Open-source Linux doesn’t pay, said no one ever at Red Hat
Red Hat’s sales jumped 14 per cent, year-on-year, in the quarter that ended May 31, thanks to contracts with government and cloud providers.
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Microsoft has a very big problem
It seems Microsoft has failed to make a dent in Google’s and Apple’s dominance of the smartphone market. A report out today from comScore suggests Windows phone has lost over…
HMRC ditches Microsoft in favour of Google Apps
Her Majetsy’s Revenues and Customs (HMRC) has become the first major government department to dump Microsoft in favour of Google.
Microsoft faces claims it threatened MPs with job cuts in constituencies
Microsoft executives telephoned Conservative MPs threatening to shut down a facility in their local area because of planned IT reforms, David Cameron’s former strategy chief has claimed.
Pens And Paper Are Holding Your Kids Back, Says Microsoft
Lia De Cicco Remu, the director of Partners in Learning at Microsoft Canada, believes pencils, paper, and chalkboards are all outdated methods of teaching. If De Cicco Remu has her…
HP has another go at low-cost Linux laptops
HP is having another go at selling Linux-based laptops with a new line of low-cost notebooks based on Ubuntu Linux, which it will sell in the UK via online retail…
Tech More: Microsoft Office Office 365 Microsoft’s new love of subscriptions could bring in up to 80% more revenue per customer
There’s one very good reason that Microsoft is so keen to get customers on board with its Microsoft Office 365 subscription service. Companies that go with Office 365 are more…
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday fixes 46 flaws in Windows, IE, Office, and more
Fourteen critical vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer were among the targets of Microsoft’s monthly batch of security patches released Tuesday. In all, it fixed 46 vulnerabilities across products including Windows, Internet…
Microsoft Looks to Software Subscriptions as Mobile Computing Spreads
Microsoft hopes free upgrades of Windows 10 will attract customers and lead to subscriptions with recurring revenue.
Ubuntu jumps into Internet of Things with Acer, GE, and Microsoft
Old enemies are becoming new allies as technology shifts from the PC/desktop model to first mobile computing and now the Internet of Things (IoT). Canonical, Ubuntu Linux’s parent company, is…
Microsoft points PowerShell at Penguinistas
In yet another sign that Microsoft is a very different animal these days, the company has released PowerShell DSC (desired state configuration) for Linux. PowerShell DSC is a server configuration…
Microsoft’s secret weapon in browser wars: Mozilla’s supercharged Asm.js
Microsoft has included a surprise feature in its new Edge web browser for Windows 10, in the form of support for the ultra-optimizable Asm.js JavaScript dialect. First developed by Mozilla…
Even Uncle Sam admits: US patent law is whack
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is calling on the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) to overhaul its rules on licensing intellectual property.
Good luck displacing Windows 7, Microsoft, it’s still growing
Windows 7’s dominance of the desktop shows why Microsoft will make users of the OS its first migration target for Windows 10 upgrades. But with Windows 7 still growing, will…
Microsoft now has a code editor for Mac and Linux: Visual Studio Code
Today at Build, Microsoft unveiled its first version of Visual Studio for Mac and Linux. The new tool, called Visual Studio Code, makes it easy to develop .NET code along…