Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

In 2007, Dell became the first major computer OEM to sell pre-installed Linux on their computers. Today, Dell continues to support desktop Linux. In its latest move, Dell will be…

Keeping up its poor showing in AV-Test’s assessments, the free offering from Microsoft scored a zero when it came to protection.

YouTube today announced it has finally stopped using Adobe Flash by default. The site now uses its HTML5 video player by default in Google’s Chrome, Microsoft’s IE11, Apple’s Safari 8,…

Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) on Monday reported a fall in its quarterly profit that was in line with Wall Street forecasts, as sluggish personal computer sales dampened demand for Windows software…

Microsoft is planning a big push for Windows 10 and will be giving away the new operating system to Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows Phone 8 users in the…

Google has reported a local file flaw affecting Windows 7 and 8.1 32 and 64 -bit systems in the third vulnerability dropped since a spat with Microsoft erupted last week.

Each time there’s a new version of Windows, Microsoft bills it as “the best Windows yet,” understandably enough. History teaches us that each time Microsoft tries to really stretch itself…

Peterborough City Council is looking to drop Microsoft and its “expensive” user agreements in favour of other, more open source applications and collaborative tools.

New wording in Microsoft’s enterprise licensing agreements could see customers forced to pay more to Redmond while simultaneously jumping through new licensing hoops.  Microsoft has re-worked the fine print of…

The chances are, you’re not reading this on a computer running Windows 8. Despite billions of dollars of investment from America’s original computer giant Microsoft, less than 10 per cent…

Miscreants have forged a strain of malware which is capable of bypassing authentication on Microsoft Active Directory (AD) systems.

It’s that time of the month again, when Microsoft scrambles to plaster over the latest crop of vulnerabilities in Windows and Internet Explorer.  The first Patch Tuesday of 2015 brings…

For the first time in a decade, Microsoft today did not give all customers advance warning of next week’s upcoming Patch Tuesday slate. Instead, the company suddenly announced it is…

More than five years after its release, Windows 7 is still the most popular PC operating system on the planet; according to Net Applications, it’s running on 56 percent of…

Microsoft’s much maligned “Scroogled” campaign is finally, completely dead, apparently. Winbeta spotted that the old Scroogled site (www.scroogled.com) now redirects to a higher-road “Why Microsoft” site. The vendor started pulling…