Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

After opening up its Power chips to bit fiddlers through an ARM-style licensee model, IBM is pouring $1bn into Linux development on the architecture.

According to sources speaking to the New York Times, Nokia was testing Android on its Lumia devices “well before” its tie-in with Steve Ballmer and co became official. Which would…

Microsoft resellers are set for price hikes of up to 138 per cent on some of the vendor’s products next year, CRN understands.  In a recent SPLA (service provider licence…

Microsoft was forced to, again, address bugs in its monthly Patch Tuesday security update – this time, reissuing four security bulletins for customers.  The software giant announced that the new…

After making headlines with its unexpectedly voluminous contributions to the Linux kernel in 2012, Microsoft has all but disappeared from the Linux development scene, according the latest report from the…

Windows XP users in Germany’s third largest city are being offered free upgrades to Ubuntu ahead of termination of Microsoft support for the OS next Spring.  Administrators in the City…

Microsoft’s latest volley in its advertising war on Apple has proved more of a backfire — and now the company has officially acknowledged the misstep. Unfortunately, so is creating a…

Microsoft on Friday acknowledged it had rewritten four of its security updates issued just three days earlier after customers reported never-ending demands that they be installed, even though they had…

For the second time in two months, Microsoft has temporarily pulled a software update after users reported that it inadvertently disabled some Windows features. 

Today Microsoft announced that it has added IMAP support to its Outlook.com webmail product. Outlook.com has over 400 million active users according to Microsoft, making it not only one of…

Google is migrating its MySQL systems over to MariaDB, allowing the search company to get away from the Oracle-backed open source database.

No sooner did Microsoft release the latest round of Black Tuesday patches, than screams of agony began sounding all over the Internet. At this point, I’ve seen verified problems with…

Overall this month, Microsoft issued 13 bulletins—4 for them critical—that cover 47 vulnerabilities found across Internet Explorer, Outlook, SharePoint, Office and the Windows kernel. It is an exceptionally large number…

Microsoft said Monday that it would provide early access to the release version of Windows 8 today, via its MSDN and TechNet services, reversing a previously-held stance that had angered…

For sheer volume of bulletins – 14 – Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday this month will prove onerous, with one critically important set of patches aimed to fix flaws in all versions…