Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Secure Linux distribution Tails has reached the milestone of a version 1.0 release, after its developers crushed a laundry list of bugs.  The Debian-based operating system is a “live OS”…

On Monday, the tech giant announced that it will offer free group video calls on Skype, its popular internet communications service. Previously, such calls were reserved for customers who paid…

Microsoft and hardware partners have announced new products at various price points for US public schools. The company has been working with the education system to bring Bing and safer…

President Barack Obama’s ConnectED initiative, which seeks to provide 99% of American students with high-speed Internet and improved educational technology, just got a big boost. Microsoft announced its plans to…

Microsoft has warned of a new flaw in all available versions of its Internet Explorer web browser.  Vulnerability CVE-2014-1776, to give the problem its formal name, allows miscreants to hijack…

Microsoft Thursday trumpeted $494m in revenue made from sales of Surface during its third fiscal quarter.  But Microsoft also notched up $539m in costs associated with selling Surface, thereby cancelling…

The US Department of Homeland Security is advising citizens to use alternatives to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser until the company fixes a security flaw that hackers have used to…

On one hand, Microsoft’s third quarter earnings beat Wall Street estimates: earnings per share registered at $0.68 vs. $0.63 estimated, and revenue hit $20.4 billion vs. $20.39 billion estimated. But…

The tech giant looks to get an A+ with the roll out of a student-friendly version of its search engine, which has zero ads, privacy controls, and filters that block…

Nokia’s phone division will officially be part of Microsoft by the end of the week.  Over six months since the deal was initially announced, Microsoft said today that its $7.2…

Motorola Solutions has become the latest maker of Android and Chrome OS devices to license related patents from Microsoft, joining dozens of other companies that have entered into similar agreements…

A Microsoft shareholder is suing the company after it failed to offer a choice of web browser in Europe, and was fined £485 million by antitrust regulators.

In case it wasn’t clear already, Intel and Microsoft are no longer joined at the hip. Intel is trying desperately to grow its share of the tablet market, and with…

Microsoft on Monday conceded that Google’s Chrome OS and the Chromebooks the operating system powers are capable of doing real work, a reversal of its “Scroogled” campaign that once blasted…

Microsoft is urging users running Windows 8.1 to update their systems soon, since the company plans to drop patch support for early versions of the operating system.  Redmond said that…