Anyone that has used a mobile in the last few years (which we'd assume is pretty much everyone reading this) will have seen an increase in being asked to allow specific permissions to each app you use as you open it for the first time. For better or worse, Microsoft is looking to introduce this approach to Windows shortly.

Enough work to pay the bills, hopefully! But beyond that, if you have been paying attention to previous blogs or IT news in general, you can't have missed that AI is massively changing how one of the core services we provide clients works. Anyone can code now, right? Well, sort of...

Our experience of using AI to assist with some of our day-to-day tasks has been pretty positive. These systems are particularly suited to helping with the "rules" based industry we belong to, especially on the code side. However, that doesn't mean there's no risks here, and those risks aren't necessarily the obvious ones...

If you're someone that uses Outlook with any frequency, you probably won't have missed the fact that Microsoft would very much like you to stop using the "Classic" version and shift to the new version. Over the next few months, this drum beat will get even louder as the date the "Classic" version is no longer supported draws closer.

AI giveth and AI taketh away. While some people are reaping the benefits of AI assistance enabling them to work more efficiently, the technology behind this is almost relentlessly hungry for various resources including computer components, and that means the supply of these for consumer devices is becoming scarce.

People never change... No matter how much IT professionals try to warn about the risks of weak passwords, it seems we just can't resist using them anyway despite the huge risks involved as more and more of our lives move online. Let's take a look at this year's top 20!

It's probably something not many of us notice these days, but almost all website addresses start "https" now. This indicates a secure connection between your browser and the website. Starting next year, Chrome will effectively force this change, which may have implications for some old internal business systems.

Many people with a 365 email account who have worked with a company for ages or frequently deal with particularly large emails will have received warnings about their quota being hit soon over the years. Microsoft have a plan to reduce the chances of that happening.