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Pricing, layoffs, deals and court cases in enterprise software, read for what they change in your contract.

Software business desk · 118 stories since 8 September 2026 · 17 in the last seven days · latest 5 Nov, 11:31 · 81 outlets cited · Standards

Broadcom's VMware cut thousands of resellers and pushed pricier bundles. Now it sells cheaper small-server software through distributors.

The product, vSphere Express, runs on up to 128 processor cores and can move running virtual machines between servers, The Register reported on 4 November.

Software business · 11:31 · via The Register · Photo: Coolcaesar/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0

Salesforce said Coworker had more than 185,000 users. CIOs still need savings evidence Salesforce has not supplied.

Software business · 08:30 · via Salesforce · Photo: InvadingInvader/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Canva told 1,271 staff, 22%, they face layoffs, new roles or moves. Its growth slowed for the first time in a decade.

Software business · Wed 4 Nov, 15:09 · via The Register · Photo: Diliff/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0

Microsoft and Google are not in the school platform six German states agreed to buy. Nextcloud supplies the software.

Software business · Wed 4 Nov, 12:09 · via CIO.de / dpa · Photo: Rufus46/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0

Microsoft says 8 GB Windows 11 PCs will multitask up to 40% faster. IT teams buying laptops face rising memory prices.

Software business · Wed 4 Nov, 11:29 · via The Register · Photo: Coolcaesar/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Half of Slack messages are no longer from people, Salesforce says. It counts a billion messages a day.

Software business · Wed 4 Nov, 10:49 · via Salesforce News · Photo: David Kernan/Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0

NHS England credits Palantir with helping 137 trusts. Twenty-nine say they are not using it.

Software business · Wed 4 Nov, 09:49 · via The Register · Photo: FASTILY/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Broadcom cannot see which cloud firms back an EU case against its VMware deal. A court kept their names secret.

Software business · Wed 4 Nov, 09:09 · via The Register · Photo: Coolcaesar/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0

Microsoft calendars can be an hour off after a Canadian clock change. A fix for recurring meetings has no date yet.

Software business · Tue 3 Nov, 14:29 · via The Register · Photo: Tyler Lahti/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Palantir sold $984 million to US companies last quarter, more than to the US government for the first time. Sales jumped 148%.

Software business · Tue 3 Nov, 13:49 · via SiliconANGLE · Photo: FASTILY/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

HMRC says its Salesforce system could cost up to £4.4 billion over 15 years. Its low estimate is £1.7 billion.

Software business · Tue 3 Nov, 08:20 · via The Stack · Photo: David Kernan/Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0

Capgemini raised its sales forecast to as much as 9.5% this year. It also has 5,900 fewer staff than in January.

Software business · Mon 2 Nov, 14:09 · via Capgemini · Photo: sludgegulper/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0

Amazon's AWS sales grew 39% to almost $46 billion. Amazon's free cash flow was minus $42.4 billion over 12 months.

Software business · Sun 1 Nov, 14:09 · via CNBC · Photo: Tedder/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Microsoft's browser update left some New Outlook users unable to open email attachments. Classic Outlook, which Microsoft is phasing out, kept working.

Software business · Sun 1 Nov, 08:29 · via The Register · Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Wikimedia, Public domain

Salesforce won a 10-year Army contract worth up to $5.6 billion. Now it is buying Rune, a start-up the Army already uses.

Software business · Sat 31 Oct, 12:29 · via Salesforce newsroom · Photo: David Kernan/Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0

Microsoft is borrowing at least $25 billion, Bloomberg reported. Its CFO says cloud demand still exceeds what Microsoft can supply.

Software business · Fri 30 Oct, 11:15 · via The Next Web · Photo: Wikimedia, public domain

Britain's defence ministry paid Palantir £282 million in ten years, the FT found. Its published contracts showed £95.9 million.

Software business · Fri 30 Oct, 11:09 · via Tech Digest / Financial Times · Photo: Denny J/Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0

McKinsey, BCG and Bain will pay US MBA hires $200,000, offer letters show. The same report says project teams are getting leaner.

Software business · Thu 29 Oct, 16:49 · via Bloomberg News · Photo: Jerry Michalski/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0

Microsoft says Canada Goose cut its month-end close to five days from eight. It had used old software and Excel.

Software business · Thu 29 Oct, 14:09 · via Microsoft customer story · Photo: Quintin Soloviev/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Google Cloud's sales doubled to $30.7 billion in a quarter. Alphabet's profit still fell to $26.2 billion from $35 billion.

