The latest in cloud, cybersecurity, AI, and web technology — curated for UK businesses every week
Microsoft 365Microsoft has suffered its fifth major cloud outage in six months, with the latest Microsoft 365 disruption knocking email, Teams and Copilot offline for more than nine hours. Here is the full 2026 outage timeline, the real cost to UK SMEs, and the 12-step resilience plan that keeps your business working when Microsoft does not.
Microsoft 365Microsoft 365 prices rise up to 33% on 1 July 2026. UK businesses have 78 days to lock in current rates by renewing early. Plus, Copilot is splitting into free and paid tiers from 15 April — here's what you lose and what you gain.
Cloud ComputingThe CMA has concluded its three-year cloud market investigation, accepting voluntary commitments from AWS and Microsoft rather than binding regulation. With 32% of cloud spend wasted and a new AWS-Google multicloud partnership lowering switching barriers, here's what UK SMEs must do now.
IT SupportUS trade tariffs are pushing up the cost of servers, networking equipment, and cloud services for UK businesses. With a 10% baseline tariff now in force and steel/aluminium at 50%, here's how to protect your IT budget.
Microsoft 365The UK Competition and Markets Authority has launched a strategic market status investigation into Microsoft's business software empire — covering Windows, Office, Teams and Copilot. Here's what every UK business needs to know.
Microsoft 365Microsoft's biggest Copilot update yet brings agent mode to every Office app, introduces GPT-5.4 models, and announces the premium E7 Frontier Suite for enterprises.
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23 Aug, 2026
AI code review has moved from novelty to default in UK development teams inside about eighteen months. Pull requests now arrive pre-annotated by a model,...
22 Aug, 2026
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21 Aug, 2026
Cyber Essentials certification has quietly become a commercial requirement rather than a security badge. It is mandatory for most central government contracts...