Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

it seems the main reason for the deal is that, without more financial firepower, Nokia could never hope to compete. And with their strategic partnership deal set to expire in…

With Microsoft’s purchase of Nokia’s mobile business for $7.1bn, the Redmond software giant has finally become a phone and device maker.  The deal gives Microsoft Nokia’s global handset engineering, manufacturing,…

It’s taken five years, but New Zealand’s parliament has finally passed its long-awaited patent reform, which among other things makes it clear that a bit of code isn’t enough to…

Windows app developers today took Microsoft to task for the company’s decision to withhold Windows 8.1 until mid-October.

Users want a real Start menu on Windows 8, and Lenovo, the world’s biggest PC maker, is happy to oblige. It just announced that Lenovo PCs will come with the…

Historians looking back on 2013 might want to call it the Marissa Mayer Effect. Others, more accurately, could attribute Yahoo!’s web traffic leap ahead of Google in the US in…

The software giant on Wednesday officially kicked off its Bing for Schools program. As part of that, Microsoft wants schools and their supporters to sign up for Bing for Schools…

A U.S. investigation into Microsoft Corp.’s MSFT -0.03% relationships with business partners that allegedly bribed foreign officials in return for contracts includes activity in Russia and Pakistan, a sign that…

Web app testing-as-a-service company Sauce Labs has released its latest browser crash data, and remarkably enough, the least stable web browser today probably isn’t the one you think it is.

Microsoft Tag, the company’s colorful take on QR codes is no more. Launched in 2009, the little-known service was supposed to be the software giant’s answer to traditional bar codes,…

In an ideal world, Microsoft (MSFT) would like to have the word “Bing” become synonymous with online search instead of “Google” (GOOG). But we can’t always get what we want…

Redmond-based Microsoft announced over the weekend that one of the last existing bits of its Zune brand will soon cease to exist. Along with the retiring of Microsoft Points on…

While Google experienced a minutes-long outage Friday, Microsoft offered a three-day outage to its mail services. Two companies heading in opposite directions?

In an amazing tour de force, Microsoft’s Automatic Update chute released at least six bad patches on Tuesday. Here’s what’s amazing: It’s just 48 hours or so since the bomb…

The open-source Linux operating system is widely deployed across modern enterprises, and a new study sponsored by enterprise vendor SUSE Linux aims to reveal precisely what workloads Linux is running….