Microsoft’s sales people, or third-party sellers, sell Windows to enterprises on multi-year contracts. These contracts help offset rough patches with the PC business. As we said, a flat Windows business…
Google is chucking Chrome at businesses whose applications are hardwired to Internet Explorer – and coupled its offer with a snub to Redmond, claiming its once-proud browser has become “legacy”.
When you think of open source, you probably think of Linux, engines such as the WebKit browser engine and the Java language and virtual machine, and open source software such…
Netflix on Monday said it would abandon Microsoft’s Silverlight media player plug-in for Windows and OS X in-browser video streaming, and replace it with a trio of HTML5 extensions.
The Linux Foundation is embracing the Xen hypervisor, giving major clouds such as Google and Amazon a greater influence in the development of the open source technology.
Microsoft has been forced into a humiliating repair of its own security update in order to fix reports that the patch was causing system errors for customers.
A court in Florida said that Apple and Motorola Mobility have no interest in quickly and efficiently resolving a patent infringement lawsuit, but are instead using their litigations around the…
The stocks of PC software maker Microsoft Corp. and PC maker Hewlett-Packard Co. absorbed significant hits on the news that PCs suffered an unprecedented sales decline during the first three…
It seems Microsoft is continuing to wrestle with Wi-Fi issues affecting its Surface RT tablet, with the release Tuesday of another firmware update designed to once and for all put…
Microsoft is missing out on the rise of tablet computing. People aren’t buying the Microsoft Surface. They are buying iPads, and some Android tablets. These people are probably annoyed that…
We’ve just passed the second Tuesday of the month, which means Microsoft has released its regular collection of bug fixes and updates – but in doing so appears to have…
Asia’s oldest stock exchange has saved huge costs by deploying SUSE Linux for powering a majority of its applications.
Of the 9 security bulletins that it plans to release on April 9, Microsoft has rated the vulnerability of 2 as critical and that of the remaining 7 as Important….
Windows XP, we hardly knew ye! Yet by this time next year, the adolescent operating system will be headed for the big Recycle Bin in the sky, thanks to Microsoft’s…
PC market begins to slip and tablets will outsell desktops and laptops combined by 2015, as Android ascendancy means challenge to relevance of Microsoft, research group warns.