Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

The Precision line of Dell’s one-time skunkworks Ubuntu developer PCs, Project Sputnik, has hit worldwide availability.

Nearly two decades after calling Linux a “cancer” Steve Ballmer has changed his stance, though he’s been careful not to back down or apologise over his pronouncements of the past.

Microsoft buried a Get Windows 10 ad generator inside this month’s Internet Explorer security patch for Windows 7 and 8.1.

Put down your coffee gently. Microsoft has today released a homegrown open-source operating system, based on Debian GNU/Linux, that runs on network switches.

Microsoft has published the March edition of its monthly security updates, addressing security flaws in Internet Explorer, Edge and Windows, while Adobe has issued updates for Digital Editions, Acrobat and…

The new Microsoft has placed an increased importance on the cloud, and with other companies following suit, reliance on server solutions has increased.  Today the company announces that it is…

Retro-gamers rejoice! Cautiously. The multi arcade machine emulator (MAME) is now open source.

The founder of Epic Games says that Microsoft is trying to lock Windows developers into using its app store for all their products.  Tim Sweeney reckons the Universal Windows Platform…

A new filing (PDF) scooped up by the good folks at Groklaw sees both SCO and IBM agree to sign off on two recent decisions in which SCO’s arguments advancing…

Linux users are piling on Microsoft after the long-neglected Skype client on the open-source OS suddenly lost the ability to join calls from other versions of the software.

FireEye security wonks Abdulellah Alsaheel and Raghav Pande have twisted the barrels of Microsoft’s lauded EMET Windows defence gun 180 degrees and fired.  The result of their research is p0wnage…

Intel is showing what it calls “Big Screen Experience” at Mobile World Congress, an Android smartphone which runs a full Linux desktop when plugged into an external display.  The concept…

Put simply, this is all about artificial intelligence. The seemingly clairvoyant nature of SwiftKey when it comes to typing prediction can be readily implemented into a world of other use…

The Russian government says it is looking to dump Microsoft and adopt Linux as the operating system for agency PCs.

Over the weekend, I received fresh complaints from a number of OneDrive and Office 365 users that their storage limits had been capped at one terabyte — despite Microsoft promises…