Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Challenging Microsoft’s Windows Azure on its own turf, Red Hat is ramping up services that would offer Microsoft .NET and SQL Server capabilities on its OpenShift platform as a service…

Change: It’s inevitable in and of itself, and it’s inevitable that some people don’t like it. Ars Technica cites a report from Net Market Share contending that Microsoft’s almost-13-year-old operating…

Microsoft’s right to kill XP is unquestioned, but the company appears to have no insight into why its customers continue to use the OS. The fact that it only recently…

If Microsoft and Nokia can capture a large percentage of those smartphone buyers – train them to use smartphones in the way Windows Phone 8 works – then Microsoft’s more…

Linux is on the roll and even soon to be acquired Nokia is adoption Linux-based Android. After conquering the smartphone space, Android is now dominating the tablet space. So now…

In a bid to stave off competition in the low-end tablet and notebook market, Microsoft will be reducing what it charges device manufacturers for its Windows 8.1 licenses, according to…

Dirt-cheap Windows PCs and tablets are coming, and it’s all thanks to Google’s growing low-price threat.  Android tablets are eating the world, Chromebooks have been gobbling up market share in…

Microsoft has responded to strong sales figures for rival Sony’s PlayStation by slashing the cost of its Xbox One console to £399 and including a yet-to-be-released game. 

 Ford, struggling with in-car technology flaws, will base the next-generation Sync system on BlackBerry’s QNX and no longer use Microsoft’s Windows, according to people briefed on the matter.  Using QNX…

Contrary to what Nokia implied two years ago, Lumia phones do not ensure the user’s privacy – at least no better than the phones of other big manufacturers. Lumia’s operating…

Even if Microsoft bosses collectively whistled Always Look on the Bright Side of Life they’d still struggle to drown out people backing Cabinet Office proposals to adopt the Open Document…

The UK Cabinet Office is close to adopting Open Document Format (ODF) as the official standard for government documents, but it hasn’t happened yet – and it won’t, if Microsoft…

Canonical today announces it has signed agreements with mobile device manufacturers bq (Spain) and Meizu (China) to bring Ubuntu smartphones to consumers globally. Canonical is working with these partners to…

Microsoft says it has now sold more than 200 million Windows 8 licenses, in the first update to public sales claims it has offered since last May. Back-of-napkin estimates suggest…

Microsoft’s search engine Bing appears to be censoring information for Chinese language users in the US in the same way it filters results in mainland China.  Searches first conducted by…