Microsoft poised to take Web server crown from Apache
The news isn’t all bad for Apache and other web servers, because the data above measures all web sites. When the firm considers “active” web servers, Apache continues to reign…
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Woolworths ditches Microsoft for Google’s Chrome OS
Woolworths will begin rolling out 8000 Google Chrome OS devices to replace Microsoft Windows desktop computers — believed to be the largest such deployment in the world. The move is…
Redmond is patching Windows 8 but NOT Windows 7, say security bods
Microsoft has left Windows 7 exposed by only applying patches to its newest operating systems. Researchers found the gaps after they scanned 900 Windows libraries and uncovered a variety of…
China puts Windows 8 on TV, screams: ‘SECURITY, GET IT OUT OF HERE!’
China has stepped up its war on Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system with a report in state-backed media that questions the security of the software.
Office, IE and Windows in line for critical fixes from Redmond
Microsoft is planning to deliver seven bulletins next week in its scheduled monthly update. According to Microsoft, the critical bulletins will address a pair of remote code execution flaws and…
First iOS, now Android to get fondleslab Office ahead of Windows
Microsoft is reportedly developing a tablet-optimized version of Office for Android devices, and it is scheduled to arrive before the Windows version.
Google, in promoting encryption, calls out Microsoft and Comcast
For Microsoft’s Hotmail service (now called Outlook.com), just over half of emails to and from Google were encrypted. Outlook.com users can enable encryption but, unlike with Gmail, it’s not turned…
Microsoft distorting schools market, claim UK PC builders
Under a recent overhaul to TAP – which until earlier this year went by the name of Shape the Future – Microsoft slashed the price of Windows to OEMs involved…
Dead and buried: Microsoft’s holy war on open-source software
By the time open source began gaining notoriety in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Microsoft saw a threat to the way it sold software and services and went on…
Payback time: First patent troll ordered to pay “extraordinary case” fees
When Santa Barbara startup FindTheBest (FTB) was sued by a patent troll called Lumen View last year, it vowed to fight back rather than pay up the $50,000 licensing fee…
New ‘Windows-8.1-with-Bing’: How’s it different from Windows 8.1?
Even after MS HQ marketing bod Brandon LeBlanc blogged that lower cost machines running on Windows-8.1-with-Bing will be spaffed at Computex, details on how this operating system variant differs from…
Microsoft’s new open source ASP.Net can run on Linux, OS X
For proof of how radically Microsoft has evolved, especially in terms of its approach to its own software stack, look no further than the newly open sourced and cross-platform incarnation…
Ubuntu Devs Work on Porting Android Apps to Ubuntu Linux
So far, most of the talk about Ubuntu convergence—Canonical’s effort to make Ubuntu Linux run on smartphones and tablets as well as traditional PCs—is about hardware compatibility. But what about…
China looks to Linux as Windows alternative
China may look at the open source Linux as a replacement for Windows, following an official ban on Microsoft’s Windows 8 for government procured computers. Chinese Government news agency Xinhua…
Microsoft Taps Former Linux-Bashing Team To Get Open Source Developers Excited About Azure Cloud
Microsoft has changed the mission of an internal team that used to highlight shortcomings in open source software, and is now using it to recruit open source developers.