Software business · Thu 29 Oct, 12:09 · via SiliconANGLE · Photo: Ardo191 at English Wikipedia/Wikimedia, Public domain

Amazon's CEO said AWS capacity for next year is largely sold. He said Amazon struggles to keep pace.

Software business · Tue 27 Oct, 16:49 · via Reuters · Photo: Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA/Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0

Warwickshire approved a Microsoft renewal worth about £9m in principle. It still has to find the extra £375,000 a year.

Software business · Tue 27 Oct, 15:09 · via Computer Weekly · Photo: Richard Kelly/Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0

Tesco wants to move its stores off VMware, a job ad shows. It is suing VMware to keep support for its licences.

Software business · Tue 27 Oct, 10:49 · via The Stack · Photo: David Jones from Isle of Wight/Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0

Zoom bought enterprise-search firm Onyx. It says self-hosting will stay.

Software business · Mon 26 Oct, 15:28 · via Zoom

MPs asked Britain to drop Palantir from NHS data work. Ministers offered a review that could end in a two-year extension.

Software business · Sun 25 Oct, 11:49 · via The Register · Photo: Lewis Clarke/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0

TCS entered 284 workers in the US H-1B visa lottery, down from 5,955. Infosys and Cognizant also cut their entries.

Software business · Sat 24 Oct, 15:09 · via The American Bazaar · Photo: Aashijo/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Infosys signed $5.2 billion in large deals and cut its full-year growth forecast. Its results release gave no reason.

Software business · Sat 24 Oct, 14:09 · via Infosys · Photo: Priyanshu17/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Microsoft dropped Publisher this month, and Word cannot open its files directly. Updates start removing it from some Microsoft 365 PCs mid-November.

Software business · Sat 24 Oct, 10:09 · via The Register · Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Wikimedia, Public domain

Deloitte Australia cut about 170 jobs. It is hiring over 500 for client outsourcing.

Software business · Thu 22 Oct, 16:09 · via Australian Financial Review · Photo: Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine/Wikimedia, CC0

Google Cloud lost one London zone. HSBC users reported problems.

Software business · Thu 22 Oct, 15:29 · via The Register · Photo: The wub/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Microsoft added new controls for European cloud customers. A Gartner analyst said he "would not call this complete control."

Software business · Thu 22 Oct, 13:29 · via CIO.com · Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Wikimedia, Public domain

Salesforce offered $47.50 a share for Braze. Before the news, Braze closed at $30.04.

Software business · Wed 21 Oct, 11:29 · via Salesforce · Photo: Jeffrey Hayes/Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0

Broadcom agreed a 10-year VMware deal with NTT DOCOMO. It disclosed no price.

Software business · Tue 20 Oct, 12:09 · via Broadcom release via GlobeNewswire · Photo: Coolcaesar/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0

ValueLicensing sued Microsoft for £270m. A court refused Microsoft's bid to appeal.

Software business · Tue 20 Oct, 11:29 · via The Register · Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain

Microsoft quit Nscale's UK data centre. Power may not arrive until the 2030s.

Software business · Mon 19 Oct, 16:49 · via The Register · Photo: Wikimedia Commons, public domain

Accenture is exploring a China sale worth up to $1.5 billion. Buyers came unasked.

Software business · Mon 19 Oct, 16:09 · via Financial Times via FINCHANNEL · Photo: Wistula/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

UK police built a Salesforce chatbot. A contact costs 27p, versus £7.80 for staff.

Software business · Sun 18 Oct, 09:09 · via diginomica

Microsoft's software has about 20 million UK users. Britain's watchdog proposed a special status.

Software business · Sat 17 Oct, 14:49 · via CMA (gov.uk) and The Register · Photo: othree/Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0

Wipro's staff fell by 6,716 in three months. Its services revenue held flat.

Software business · Sat 17 Oct, 11:09 · via BusinessToday and People Matters

Some VMware customers reported quotes up 1,500%. 90% of CIOs polled weigh alternatives.

Software business · Sat 17 Oct, 10:29 · via CIO.com · Photo: Coolcaesar/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0

HMRC signed Salesforce for up to £2 billion. Its first estimate was £1 billion.

Software business · Fri 16 Oct, 14:49 · via Salesforce

AWS and Google's lobby priced EU cloud rules at €115bn. Brussels estimated €18bn.

