Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Day-one Xbox One adopters have had their consoles for a week and a half now, and the warts are starting to show. Over the past few days, we’ve seen a…

Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system is a flop.  This chart from Statista, based on data from Net Applications, shows that Windows 8 was used by just 9.3% of the computing…

Try as Microsoft might, it just can’t seem to put a dent in iPad sales with its Apple-bashing Surface ads. The company has issued several different ads that deal various…

Just ahead of the holiday shopping season, Microsoft ramped up its FUD machine and  launched the next phase of its infamous anti-Google Scroogled campaign last week. This time, the company…

Microsoft has warned of a newly-discovered flaw affecting Windows XP, which allows anyone running in a standard user account to execute code in the operating system’s kernel.

Redmond has issued a patch for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 to cure a bug that borked its backups.

An unpatched vulnerability in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 creates a means for hackers to gain admin rights on vulnerable Windows XP machines, Microsoft warned on Wednesday.

A company launched to defend Linux on PCs and servers is turning its attention to venture-backed cloud startups and mobile.  The Open Invention Network (OIN) has revealed Dropbox is its…

Last time Microsoft’s Azure cloud went down, it was a sub-component that flaked out globally, and the time before that it was a certificate problem – now the service is…

Dell has shipped a second update to its Ubuntu-powered Project Sputnik developer laptop, and its engineers have begun testing other Dell portables with an eye to offering an even more…

Sales of automotive Linux are expected to rise to 53.7 million units in 2020, overtaking Microsoft and Blackberry QNX in the global automotive infotainment market, according to a new report…

Despite outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer’s much-ballyhooed push toward a “rapid release” publishing schedule, Microsoft now says it will ship a Service Pack for Office 2013 in early 2014. The move…

Breaking up with Microsoft is hard to do. Just ask Peter Hofmann, the man leading the City of Munich’s project to ditch Windows and Office in favour of open source…

Users of Silverlight, Microsoft’s answer to Adobe Flash, are in danger of having malware installed on their computers and being none the wiser, as an exploit for a critical vulnerability…

A senior Microsoft executive has told a European parliamentary committee that the company does not encrypt its server-to-server data communications.