Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

In a reversal of its previously announced policy, Microsoft says it is altering the terms of the retail Office 2013 license to remove the clause that permanently tied each installation…

In the ecosystem gamble of “open” or “closed,” Ford is putting all its chips on open. At this week’s Mobile World Congress, Ford announced it’s releasing the proprietary source code…

Microsoft has added support for Android apps into Windows Azure Mobile Services, letting developers programmatically add authentication and push notifications.

Microsoft has axed rebates paid to its distribution channel partners that flog Redmond’s server and communications software.

Microsoft was fined €561m by Brussels on Wednesday over its failure to offer Windows users a choice of internet browser in breach of a high-profile competition agreement with European regulators.

Microsoft has bought a cloud monitoring and automation company and made its technology free on Windows Azure.

The Danish Treasury reportedly wants Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) to pay about $1 billion in back taxes on its purchase of the Danish software company Navision. A Danish news outlet reports…

If you had Windows set for automatic updates last Tuesday, Feb. 26, and run 64-bit Windows 7, you may have been hit by the latest bad patch. KB 2670838 —…

Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has ripped out its old Microsoft Dynamics CRM solution and replaced it with a heavily customised, new one, which has been implemented by Optevia, and…

European regulators are likely to hit Microsoft with a fine by the end of March, according to a Reuters report published today. Citing two individuals familiar with the case, Reuters…

Microsoft’s consumer e-mail service suffers downtime during the U.S. morning rush, but despite tweets sent out by the software giant, the status page still says the service is running.

The world’s number one traditional PC maker, HP, just announced plans to sell a $170 7-inch Android tablet in April. That’s less than the cost of the Amazon Kindle Fire…

Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has again vented his spleen online, taking on Red Hat employee David Howells with a series of expletive-laden posts on the topic of X.509 public key…

After today’s announcement that Canonical has created a tablet interface for Ubuntu Linux, company founder Mark Shuttleworth described his ambitions and answered questions from reporters in a conference call.

Microsoft has clarified the licensing for retail versions of its Office 2013 productivity suite, confirming that boxed editions of the software are licensed for a single PC only and that…