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Techie couldn’t help but be a little blunt when the support call came in – but has no regrets!

ON CALL Welcome to another edition of On Call, The Register’s reader-contributed Friday column in which you share your stories of troublesome tech support incidents.

This week, meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Cooper” who told us that his employer uses an MS Word document to record incoming orders.

“It includes a table with two columns: the left column contains a description of the data to be entered in the right column - things like product, SKU, quantity, customer name,” Cooper explained. “Our sales team uses it to record new orders, then our fulfillment team reviews, validates, and submits for delivery.”

Cooper knows this is an archaic approach, but his employer has used this document for ages and doesn’t want to change.

“This means we do a lot...

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The US says ASML’s top chip tool may be in China. ASML says it isn’t

According to Bloomberg, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has, in a series of recent meetings, told senior ASML executives he’s concerned that one of the Dutch chipmaker’s extreme ultraviolet lithography machines — the EUV systems that are the only tools on Earth capable of printing the most advanced

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The APIisation of logistics is making India’s supply chain programmable

Use of HMRC's taxing IR35 status tool drops 71% in two years

Nutanix's Tech Day London 2026 offers infrastructure insights

The US says ASML’s top chip tool may be in China. ASML says it isn’t