Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

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…

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…