Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

What is Microsoft up to in this new mobile focused world? It’s a question that has vexed many. As CEO Satya Nadella’s strategy becomes clear, the mix of Windows 10…

The latest promotion provides 100GB extra storage for two years, at which time users’ accounts will revert to 15GB. They will then have to pay to add more files to…

The Linux kernel is growing and changing faster than ever, but its development is increasingly being supported by a select group of companies, rather than by volunteer developers.

Currently the Windows Media Audio format is estimated to be used by devices belonging to up to 5% of the BBC’s internet radio listeners – but it has now been…

Microsoft is set to increase the price of some of its licences by about 15 per cent in the summer.  From 1 July – the start of the vendor’s FY16…

Microsoft has both cut the price of its Surface Pro 3 and is offering up to $650 towards the purchase of the tablet-cum-laptops to customers who trade in older Microsoft…

Microsoft will double the per-PC price of support for enterprises still stuck with Windows XP systems when the anniversary of the aged OS’s retirement rolls around in April, a licensing…

One of the patches Microsoft released this month, KB2920732, has been withdrawn because it breaks PowerPoint.  The patch was billed as improving the stability of PowerPoint 2013 in a handful…

The EU Parliament has blocked politicians from using the Microsoft mobile Outlook app in the wake of security and privacy concerns centred on the siphoning of corporate credentials to a…

Microsoft is effectively killing off the Windows with Bing notebook market less than a year after it was created.

A collaboration between SUSE and Red Hat is going to bring relief to Linux users the world over: they’ll be able to patch their systems without reboots.  The live patching…

Another month, another Patch Tuesday, but this release has a special sting in the tail: a flaw in the fundamental design of Windows that’s taken a year to correct, and…

This month’s Patch Tuesday release includes three updates rated Critical, including a massive security update that fixes more than 40 flaws in Internet Explorer. A recently disclosed XSS vulnerability remains…

Microsoft has released a patch to close a bug exploited by hackers, who targeted US military and government networks.  The flaw was used to compromise Windows PCs that visited sites…

Microsoft’s part in a US$70m investment in CyanogenMod has raised many eyebrows: why is Microsoft investing in a popular version of the Android mobile phone operating system, when it has…