Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

We saw last month just how close native Netflix support for Linux is to arriving, with now only a few simple steps required to enable HTML5 video streaming on Ubuntu…

Apple released its iOS 8 update earlier this week, but a number of iPhone and iPad owners ran into problems with the amount of free storage required to install the…

Definitions and labels get confused when we describe technologies that enable social experience, and it’s particularly evident in the way we’re talking about Microsoft ’s $2.5 billion purchase of Minecraft….

Microsoft will shutter its standalone Trustworthy Computing group, folding elements of the unit’s work on security, privacy and related issues into its Cloud & Enterprise Division, and its Legal &…

Google’s range of smartwatches have only been available for a few months, but that’s not stopping Microsoft from throwing its support behind Android Wear. A new Android version of Microsoft’s…

Huawei – the planet’s third biggest shifter of smartphones – has abandoned plans to build more devices based on Windows due to slower than expected sales.

To help bridge the gap between its two mobile platforms, Google has released a beta version of a technology that allows Chrome OS users to run Android apps on their…

Microsoft yesterday pulled another patch, this one released Tuesday, that was meant to fix OneDrive for Business, the online storage service for employees running Office 365.

Microsoft is giving administrators a break with a relatively light Patch Tuesday release in September. The company fixed 42 bugs across four bulletins covering Internet Explorer, the .NET Framework, Windows…

Prior to the season, Microsoft and the NFL struck a 5-year, $400 million deal with one of the major components being that the Microsoft Surface would become “the official tablet…

The NHS has ripped the Oracle backbone from a national patient database system and inserted NoSQL running on an open-source stack. Spine is the NHS’s main secure patient database and…

Microsoft has been hit by a lawsuit from Getty Images, owner of one of the largest libraries of digital images, over a new feature of its Bing search engine that…

Microsoft re-releases botched MS14-045/KB 2982791 ‘Blue Screen 0x50’ patch, buries tip to manually uninstall first patch, and introduces more problems.

With the start of the school year coming up Microsoft hopes there’s still time to convince students and teachers to pick-up a Windows RT-powered Surface. On Sunday, the Microsoft Store…

Microsoft’s internet browser and media player are being targeted in a Chinese antitrust probe, raising the prospect of China revisiting the software bundling issue at the heart of past antitrust…