Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Microsoft’s title update fee was designed to encourage Xbox developers to spend as much time as possible making sure their games were up to scratch before they were released. The…

A court has ruled that Microsoft has infringed upon British Sky Broadcasting’s trademarks, and so may be forced to rebrand the cloud-storage service.

Microsoft announced that it will be offering free weekly updates for Windows 8 users later this year. Its new plan, announced this week at its Build conference, will help Microsoft…

DirectX 11.2 is the latest version of the popular graphics software. Many folks all over the world are acquainted with DirectX because it was one of those annoying programs you…

It’s an exciting day for Citrix, our customers and the open source community as we announce some BIG news for Citrix XenServer. Today we cross another major milestone as XenServer…

It may be a case of once bitten, twice shy for some in the channel who bought into Microsoft’s Win8 launch hype last October and found themselves sitting on a…

Microsoft Corp (MSFT)., which for decades has refreshed its popular Office corporate software just once about every three years, says it will soon switch to weekly updates. It’s a radical…

Microsoft has released a preview version of its re-designed flagship operating system in an attempt to reverse slumping sales and silence the chorus of criticism that met the original Windows…

Microsoft today announced it is slashing its Windows Phone Dev Center annual registration fee from $99 to $19, for the next 60 days. While the news wasn’t revealed during the…

Ouya, the open-source game console that became a massive hit on Kickstarter, has officially launched to the public. And already, it’s unavailable in a few online stores.  As expected, the…

LibreOffice has got a vote of confidence from South Tyrol. Over the course of the next three years, the government plans on replacing Microsoft Office on 7,000 machines with the…

Microsoft made two pretty big announcements today that aim to bring Windows 8 and its search engine Bing into K-12 school districts around the U.S.   Microsoft proudly revealed that 34…

It is not that consumers are spending much less, said Gartner principal analyst Ranjit Atwal, “it’s just that vendors and their channels overplayed demand that did not materialise.

Microsoft thinks Windows 8.1 will fix everything. Ha! What it fails to recognize is that Windows 8 was never the problem. I’m more and more convinced that PC sales continue…

Secure Boot, in its current form doesn’t lock Linux out of a computer, but it starts us down a path where access to particular hardware on a PC can be…