Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

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…

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…