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…
We were appalled to learn that there is a proposal currently before the World Wide Web Consortium’s HTML5 Working Group to build DRM into the next generation of core Web…
Microsoft said it’s fixing IE10/Flash interaction, but remains mum on documentation and impact on Metro IE10 updates
In the Post PC era, traditional Microsoft notebook vendors are revolting due to poor Windows 8 sales. The most vocal vendor to date has been Samsung in regards to Windows…
Lenovo has learned from the Windows Vista experience that the official Microsoft “downgrade” path can be painful. So the machines are “downgraded” to Windows 7 by default. Of course, that’s…
The bad news keeps coming for Windows RT: Insiders and analysts say that the sales of Microsoft’s RT-based Surface tablet are bad, getting worse, and may never meet Microsoft’s hopes.
Microsoft has plugged a hole in its Windows operating system that allowed attackers to use USB-connected drives to take full control of a targeted computer.