Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Israel is a small country with a thriving security startup industry, and Microsoft appears to be have a taste for them. Today it announced an agreement to buy Secure Islands,…

Microsoft just inked a new deal with longtime rival Red Hat to support the company’s version of Linux on Microsoft’s cloud service Azure.

Microsoft’s changes to its OneDrive personal cloud storage prices reflect badly on the company, and have left users angry and bewildered. The cost of storage continues to fall; but Microsoft…

Chinese UAV outfit DJI is trumpeting the release of what it describes as the “most powerful computer designed for drones” – the “Manifold” embedded computer packing a quad-core ARM Cortex…

Speaking to PC World, Microsoft Corporate Vice President Joe Belfiore explained that Windows 10 is constantly tracking how it operates and how you are using it and sending that information…

Just over a year after it started offering unlimited OneDrive cloud storage for Office 365 subscribers, Microsoft is going back on the deal.

Two chaps claim to have discovered how to trivially circumvent Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) using Redmond’s own compatibility tools.

Microsoft will begin automatically upgrading some users to the latest version of its Windows software, the firm has revealed.   The firm said early next year it will begin automatically downloading…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella apparently has a voracious appetite for Israeli cybersecurity firms.  The tech giant acquired Aorato, an Israeli application firewall startup, for a reported $200 million in November…

Microsoft today doesn’t care what OS you use just so long as you are using it on Microsoft’s cloud, Azure. Either way is money in Microsoft’s pocket. And one-quarter of…

Linux clusters built from Facebook’s blueprints will help crunch numbers for the US government’s hydrogen bomb scientists.  The computer system, dubbed the Tundra Extreme Scale series, will cost $39m, and…

Microsoft has a new trick to convince Windows 10 users to stick with its new Edge browser over Chrome or Firefox. In a newly leaked Windows 10 preview (build 10568),…

Have you noticed Microsoft being a little too eager in pushing its Windows 10 upgrade lately?  You’re not alone.  Some of our readers tell us the updates have gone so…

We’ve all become used to the idea of ads online — it’s something that has become part and parcel of using the internet — but in Windows? If you’ve updated…

Microsoft has launched a promotion called Easy Trade Up designed to get people to switch to new Windows 10 machines. If you buy a qualifying computer from the Microsoft Store…