Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Microsoft successfully lobbied against a law that would have seen Chile’s government adopt open-source software, says Elmostrador, a newspaper in the South American nation.

Everyone agrees that there’s been an explosion of patent litigation in recent years, and that lawsuits from non-practicing entities (NPEs) — known to critics as patent trolls — are a…

Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud-computing service, a critical part of Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella’s plan to remake the software company, experienced a major global outage yesterday that lasted for around…

Microsoft might have just stolen some money from you with help of the Windows Store. In an extensive look at the “cesspool of scams” in the Windows Store, How-To Geek…

Microsoft has pulled its August Update for Windows after users reported crashes and issues restarting their systems. The company is currently recommending users uninstall the update.

Two Microsoft kernel-mode driver updates are triggering BSOD error message on some Windows systems.  Details at this point are sparse, but it looks like three different patches from this week’s…

The patent system, which was developed independently in 15th century Venice and then in 17th century England, gave entrepreneurs a monopoly to sell their inventions for a number of years….

With surprisingly little ceremony at all, Microsoft has announced that the next major update for Windows 8.1 is coming on August 12 — except calling it a “major update” is…

The company said that the latest patch batch, set to arrive on August 12, will bundle critical Internet Explorer and Windows fixes with seven other tweaks for issues rated as…

Microsoft has confirmed that it’s ending support for old versions of Internet Explorer, and it’s giving you just shy of 18 months to get up to date.  Roger Capriotti, director…

Facebook wants better comms performance from the Linux kernel, and is recruiting developers to get it.  Its job ad, here, says the House of Zuck wants a Linux kernel software…

In the wake of a recent security report that threw light on Internet Explorer falling prey to the maximum number of security vulnerabilities during the first half of 2014, Microsoft…

Microsoft has never been a…er…fan of Linux, to say the least. Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer even likened Linux to cancer back in 2001. Now Microsoft has an unintentionally hilarious…

Microsoft’s wrestling match with Samsung may just be a contract fight, or it could be the beginning of a war over the validity of Microsoft’s Android patents.

After a headline lull, LibreOffice on Wednesday renewed its drive to replace Microsoft Office with the newest version of its open source suite of applications.  The latest update comes as…