Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

As the problem of patent trolling grows, calls for reform are coming from all quarters — including from a famous economist who proposes major changes to the system.

Software made by Microsoft now runs on less than a quarter of devices that can connect to the Internet — down from over 90 per cent just four years ago.

Internet search, online advertising and smartphones all caught Microsoft napping, but is the behemoth finally stirring?

Microsoft on Thursday reported lower-than-expected quarterly earnings as faltering PC sales ate into its Windows business and the company took an unexpected $900 million (£591m) charge for its inventory of…

As of Sunday, Linux kernel 3.11 is officially named “Linux for Workgroups,” borrowing the moniker Microsoft gave to Windows 3.11, way back in 1993.

Microsoft Corp. is cutting the price of its Surface RT tablet by as much as 30 percent as the device struggles to lure customers amid competition from machines such as…

Last week’s Patch Tuesday has reportedly gone sour, with one of patches released by Redmond causing trouble for video playback.

Not only are Google’s Chromebooks a success, but they are now the fastest-growing segment of the PC industry, according to market research firm NPD Group.

There are red faces in Redmond after Edward Snowden released a new batch of documents from the NSA’s Special Source Operations (SSO) division covering Microsoft’s involvement in allowing backdoor access…

Outlook services are down for some users and have been for most of today, although it’s unclear what the issue is.

In all our years in covering enterprise conferences, we’ve never seen a registration form that specifically bans employees from certain companies from attending.  But Microsoft has flat-out said that if…

The Linux Professional Institute has opposed a move by Microsoft to partner with the Kenyan government in an ambitious US$2 billion laptop project, saying that it is a move to…

Microsoft will issue a fix to a critical Windows vulnerability in its July Patch Tuesday round of updates that includes seven bulletins, including six critical, correcting coding errors throughout its…

By integrating Bing Ads into Smart Search, Microsoft is going to be able to serve up ads to PCs running Windows 8. Bing gained some market share on Google in…

You don’t matter to Microsoft and neither do I. We’ve known all known this for ages, but Microsoft has finally decided that they aren’t going to even bother to fake…