Software business · Thu 15 Oct, 12:09 · via The Register · Photo: Ank Kumar/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Kroger plans to cut 3,000 of its 8,200 office jobs. Its CEO cited technology.

Software business · Tue 13 Oct, 15:09 · via Reuters

Deloitte judged backdated papers 'adequate', BBC says. $672m of Abramovich's assets left the books.

Software business · Tue 13 Oct, 14:09 · via BBC Panorama and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism · Photo: NicosiaEurope/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0

Microsoft's change broke the Exchange admin console. SharePoint failed that way in September.

Software business · Tue 13 Oct, 12:09 · via The Register

Microsoft promised $100m for its Africa engineering centre. Staff say Nairobi's is closing.

Software business · Tue 13 Oct, 11:29 · via Techweez

HPE says most network tickets need no human. In three years, only hardware will.

Software business · Mon 12 Oct, 09:49 · via The Register

EY's Americas revenue rose 4.2% last year. Its Americas staff fell 4.9%.

Software business · Sun 11 Oct, 14:29 · via EY global results release (EY newsroom · Photo: Warren LeMay/Wikimedia, CC0

A drone fire halted a Yandex cloud data centre. Yandex gave no restart date.

Software business · Sat 10 Oct, 14:29 · via The Register

Microsoft 365 families will lose up to 4 TB. Microsoft calls it flexible.

Software business · Sat 10 Oct, 11:29 · via The Register (Brandon Vigliarolo)

Samsung expects $80bn quarterly profit. PCs may cost up to 12% more.

Software business · Fri 9 Oct, 16:09 · via The Register (Dan Robinson)

Washington barred Microsoft, Infosys and six others from green-card sponsorship. Pending cases stopped too.

Software business · Fri 9 Oct, 10:50 · via Newsweek (Dan Gooding) · Photo: US Department of Labor/Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0

IBM sold the contracts of hundreds of VMware customers. It did not answer questions.

Software business · Fri 9 Oct, 09:49 · via The Register (Simon Sharwood)

Broadcom raised VMware prices. Nine in ten surveyed customers said they weigh alternatives.

Software business · Thu 8 Oct, 10:29 · via The Register (Lindsay Clark)

Microsoft 365 reached 5,000 Dutch tax staff. Then the government stopped the move.

Software business · Thu 8 Oct, 09:09 · via The Register (Richard Speed) · Photo: Choinowski/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Paramount bought Warner Bros for $110bn. Now it plans to cut $6bn in costs.

Software business · Wed 7 Oct, 16:09 · via CBS News (Mary Cunningham) · Photo: Coolcaesar/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Google signed for 890 megawatts from 11 old nuclear plants. Nobody builds new ones.

Software business · Wed 7 Oct, 15:09 · via Google/Constellation announcement 6 October 2026; The Register (Tobias Mann) · Photo: Bill Tracey, w:Flickr user iluvcocacola/Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0

Schneider Electric agreed to pay $22.6bn for PTC. Its shares fell over 9%.

Software business · Wed 7 Oct, 14:09 · via Euronews · Photo: Wilmotte & associés architectes/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Denmark's population register exposed 8.8 million people. Denmark has 6 million residents.

Software business · Wed 7 Oct, 12:29 · via The Register (Jude Karabus)

Games Workshop hoped for new finance software in 2020. Its old systems still run.

Software business · Wed 7 Oct, 10:29 · via The Register (Lindsay Clark)

HubSpot's revenue rose 20% last quarter. Now it is cutting nearly 660 jobs.

Software business · Wed 7 Oct, 09:09 · via HubSpot 8-K (CEO memo · Photo: JOSHBLY/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Alaska's payroll costs $10 million a year. It wants a contractor for $4 million.

Software business · Tue 6 Oct, 16:09 · via Alaska Beacon (James Brooks) · Photo: James Brooks/Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0

KPMG offered staff facing cuts an extra £100 for confidentiality. Partners averaged £880,000.

Software business · Tue 6 Oct, 15:29 · via The Register (Paul Kunert · Photo: Chris McKenna/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0

The US Navy spent $754 million upgrading a cruiser. It is being scrapped.

Software business · Tue 6 Oct, 14:49 · via Baird Maritime (Will Xavier) · Photo: U.S. Navy / Michael San, Wikimedia, Public domain

Sainsbury's held merger talks with Morrisons. Together they sell 23.6% of Britain's groceries.

