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Are we in a cost of technology crisis? Our vultures seem to think so

(2024/04/17)


Kettle The price of everything is going up because corporations gotta corp and produce record profits year after year. That means you and I are expected to cough up more.

If it's not Microsoft [1]hiking subscriptions, or bulking them up [2]with AI , or slipping ads [3]into Windows , it's Broadcom [4]adding zeroes to IT orgs' annual costs.

For this latest episode of [5]Kettle , in which our vultures speak their brains on the week's news, our Asia-Pacific editor Simon Sharwood is joined by our systems editor Tobias Mann, our editor Chris Williams, and your host Iain Thomson.

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[7]Youtube Video

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You can watch above, or listen via: [9]RSS and MP3 , [10]Apple , [11]Amazon , and [12]Spotify . With lots of food for thought, feel free to add your own views in the forum below. ®

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[1] https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/15/dynamics_365_price_rises/

[2] https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/18/microsoft_copilot_moneymaker/

[3] https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/15/microsoft_recommendations_windows_11/

[4] https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/08/broadcom_vmware_civo/

[5] https://www.theregister.com/Tag/Kettle

[6] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_offprem/saas&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2ZiBGeegU2Hv5oW@iE3HcmQAAAI0&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0

[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LJopISWIHc&t=1s

[8] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_offprem/saas&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44ZiBGeegU2Hv5oW@iE3HcmQAAAI0&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0

[9] https://feeds.simplecast.com/Vnvf8Fkd

[10] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-register-kettle/id1713589041

[11] https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/fe62a659-3451-496b-b064-f30744c2ad65/the-register-kettle

[12] https://open.spotify.com/show/3SkH00VOX02KYNaAbYzajj

[13] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/



Thank You!! for a captioned service

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Thank You!! for a captioned service (YouTube). My dogs doze quietly when there are no strange voices in the house. No ear-strain for me.

New viewer tips: "c" to start/stop Captions. Yes the scroll is janky. Non-California speech patterns befuddle the tiny brain. Caption options are in the Sprocket (not in [CC] like you would expect). It does seem to translate to dozens of languages beyond UK/AUS/US English; even Esperanto; I assume the translations get screwier the further you get from Silicon Valley. Deep inside Subtitles, Options you can pick font color and size. Before that you need to *drag* the subtitles away from lower left where Creators always introduce guests.

I recognize that YouTube is a political choice for some; also their ads recently overwhelmed my ad-defense. (UB origin plus an ancient creator account). I expect there will be to-and-fro opinions. That's mine.

PRR

And to stick to the topic: I just paid $16 for sandwiches that were $8-$9 four years ago. In the IT world I see anything faster than a Celeron (Atom, N100...) is a lot more money. Oddly the price of a new Toyota came way down over 15 months (buy high sell low I always say).

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