Steve Jobs, MS Office, Israel, and a basic feature Microsoft took 13 years to install [Wed Mar 16 2016]

The Register Daily Headlines 16 March 2016 Check out our other feeds and services: Business News * Former Nokia boss Stephen Elop scores gig as chief innovator for Australia's top telco Apparently posesses 'innate sense of customer expectations' * Oracle made slightly less money last quarter, and America is to blame Quick summary: 'Something something cloud, something something constant currency, something something we're still rich' * Posh frockers Lord & Taylor spanked after Instagram fillies shocker Store paid people to pose with dress, never disclosed fact * Michigan shooter says 'mind controlling' Uber app told him to kill Ride-sharing has been blamed for a lot of things, but this is a first * UK draft super-spy law 'not fit for purpose,' say 100s of senior lawyers IPB: Open letter criticizes UK government for pushing bill that fails to meet standards * F-me! Couchbase yoinks $30m in yet another fundraising round We are about to IPO, I think, this time we will, I'm sure of it, says CEO Wiederhold * Private Dell mostly makes PCs - and its sales of those are down Operating income down almost a third * Swedish publishers plan summer `Block Party' to thwart ad blockers Blocking the blockers. Insert obvious pun here * Labour will create FUD and then abstain on UK Snoopers' Charter vote IPB: Opposition? We are no such thing, how very dare you * Police use of illegally held biometrics broke the law, says commish Biometrics overseer told Home Office about it in mid-2015 - and nothing was done * Oops! Microsoft says its 'Bitcoin ban' was a bug, not a feature Some twit put the wrong thing on the web and - silly us! - we took it at face value * Dell plans sale of non-core assets to reduce EMC buy debt SEC filing warns of weak PC business, tax risk of new stock and reveals executive pay Data Centre News * SanDisk stockholders book a table, prepare for Western Digital gobble We're today's special on the menu, say investors * DataGravity axes gear, sheds staff as it pulls away from black hole +Comment: Bye-bye hardware and hello big vision * Judging by these numbers, Dell can't wait for EMC to turn up and unload its storage Single figure per cent drops show need for fillip * AT&T: Three-quarters of our network is going virtual, and we're open-sourcing the tools Ma Bell pushes out whitepaper on ECOMP tools it uses for SDN * Pivot3 bags $54.6m. What'll it do now? Try to take over all-flash hyperconverged world +Comment: I'm just a teenage startup, baby * Good-on-paper FlashBlade: We've seen the hardware, we've touched the blades Backstory: Are there buyers for Pure's full-rack systems? * Lenovo pulls back duvet - oh em gee, it's Maxta Duo pair up to conquer Jade kingdom's hyper-converged appliance market * AWS's grand plan: It'll slurp your databases, spit them into its cloud Meanwhile Huawei, Deutsche Telekom launch cloudy rival * Ever heard of 'multi-cloud'? Get with cool kids - it's the New Big Thing(TM) Comment: Hybrid cloud is so basic * Domo arigato, Mr ROBO: HPE hyper-converge box lunges at mid-size biz Mata au hi made * Whatever happened to Green IT? When low energy levels are a good thing DevOps News * Think you're a Jenkins expert, wise guy? You can prove it in May Cloudbees opens registration for cert program * Continuous Lifecycle: Want to get your hands dirty? Try our workshops Containers, Microservices, DevOps and CD, we've got it covered * Hollywood could learn a lot from software devs, says GitLab founder Everyone's a critic? It'll be worse when everyone's a director Hardware News * Hand in hand, TSMC, ARM head to 7nm server chip land Will work together on high-performance data center designs * Western Digital spins up a USB disk just for the Raspberry Pi 314GB drive designed to slurp less power, ships with OS bootloader * Qualcomm squints at virtual reality with Snapdragon 820 SDK Holy jiggling gyroscopes, Batman! That phone can take you to another dimension! Infrastructure News * Who watches over your data - and how do you know it won't go AWOL? You can trust your staff. Trusting their infosec knowledge, though... Networks News * Basslink mulls exit from telecomms business Cable ship costs are staggering * CK Hutchison/O2: 'Four networks' dogma risks one giant and three hopeless dwarves Analysis: What good is that? * Mars to get comms upgrade with ExoMars mission NASA radios due for in-flight test in May * Better mobe antennas a stretch goal for radiocomm boffins Signal isolation using modulation, not magnets, improves silicon-scale antennas Security News * Google adds worldwide HTTPS info to transparency report Feds want less crypto, Google wants more * Your unpatchable, insecure Android mobe will feel right at home in the Internet of Stuff era Qualcomm's broken kernel code is the tip of the iceberg * Is this Romanian man really 'GhostShell'? If so, he risks arrest Elaborate CV writing skills from man alleging hacktivist nous * Millions menaced as ransomware-smuggling ads pollute top websites msn.com, nytimes.com, aol.com et al hit by malware-injecting banners * Attackers packing malware into PowerShell It's 2016 and the macro virus is still a thing thanks to phools phalling for spear phishing * TLS isn't up to the job without better credential protection, says RFC HTTP needs to SCRAM - the Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism * Bountiful! Yahoo! Plugs! Mail! Spoofing! Bug! Want succesful-turnaround@yahoo.com? Just edit the POST in a mail Software News * Get lost, Windows 10 and Phone fans: No maps HERE on Microsoft's OS Ex-Nokia biz has a problem with Redmond * Mozilla will emit 'first version' of Servo-based Rust browser in June Initial release of engine to work on at least four websites. Success? * Steve Jobs, MS Office, Israel, and a basic feature Microsoft took 13 years to install tropeR laicepS: Right-to-Left script Mac omission finally fixed Science News * Hi-def ExoMars launch vid lacks volcanic lair vibe Impressive, but short in the Blofeld department * Watch six tiny robo-ants weighing 100g in total pull a 1,769-kg family car Video: Teamwork and sticky feet move mountains Bootnotes News * Want to kick butts? Go cold turkey Better chance of success than gradual reduction * Brits shun nightclubs and CD-ROMs for lemons, coffee and woman's leggings Mmmm, let's just stay in and have a Baileys and a choccie * Brit teen bags $250,000 in first World Drone Prix Pics and video: Full robot games on the cards Free whitepaper Web threats: Challenges and solutions Web threats employ blended techniques, an explosion of variants, and targeted regional attacks. 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