Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

The UK government’s quest to get public services to use more open source technologies seems to be taking hold, judging by the revamp of the NHS’s very large Spine service.

Microsoft delivered no fewer than eight bulletins to mark the tenth anniversary of Patch Tuesday, including a fix covering two zero-day vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer.

An as-yet-unpatched zero-day vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer is being abused much more widely than analysts had previously suspected.

Microsoft’s onetime Chief Privacy Advisor, Caspar Bowden, has come out with a vote of no-confidence in the company’s long-term privacy measures and ability or interest to secure user data in…

Is Google really the monopoly Steve Ballmer says it is, or was Ballmer throwing the verbal equivalent of a chair when he told Microsoft’s analyst conference Thursday that the search…

Microsoft’s refusal to release its Office software for rival tablet computers risks eroding its most profitable product and has inspired a new generation of start-ups that are racing to fill…

If the heavy hints dropped by Valve Software’s Gabe Newell this week are anything to go by, the Steam Box will soon have a release date.  This Linux-powered box is…

Stepping outside its normal Patch Tuesday cycle, Microsoft has rolled out an emergency fix to an Internet Explorer bug that was under active malware attack.  This advisory provides access to…

Microsoft says that in addition to offering Windows 8.1 as a free update for Windows 8 users in October, it will also be easier for customers to buy versions of…

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…