Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

The SANS Institute has warned Windows IIS web server admins to get patching as miscreants are now exploiting a flaw in the software to crash websites.

After many rumors claimed that Microsoft would either buy or invest in Cyanogen, the two companies on Thursday confirmed that they’ve formed a strategic partnership. Cyanogen happens to be the…

Microsoft usually releases a list of non-security patches several days before the Black Tuesday rollout, but this month there was no information until several hours after the patches hit. That’s…

The Linux community’s on-again, off-again relationship with Nvidia appears to have soured once more, amid reports that the GPU maker is back to its old tricks – and worse –…

For Microsoft, the vulnerabilities just keep popping up, and appear to be surfacing more quickly than ever before.  Like last month, Microsoft issued a fairly large number of security bulletins…

A serious security hole leaves millions of Windows users open to attack, making it possible to extract encrypted credentials from a target machine. Researchers at Cylance say the problem affects…

Microsoft has reversed its position on the contentious Do Not Track (DNT) browser feature, saying Internet Explorer will no longer send DNT signals to websites by default.

Microsoft has confirmed it will start supporting the Open Documents Format (ODF) in the next update to Office 365, following a lengthy battle against the UK government.  In 2014, Microsoft…

Microsoft unveiled partnerships with Samsung and other manufacturers to install its services including Word and Skype on devices powered by the rival Google Android system.  The move is part of…

Windows 10 will come with a new browser, codenamed Spartan, built from the ground up – but Microsoft won’t be killing off IE, however much it would like to.

Red Hat’s shares are on the up after the Linux distro maker beat Wall Street’s expectations in its fourth financial quarter, ended February 28.

The SCO vs. IBM case has once again thrust up an undead limb up from deep beneath the soil.  The case hinges on just who owns Unix and has been…

Microsoft is slowly moving away from a strictly premium approach and investigating the benefits of a freemium model, which it refers to as a more “efficient” way to market.

With Microsoft’s newfound love of open source code, the company has announced today that it’s open-sourcing Visual Studio’s build tool for the first time.

As we previously reported, Microsoft is using a tried-and-true trick to help generate revenue for Azure, its competitor to Amazon Web Services and one of its most important products. It…