Top IT stories this week: Skinny iPhone, litigious adulterers and Windows security flaws

Which of Computing's stories was The Daddy this week?

Here they are again, Computing's most-read stories from the past week.

7. Coats plc CIO Richard Cammish explains his growing frustration with 'legacy vendors' IBM and SAP

Cammish slams the likes of SAP and IBM, who he calls "legacy vendors", because of their complicated software licensing models.

"This is an industry issue, where companies like SAP, Oracle, IBM and to a lesser extent Microsoft may find it mildly insulting to be called legacy vendors. But to pick through their licensing model is incredibly complex," he says.

6. Microsoft warns of 'global free for all' that will destroy personal privacy

Microsoft has argued that if it is forced by US law to hand over information held on its servers overseas, other countries will follow suit - sparking a "global free for all" that will ultimately erode personal privacy.

"We would go crazy if China did this to us," Microsoft lawyer Joshua Rosenkrantz told the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York. "This is a matter of national sovereignty."

5. Why Apple’s iPad Pro is absolutely no good for the enterprise

"The iPad Pro is the biggest rip-off Apple has ever hustled, and an insult to the enterprise and productivity market it claims to be pitched at..."

Discuss.

4. HMRC offering a whopping £162,500 salary for a cloud transformation director

Are you a politically astute leader? Do you have experience of delivering £50m+ infrastructure transformation projects across complex IT systems? Can you think of innovative ways of spending an annual salary of £162,500? Then get down to HMRC pronto and pop your CV on the no doubt fast-growing pile.

3. Microsoft Patch Tuesday – five 'critical' security flaws in 12 major updates

Microsoft released 12 security updates for PCs running all supported versions of Windows this week, including five intended to fix "critical" flaws. In all, the patches were intended to fix some 56 vulnerabilities in Windows and related components, including 14 security flaws in Internet Explorer and four in Edge, the web browser that Microsoft hopes will replace IE. They also cover four flaws in Microsoft Office, including one enabling remote execution.

2. Ashley Madison users sue AWS and GoDaddy for handling stolen dating data

Your spouse may have left you, your kids are teased at school, even your dog thinks you're a disgrace, but hey there's still a chance you'll be awarded $3m award through the courts. For users of Ashley Madison, hope springs eternal.

1. iPhone 7 to be 'thinnest smartphone ever'

The iPhone 6s may have only just launched but even prior to this event the rumour machine had moved on to it's successor. Will the iPhone 7 be the thinnest ever? The world (or bits of it anyway) awaits with bated breath.

The phone may be skinny, but Apple is our heavyweight champion this week.