Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

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…

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…