Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

A Web and app designer has stolen a page out of Microsoft’s own playbook in urging users to abandon three of the company’s four newest browsers because Microsoft is “standing…

When Google bought Quickoffice last year, it was making a very clear play for  the world of enterprise productivity, where Microsoft has traditionally reigned.  quickoffice-androidNow, Google’s pushing that effort forward…

Microsoft really wants to make sure iOS and Mac developers are keeping Internet Explorer 10 in mind when working on their projects. To help bolster that effort, the company is…

Net Applications’ numbers for March are live, and they show continued dismal performance for Windows 8. No surprise there — in March, Windows 8 accounted for a whopping 3.17 percent…

A company registered in minor league tax haven the Cook Islands, but with a subsidiary in Delaware, lawyers in the patent-troll heaven of East Texas and an office in Sydney,…

The maintainers of the native Linux port of the ZFS high-reliability filesystem have announced that the most recent release, version 0.6.1, is officially ready for production use.

When companies like Apple and Microsoft are abusing the already broken patent system and using their patents as ‘weapons’ against competitors Google has announced the Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge….

Windows Phone is outselling the iPhone in seven nations, says Microsoft corporate vice president of corporate communications Frank X Shaw.  It’s undoubtedly good news for Microsoft to be beating Apple…

Microsoft is about to piss off even more web developers than it usually does when it releases the eleventh edition of Internet Explorer in the next year.  According to research…

With this month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday update, we see a set of seven updates, four of which are marked as “Critical,” addressing serious problems that could enable someone to access…

A Spanish open source software users’ association has filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission, claiming that the company’s implementation of UEFI Secure Boot stifles competition.

The past two years have already seen significant jumps in corporate Linux usage, but now it looks like that trend is continuing into a third year. 

Federal regulators are investigating Microsoft Corp.’s MSFT +0.50% relationship with business partners that allegedly bribed foreign government officials in return for software contracts, according to people familiar with the matter.

On day two of the 2013 Embedded Linux Conference, Robert Rose of SpaceX spoke about the “Lessons Learned Developing Software for Space Vehicles”. In his talk, he discussed how SpaceX…

Microsoft said the Federal Bureau of Investigation is secretly spying on its customers with so-called National Security Letters that don’t require a judge’s approval, a revelation Thursday that mirrors one…