VSTO add-ins and Microsoft Office Add-ins extend the same Office apps in opposite ways. This guide compares architecture, deployment, security, performance limits and Office.js feature depth, explains why the new Outlook and the Exchange Web Services retirement put a deadline on Outlook VSTO add-ins, and sets out when to keep VSTO, when to switch and how to migrate.
AI coding assistants now write a large share of committed code, and the incidents are real: a production database deleted in nine seconds, prompt injection that switched off approvals, and hallucinated packages waiting to be registered. This guide sets out the permissions, sandboxes, secrets handling, dependency checks, review gates and phased rollout that make AI coding safe in large software projects.
Clients now review software with AI assistants before they sign it off. A SCAND case study published on 10 September 2026 put acceptance at about 14% of project effort across five review rounds. We explain what changed, how to price project acceptance, what evidence to hand over and how to write review limits into the contract.
Grok Build is SpaceXAI’s terminal coding agent, and using it well is mostly a matter of knowing which parts to switch on before you let it near a repository. It installs with a single line, authenticates through your X account, runs on Grok 4.6 by default, and will read files, edit them, run shell commands […]
Debian’s developers have voted down a proposal to ban AI-generated code, adopting Marc Haber’s “Responsible Use of Generative AI” position instead. The outright ban failed its 3:1 supermajority at 0.560, with 425 of 1,045 eligible developers voting in General Resolution 2026-002. This analysis covers the eight ballot options, the full vote numbers, how Debian now compares with Gentoo, NetBSD, QEMU, Fedora and the Linux kernel, why enforcement and copyright arguments sank the ban, and what the decision means for contributors and for businesses running Debian-based systems.
A digital twin is easy to demo and hard to deliver. This guide breaks down the five layers underneath every twin, what Azure, AWS and NVIDIA actually charge at published list prices, which standards are worth adopting, a six-step build roadmap, and a realistic five-year cost model.
Field service management platforms have reached functional parity, so the software can no longer be your advantage. Here is the build-vs-buy split that works: buy the commodity core, build the two or three capabilities that encode how your business actually wins, and engineer the seam between them properly.
AI agents from Apple, Google, OpenAI and Anthropic can now act inside mobile apps on a user’s behalf — discovering functionality, completing tasks and even paying. This guide explains the four routes agents take into your app, what agentic commerce protocols mean for checkout, the five signs an app is not ready, and a practical 90-day readiness checklist for app owners.
A spreadsheet has become a system and someone has to decide: build the replacement on Microsoft’s low-code platform or commission software you own outright. This guide puts real UK figures on both routes — the full Power Apps licence bill including Dataverse storage and premium connectors, custom build costs at current day rates, the delegation and request-limit ceilings that surface after the demo, a 40-user worked example (£44,676 vs £80,136 over three years), and the seat-count crossover calculation that tells you when the answer flips.
The server is end-of-life, the developer who understood the system has retired, and the quote range spans £20,000 to £400,000. This guide puts real UK numbers on the three ways out: rebuild from scratch, replatform onto modern hosting, or replace with an off-the-shelf product. It covers the price bands per route, the day rates behind them, a 40-person worked example priced three ways (£40,680 vs £70,400 vs £136,455 over three years), the five hidden costs estimates miss, and a decision framework for choosing — plus six ways to cut the bill.
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