Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Microsoft won’t give Windows 10 away for free, and plans to charge for new services instead.  That’s according to salesman-in-chief Kevin Turner, who promised new services would roll out in…

As foreshadowed in February, Ford has announced a new in-car entertainment and communications system that will run on BlackBerry’s QNX real-time operating system, not Windows as is the case for…

If you were thinking of installing the latest update roll-up for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP3, don’t.  That’s the word from Microsoft, which withdrew the update on Wednesday following reports…

Microsoft has patched 25 software vulnerabilities – including bugs that allow hackers to hijack PCs via Internet Explorer, Word and Excel files, and Visual Basic scripts.

Microsoft’s recent acquisition of Acompli, a mobile email app maker, is expected to provide Outlook capabilities that can compete with recent email client updates from Google and IBM.

Microsoft has patched a critical bug in its software that had existed for 19 years.  IBM researchers discovered the flaw, which affects Windows and Office products, in May this year…

When it comes to building applications for the cloud, John Gossman thinks agility and portability are essential. “You don’t want to get locked in too much to a particular vendor,…

Microsoft today announced it will release seven security updates on Tuesday, three of them critical, to patch Internet Explorer (IE), Windows, various pieces of the Office suite, and the SharePoint…

Just weeks after Northrop Grumman got approval to begin building a new breed of mobile radar systems for the Marine Corps, the Corps has asked the defense contractor in Linthicum…

According to a new report from The Linux Foundation, Linux is leading Windows on both the cloud and in enterprise application deployments.

For a very long time, the Xbox 360’s indie marketplace has been something of a wild west for small game developers, a place where it’s nearly impossible for a good…

Google Inc. plans to boost the commissions it pays some outside firms to sell its workplace software, signaling a more serious challenge to Microsoft Corp. ’s dominance at larger companies,…

Security researchers say the newly-disclosed critical SSL weakness in Microsoft’s Windows operating system could be worse than Heartbleed and Shellshock.

GOOGLE IS MOVING ahead with plans to kill off support for Microsoft Silverlight in its Chrome browser.  The Microsoft runtime depends on an ageing plug-in protocol called Netscape Plugin Application…

Microsoft’s open-sourcing of server-side .Net technologies is a big step for the longtime king of proprietary desktop software. But the move itself is of limited impact, and .Net has a…