Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

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.

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…

Microsoft is reportedly developing a tablet-optimized version of Office for Android devices, and it is scheduled to arrive before the Windows version.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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 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.

Researchers have plucked privacy holes in Microsoft’s Outlook Android app that expose user data when user security setting screws were not tightened. The privacy risks were reported to Microsoft which…

Microsoft today confirmed the rumors of a new edition of its latest operating system by unveiling Windows 8.1 with Bing. The company says the main purpose of the new SKU…

Fans of new Linux operating system “CoreOS” can now run the lightweight tech on Google’s main cloud service.  This means developers who want a Linux OS that takes up just…