Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Apple has taken its turn at the hammer, and added its own i-Nail to the coffin of Flash.  Over at the Webkit blog, Ricky Mondello of the Safari team writes…

Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE: LNKD) on Monday announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire LinkedIn for $196 per share in…

Microsoft has created its own cut of FreeBSD 10.3 in order to make the OS available and supported in Azure.  Jason Anderson, principal PM manager at Microsoft’s Open Source Technology…

Researchers at Dell SecureWorks have spotted a new and dangerous way to misuse of Microsoft’s Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS).

Microsoft has issued fixes to its last round of Windows Server Management Pack fixes, but is asking you to help it understand if the new fixes fix the messes the…

Microsoft has u-turned over changes it made to a pop-up encouraging users to upgrade to Windows 10.  Users were angry that clicking the cross to dismiss the box meant that…

It seems that Microsoft is reconsidering its flirtation with phone hardware, which started when it purchased Nokia’s phone division three years ago for $7.1 billion. That deal saw 32,000 Nokia…

Firefox has gingerly pulled ahead of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Edge browsers for the first time across the globe. Mozilla’s Firefox grabbed 15.6 percent of worldwide desktop browser usage in…

Following on last year’s bold announcement that they will attempt to migrate from proprietary Microsoft Office products to an open-source alternative like LibreOffice, Italy’s Ministry of Defense now expects to…

There’s 15 flaw fixes covering 36 vulnerabilities in this month’s patch bundle from Microsoft.  Microsoft’s browsers need a lot of work – Internet Explorer gets five fixes and the new…

A recent Windows 7 update partially bricks computers that have an Asus motherboard fitted, it emerged this week.

The Cortana search box in the Windows 10 task bar will, from today, always use Bing and Microsoft’s Edge browser to find stuff on the web.  You can still configure…

Google has updated the Gmail client on Android so that every Android device running the app will support Microsoft Exchange (reports VentureBeat and others).

The long-running feud between tech giants Microsoft and Google has finally been settled.  They have agreed to drop all regulatory complaints filed against each other, vowing to thrash out their…

Beating Google at the search game is part of the master plan of giving Windows 10 away for free. Many of Bing’s services are baked into Windows 10, including search…