Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Microsoft has warned its Word software is vulnerable to a newly discovered dangerous bug – which is being exploited right now in “limited, targeted attacks” in the wild. There is…

Some financial services companies are looking to migrate their ATM fleets from Windows to Linux in a bid to have better control over hardware and software upgrade cycles.

Microsoft yesterday began pitching another deal at pry-XP-from-my-cold-dead-hands customers, offering them $100 off a new Windows 8.1 device if they spring for one that costs more than $599.

Microsoft is caught up in a privacy storm after it admitted it read the Hotmail inbox of a blogger while pursuing a software leak investigation.  On Thursday, the firm acknowledged…

According to a report by the Times of India, the software giant is letting smartphone makers in India use its Windows Phone operating system at no cost, hoping to expand…

In an announcement on March 14, Mozilla’s vice president, Johnathan Nightingale, announced that he had pulled the plug on the Windows Modern version of his company’s popular Firefox web browser,…

According to two different web-analytics groups – NetMarketShare and StatCounter – Windows’ market share has dropped to below 90 per cent for the first time since the mid 1990s and…

Tired of waiting for Office to be optimized for their mobile gadgets, a growing contingent of younger companies is turning to cheaper, simpler and touch-friendly apps that can perform word…

Microsoft released five updates fixing 23 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer and Silverlight. Among the vulnerabilities fixed is a zero-day bug in Internet Explorer 9 and 10 being exploited in…

The speed at which cybercriminals exploited an Internet Explorer vulnerability discovered in mid-February and finally patched Tuesday demonstrates the snags in Microsoft’s security update system. 

Tens of thousands of ATMs will be running Windows XP long after Microsoft’s deadline to abandon the operating system ahead of a potential hacker storm.

In the run up to this year’s Mobile World Congress, one of the most interesting items was an announcement of more phones running the Firefox OS operating system. The goal…

There’s been a lot of speculation lately that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) may have two new versions of Windows 8 in the pipeline: a low-cost version and a free version bundled…

Google and Samsung have reportedly joined Chinese phone makers Huawei and ZTE in “expressing concern” to China’s state regulators that the Microsoft-Nokia deal may result in higher patent licensing fees.

Germany’s Federal Patent Court has struck down a contended Microsoft mapping patent, leaving Google and Motorola, as well as other smartphone providers, free to use the technology without licensing agreements…