Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

The software giant on Wednesday officially kicked off its Bing for Schools program. As part of that, Microsoft wants schools and their supporters to sign up for Bing for Schools…

A U.S. investigation into Microsoft Corp.’s MSFT -0.03% relationships with business partners that allegedly bribed foreign officials in return for contracts includes activity in Russia and Pakistan, a sign that…

Web app testing-as-a-service company Sauce Labs has released its latest browser crash data, and remarkably enough, the least stable web browser today probably isn’t the one you think it is.

Microsoft Tag, the company’s colorful take on QR codes is no more. Launched in 2009, the little-known service was supposed to be the software giant’s answer to traditional bar codes,…

In an ideal world, Microsoft (MSFT) would like to have the word “Bing” become synonymous with online search instead of “Google” (GOOG). But we can’t always get what we want…

Redmond-based Microsoft announced over the weekend that one of the last existing bits of its Zune brand will soon cease to exist. Along with the retiring of Microsoft Points on…

While Google experienced a minutes-long outage Friday, Microsoft offered a three-day outage to its mail services. Two companies heading in opposite directions?

In an amazing tour de force, Microsoft’s Automatic Update chute released at least six bad patches on Tuesday. Here’s what’s amazing: It’s just 48 hours or so since the bomb…

The open-source Linux operating system is widely deployed across modern enterprises, and a new study sponsored by enterprise vendor SUSE Linux aims to reveal precisely what workloads Linux is running….

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…