In the wake of a recent security report that threw light on Internet Explorer falling prey to the maximum number of security vulnerabilities during the first half of 2014, Microsoft…
Microsoft has never been a…er…fan of Linux, to say the least. Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer even likened Linux to cancer back in 2001. Now Microsoft has an unintentionally hilarious…
Microsoft’s wrestling match with Samsung may just be a contract fight, or it could be the beginning of a war over the validity of Microsoft’s Android patents.
After a headline lull, LibreOffice on Wednesday renewed its drive to replace Microsoft Office with the newest version of its open source suite of applications. The latest update comes as…
Microsoft confirmed Tuesday that the next update to Windows 8.1 will take place on August 12, but said that users should expect future, minor updates on a steady cadence rather…
Microsoft is bleeding cash from its Surface tablets and may soon have to consider shutting down the business altogether, Computerworld’s Gregg Keizer wrote in a compelling piece against the Surface. …
Google’s Android has slipped past Apple’s iOS to become the top mobile operating system for the first time, in terms of online usage.
Despite support for Windows XP finally ending three months ago, the ancient OS has only now fallen below the 25 percent market share mark. To add to the bad news…
The inspection by the Chinese authority was to check whether Microsoft broke anti-monopoly laws. The cause of this investigation was from security complaints about Microsoft’s Windows operating system and Office…
Microsoft took 12 days to fix a bug that locked out some Office 365 ProPlus customers after a silent patch automatically installed.
The government of the autonomous region of Valencia (Spain) earlier this month made available the next version of Lliurex, a customisation of the Edubuntu Linux distribution. The distro is used…
The French city of Toulouse saved 1 million euro by migrating all its desktops to LibreOffice. This project was rooted in a global digital policy which positions free software as…
Google reported a few days ago that a million Chromebooks were sold to schools last quarter (another 800,000 were sold to consumers). While that might not look nearly as impressive…
Bromium Labs analyzed public vulnerabilities and exploits from the first six months of 2014. The research determined that Internet Explorer vulnerabilities have increased more than 100 percent since 2013, surpassing…
Technology giant Microsoft reported a 7% fall in profit during the second quarter. The company said profit during the March to June period was $4.6bn (£2.7bn), compared with $4.97bn during…