Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Microsoft has announced the creation of a new division called “Microsoft AI.” It will be led by Mustafa Suleyman, a DeepMind and Inflection co-founder.

Microsoft is once again injecting pop-ups into Google’s Chrome browser in a bid to get people to switch to Bing. The software giant first introduced malware-like pop-up ads last year…

Some Microsoft insiders worry the company’s AI strategy has become too focused on its partnership with OpenAI. A few even grumble that the software giant has turned into a glorified…

Today is Microsoft’s March 2024 Patch Tuesday, and security updates have been released for 60 vulnerabilities, including eighteen remote code execution flaws. This Patch Tuesday fixes only two critical vulnerabilities:…

Microsoft has fixed an issue which was causing installation problems with the previous Windows 11 Patch Tuesday release (KB5034765). On affected systems, it would display a “0x800F0922” error message and…

The European Commission violated data protection rules in its use of Microsoft 365, leading to the imposition of corrective measures by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), the watchdog announced…

Back in November, Microsoft announced that it was making major changes to Windows so as to comply with the European Union (E.U.)’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). The changes were several…

Hackers backed by the North Korean government gained a major win when Microsoft left a Windows zero-day unpatched for six months after learning it was under active exploitation.

Microsoft is pulling the plug on Android apps for Windows. The company said it’s ending support for Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA), the underlying component behind the Amazon Appstore (and…

Statcounter, a website that tracks the market share of web browsers, operating systems, and search engines, is reporting that Linux on the desktop has over 4% market share for the…

Microsoft released the first Windows 10 and 11 Patch Tuesday updates of 2024 on the 9th with January’s KB5034122 and KB5034123 respectively. Aside from security patches, the one for Windows…

In a striking turn of events, Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO, has initiated legal action against OpenAI and its leadership, alleging that the organization he helped found has moved from its…

Microsoft, a few days ago, acknowledged that the Windows 11 February 2024 Patch Tuesday update (KB5034765) was having installation issues, and affected systems would find that the update installation process…

Microsoft Copilot, the AI-powered chatbot embedded into Office 365 and other Microsoft products, is not yet ready for enterprise use, according to a top CIO. The CIO, who wished to…

The European Commission is probing if Microsoft is preventing customers from relying on certain security software from its competitors, according to a document that regulators sent to at least one…