Software business · Tue 6 Oct, 09:09 · via Sky News (first report) and City A.M. (Felix Armstrong)

Capita took over 1.7 million civil service pensions. Ministers plan to take them back.

Software business · Mon 5 Oct, 15:09 · via BBC News (BBC Surrey) · Photo: Steph Gray/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0

BT will spend £400m saving TalkTalk. A quarter is TalkTalk's debt to BT.

Software business · Mon 5 Oct, 14:09 · via BBC News (Mitchell Labiak) · Photo: Andy Mabbett/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

New Jersey picked an E-ZPass bid $251 million dearer. Its rival went to court.

Software business · Mon 5 Oct, 11:29 · via Jersey Vindicator · Photo: Acroterion/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Coca-Cola gave up selling Costa in February. Its cafés just turned a £20m profit.

Software business · Mon 5 Oct, 10:09 · via The Guardian (Sarah Butler)

Ikea opened a Washington store last November. It closes on 18 October.

Software business · Sun 4 Oct, 16:09 · via Retail Dive (Caroline Jansen)

Amazon pledged $1 billion to data-centre towns. Over 100 local bans are being weighed.

Software business · Sun 4 Oct, 14:09 · via Associated Press (Anne D'Innocenzio) · Photo: Tedder/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Microsoft started blocking a mailbox link apps used since 2007. No exceptions from April.

Software business · Sun 4 Oct, 11:29 · via The Register · Photo: Coolcaesar/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

BT cut broadband for customers ignoring its landline switch. Over 80% then signed up.

Software business · Sun 4 Oct, 10:29 · via The Guardian · Photo: Tilman2007/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Accenture spent $923 million mostly on severance. Its headcount still rose to 814,000.

Software business · Sun 4 Oct, 09:08 · via Accenture fiscal 2026 results release / Form 8-K exhibit · Photo: BLM Platinum/Wikimedia, Public domain

Rivian delivered a record 19,248 cars. An automated station under-tightened 14 battery packs.

Software business · Sat 3 Oct, 16:09 · via TechCrunch (Sean O'Kane)

ANZ is dropping KPMG after 57 years. It says that is too long.

Software business · Sat 3 Oct, 15:09 · via AAP (Derek Rose) and Capital Brief (Jassmyn Goh)

Raspberry Pi sold its 2 GB Pi 4 for $35. It now costs $67.50.

Software business · Sat 3 Oct, 13:08 · via The Register

Tesla delivered 2% fewer cars than a year ago. It beat Wall Street's forecast.

Software business · Sat 3 Oct, 11:48 · via Electrek

Nike's China sales fell 26% in a quarter. Its profit still beat forecasts.

Software business · Fri 2 Oct, 16:08 · via Investing.com earnings call transcript · Photo: Coolcaesar/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Lyft will pay $272.5 million over how it classed drivers. Uber faces similar claims.

Software business · Fri 2 Oct, 15:08 · via TechCrunch (Kirsten Korosec)

McKinsey said 11 million US workers may need new careers by 2035.

Software business · Fri 2 Oct, 14:08 · via CNN Business (Alicia Wallace)

FedEx took 53 electric trucks from Harbinger. Then it ordered 2,000 for $300 million.

Software business · Fri 2 Oct, 09:09 · via Bloomberg via TechCrunch

Tesla lined up $30 billion of credit. Its spending nearly triples this year.

Software business · Thu 1 Oct, 15:09 · via Electrek / Tesla 8-K · Photo: Michael Wolf/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0

Meta hired MongoDB's CEO on Monday. MongoDB's shares fell 19%.

Software business · Tue 29 Sept, 10:29 · via MongoDB press release; 24/7 Wall St.; PYMNTS

Meta, YouTube, TikTok and X refused ads for a Musk documentary. Two reversed.

Software business · Mon 28 Sept, 12:09 · via TechCrunch

Monzo entered sale talks with Nubank at up to £10 billion.

Software business · Sun 27 Sept, 17:49 · via Sky News via Yahoo Finance

Post Office lawyers were paid or promised over £330m. Police got £8.5m this year.

Software business · Sun 27 Sept, 16:28 · via Computer Weekly

Cisco's CEO said firms could perhaps run with 20% fewer people. He prefers growth.

Software business · Sun 27 Sept, 13:28 · via Inc. interview via Fortune · Photo: Travis Wise/Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0

Tesla's driver-assist software sped in 55% of Brussels 30 km/h zones tested.

