How to handle sales pressure and licensing 'negotiations' to make sure it plays to your advantage Feature  You might be able to tell what time of year it is by the blossom on the trees or bluebells in the woods. But for Oracle customers stuck in an office somewhere, there is another way of knowing that it's May without consulting a calendar.…

The machine was so dead, hospital staff treated it like a corpse On Call  The Register knows that tech support people are heroes. That's why each Friday we offer a new installment of On Call, our weekly reader-contributed column featuring your stories of dutifully and selflessly taking on the endless and thankless challenge that is tech support.…

Office could be decimated with around 800 offers reportedly made Microsoft is said to have offered up to 800 China-based employees the chance to relocate to the US, Australia, New Zealand, or Ireland.…

Yet another technological self-sufficiency target for China The Chinese government says the country's car manufacturers should aim for a quarter of their chips to be sourced from China-based foundries by 2025.…

Expansion set for Wuhan. Chances this will go smoothly? Chinese tech giant Baidu expects its robotaxi unit, Apollo Go, to be profitable next year.…

Spoiler alert: it's not really IT support controlling your device A cybercrime gang has been abusing Microsoft's Quick Assist application in social engineering attacks that ultimately allow the crew to infect victims with Black Basta ransomware.…