Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Google has made public the details of a security vulnerability in Windows 8.1 a mere 90 days after disclosing it to Microsoft, sparking debate over the wisdom of the online…

Microsoft sites, including search engine Bing and MSN.com, were knocked briefly offline Friday after bad code was rolled out, according to a report.

Erle Robotics launched a ROS-enabled, open source “Erle-brain” autopilot that runs APM directly on Linux. The device also powers an “Erle-copter” drone.

Microsoft has revealed more information on its plans for Office on mobile devices: iOS, Android and Windows phones and tablets.  Microsoft Office is going cross-platform “rather aggressively”, says Technical Product…

Ho hum. Another year, another slew of open source announcements that prove the once-maligned development methodology is now so mainstream as to be tedious. Running most of the world’s most…

Microsoft is terminating its SharePoint Online Public Website service, effective January 2015.  SharePoint Online Public Website lets Office 365 users create a website and customise it with in-browser tools.

A requirement for Microsoft to offer new Windows users in Europe a choice of web browsers has ended after five years.  Called the browser ballot, it gave non-Microsoft browsers as…

Microsoft shares fell after Bank of America downgraded its outlook for the world’s biggest software company, saying its outperforming share price this year is “cause for concern”.

IBM has had a win in its long court battle with SCO over just who owns Unix and, by extension, whether Linux is an unauthorised clone.

The last several months have seen a disturbing string of problems in updates released for Microsoft products. Last week we saw four. It’s time to worry about what’s behind it…

Facebook has dumped search results from Microsoft’s Bing after the social networking giant earlier this week launched its own tool for finding comments and other information

If you have Windows 7 set to automatically update every Tuesday, it may be time to permanently disable that feature. Microsoft has just confirmed that a recent update — specifically…

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…