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 hiking subscriptions, or bulking them up with AI, or slipping ads into Windows, it's Broadcom adding zeroes to IT orgs' annual costs.

For this latest episode of 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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