Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Microsoft  has been gunning for Google  lately with its “Scroogled” campaign, highlighting all the ways that Google mines and tracks user data for the benefit of its advertisers. Well, it…

The group that beat Google in the bidding for Nortel’s patents is now using those patents to sue the advertising giant along with a whole bunch of other tech firms. …

As revealed by The Channel back in early summer, Microsoft killed off its two year old Solutions Incentive Programme at the start of this month and replaced it with one…

Networking titan Cisco Systems says it will open source its implementation of the H.264 video codec and release it as a free binary download. But just because Cisco’s H.264 modules…

The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), the organisation that oversees the USB standard, has apparently sent the director of a small British electronics firm away with a flea in his ear…

A half dozen years ago, Apple had the temerity to charge $129 for an upgrade to the software that runs its Mac computers. Today, it had the sheer audacity to…

Microsoft has released a fix for Surface RT users whose tablets croaked after updating to Windows RT 8.1.  Be aware that this is not a one-click fix; the recovery involves…

Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Marissa Mayer tried to slow the rollout of its search deal with Microsoft Corp and questioned its partner’s commitment, court filings show, in the latest sign…

Microsoft has quickly backpedalled on its Windows 8.1 update, pulling it from the Windows Store after reports that it was bricking Surface tablets.

The Windows 8.1 rollout has hit more hurdles: the new version 11 of Internet Explorer that ships with the operating system does not render Google products well and is also…

Microsoft may not yet be keen for its Office suite to run on rival vendors’ mobile devices, but has made good on its promise to make Windows accessible on Android…

Samba, which has been bringing Windows-compatible file sharing to Linux servers, Mac servers, and desktops for years, takes another step forward.

Oracle has popped out a white paper that may well turn some heads, because it contains robust criticism of open source software. The paper goes on to explain why that’s…

Automakers are working to standardize on a Linux-based operating system for in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems that would make it easier for cars to act more like smartphones.

Google is offering rewards as high as $3,133.70 for software updates that improve the security of OpenSSL, OpenSSH, BIND, and several other open-source packages that are critical to the stability…