Software business · Sun 27 Sept, 10:48 · via Electrek

ByteDance rented one fifth of all Chinese data centre capacity.

Software business · Sat 26 Sept, 18:29 · via SemiAnalysis

UiPath bots cut errors on medical bills from 7% to 3%.

Software business · Sat 26 Sept, 17:48 · via diginomica

Samsung and Apple were named winners. Sub-$200 phones may lose 230 million a year.

Software business · Fri 25 Sept, 16:09 · via The Register

Starbucks picked Chennai for its first India office, with 800 jobs planned.

Software business · Thu 24 Sept, 21:08 · via ANI

An NHS trust cannot say who opened 11 years of maternity records.

Software business · Thu 24 Sept, 11:08 · via The Register

Microsoft put 20.5 billion dollars into India. Its newest data centre needs no water.

Software business · Wed 23 Sept, 18:08 · via Microsoft News Center Asia

A Texas woman counted 52 Amazon drones overhead in one day.

Software business · Wed 23 Sept, 15:08 · via The New York Times / DroneXL

Salesforce software settled half of Dr Martens' contacts. Before, people did nine in ten.

Software business · Wed 23 Sept, 14:08 · via diginomica · Photo: Bohemian Baltimore/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Tesla wants 50,000 dollars up front. The price is still unknown.

Software business · Wed 23 Sept, 12:08 · via Yahoo Finance · Photo: Smnt/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Ireland fined Google 403 million euros for storing location data.

Software business · Wed 23 Sept, 09:09 · via Data Protection Commission / RTÉ · Photo: Grendelkhan/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Apple agreed to pay iPhone buyers about $25 each for Siri's delay.

Software business · Mon 21 Sept, 15:09 · via MacRumors · Photo: Daniel L. Lu (user:dllu)/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Amazon's shopping bot may bury US-made goods, two senators told the FTC.

Software business · Mon 21 Sept, 10:06 · via Reuters · Photo: Winnebaggo/Wikimedia, CC0

Palantir's £330m NHS contract can be cancelled in February.

Software business · Sun 20 Sept, 09:06 · via The Register

Broadcom raised VMware prices by 10x or more, European cloud providers say.

Software business · Thu 17 Sept, 14:06 · via CIO

Salesforce went down worldwide during its own Dreamforce. Full recovery took nearly 11 hours.

Software business · Thu 17 Sept, 09:06 · via The Register and CIO · Photo: F. Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0

Researchers broke Intel and AMD memory protections with a $200 board.

Software business · Wed 16 Sept, 17:06 · via The Register

Florida says one police department login let attackers download driver records.

Software business · Sun 13 Sept, 18:06 · via BleepingComputer · Photo: The Bushranger/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

An AT&T store worker swapped customers' SIMs for cash. One victim lost $99,528.

Software business · Sat 12 Sept, 18:06 · via The Register

A German regulator tested Meta's glasses. The recording light does not always come on.

Software business · Sat 12 Sept, 16:06 · via Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information

The Pentagon opened talks to lend $5 billion to one startup.

Software business · Sat 12 Sept, 14:06 · via The Wall Street Journal via Reuters · Photo: Johnny Bivera/US Navy, Public domain

Microsoft scheduled Project Online's retirement; it arrives in 19 days.

Software business · Fri 11 Sept, 18:06 · via The Register

Fujitsu joined three UK contract frameworks during its own bidding ban.

Software business · Fri 11 Sept, 15:06 · via The Register

Google bought up to half a nuclear plant's output until 2049.

Software business · Fri 11 Sept, 12:06 · via The Register

VMware pulled the toolkit rivals used to move customers off it. Without notice.

Software business · Thu 10 Sept, 16:06 · via The Register · Photo: BrokenSphere/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0

Capgemini asked 1,300 executives about leaving a critical supplier. 10% have no alternative.

Software business · Wed 9 Sept, 18:08 · via diginomica.com

Your cutover plan forgot the 47-tab spreadsheet.

Software business · Tue 8 Sept, 18:06

Asda budgeted £800m. The bill came to £1,224m.

Software business · Tue 8 Sept, 16:06 · via The Register

Server prices up 125%. Lead times reaching 18 months.

Software business · Tue 8 Sept, 12:06 · via CIO

£19m budgeted. £216.5m lost.

Software business · Tue 8 Sept, 10:06 · via The Register