Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

The UK Government has decided that Open Document Format, the OpenOffice-derived file format, is the best choice for all government documents.

The closing months of 2013 saw Android gain ground on rivals in much of Europe and the US, as iOS and Windows Phone saw mixed results in the global market.

Google and Samsung have signed a global patent cross-licensing agreement aimed at reducing “the potential for litigation” and enhancing innovation.

Microsoft has announced the purchase of the hugely popular Gears of War games franchise from Epic Games, thus keeping it exclusive to the company’s Xbox and Windows platforms.

Nokia’s improving Lumia shipments came to a halt during the fourth quarter, and that’s bad news for Microsoft, which will soon take over the phone unit.

In an effort to match prices set by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft said last week it will lower the cost of Windows Azure storage. 

Amazon is one of the most technically influential companies operating today – but you wouldn’t know it, thanks to a dearth of published research papers and negligible code contributions to…

Microsoft has reportedly partnered with Machinima to quietly pay the YouTube channel’s video partners to promote the Xbox One. According to Ars Technica, Machinima’s affiliates could get a $3 per…

While Microsoft continues to push its less-than-beloved Windows 8, HP is citing “popular demand” in opting instead to flog its machines equipped with Windows 7, an operating system that will…

Microsoft has allegedly paid big money to several leading mobile OEMs in order to secure support for its burgeoning Windows Phone 8 OS. In a Tweet, blogger Eldar Murtazin claimed…

The government of China is not too fond of foreign mobile operating systems like iOS and Android, so the country cooked up its own homegrown solution: A Linux-based, open-source operating…

Microsoft has issued a Surface Pro 2 update to fix glitches introduced by a December firmware release, which reduced battery life and changed how the device went into or out…

Earlier this week, Microsoft revealed that it had been going into users computers and removing outdated Tor clients. At first glance, this might seem like a crazed, misplaced attack on…

Inside every ATM casing is a computer, and like all such devices, each one runs on an OS. Microsoft’s 12-year-old Windows XP dominates the ATM market, powering more than 95…

Microsoft has capitulated to the legions of users who are still running Windows XP once again, by extending support for its antimalware software for the aging OS into 2015.  In…