Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Today, Linux rules supercomputing. It wasn’t always that way. Here’s how Linux moved from being Linus Torvald’s hobby operating system to being the OS of choice for high-performance computing.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Google has given the open source community 79 patents to help defend against patent trolls.  Under the headline “More patents in the service of open source” the firm…

CLEVELAND, Ohio– A newly-discovered cancer drug may be a breakthrough in treating heart failure, thanks to a groundbreaking “open source” approach to drug discovery that allowed a Case Western Reserve…

Want to do your own space experiment? From next week, you will be able to run science projects on the world’s first open-source satellites. And it won’t break the bank.

The vigilant folk at TorrentFreak think they’ve found something odd: among the hundreds of thousands of sites Microsoft has recently asked Google not to index are requests to remove references…

With Microsoft’s recent revelation that it is backing down from its original commitment to release the Xbox One in 21 markets later this year, the firm is betraying a commonly…

Microsoft’s Outlook.com web mail application and SkyDrive cloud storage service suffered a partial outage Wednesday. The Outlook.com issue prevented affected users from seeing all their email messages. There was also…

MS13-061, released on Tuesday to address 3 vulnerabilities in an Oracle component in Exchange Server, causes data to be inaccessible in Exchange Server 2013. Microsoft has pulled the update and…

All versions of Windows and Internet Explorer are vulnerable to one or more critical flaw fixed today. A component of Exchange written by Oracle is also patched, and there are…

When it revealed its powerful upcoming game console the Xbox One, Microsoft stated that the similarly powerful, updated Kinect device had to be plugged into it at all times. The…

A US law firm has filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of Microsoft shareholders, alleging that Redmond misled investors when it failed to alert them to dismally poor sales of…

With Windows 8, Microsoft recast Windows as a touchscreen interface, and bet the farm that people would flock to it. Now users have spoken: They hate the devices. New research…

Talk about having things both ways! A few months ago in its “Scroogled” ad campaign, Microsoft was complaining about how Google uses your search terms and Gmail contents to deliver…

Gamers will need to purchase an Xbox Live Gold membership if they want to record or share gameplay videos, make Skype calls or use the online gaming match service.  Xbox…

Microsoft quietly published new pricing and licensing sheets for its coming Windows Server 2012 R2 product.  The bad news: Those who want the Datacenter version are going to have to…