Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Microsoft can’t tap into the fast-growing tablet market, according to new figures that reveal lacklustre sales of Surface RT and other Windows 8 slabs.

Smartphones running the open source Ubuntu operating system will be available to customers beginning in October 2013, according to Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical Ltd.

Now this is a watershed moment — Microsoft is looking at offering a Linux version of Office in 2014.

Four months after its formal launch, not only has Windows Phone 8 failed to win Microsoft a bigger piece of the mobile pie, but Redmond’s share of US smartphone subscribers…

Microsoft’s US$2 billion loan to Dell is a sign that the software maker wants to influence hardware designs in a post-PC world while protecting itself from the growing influence of…

SCO, now calling itself TSG, has just filed a motion with the bankruptcy court in Delaware asking it to authorize “the abandonment, disposal, and/or destruction of certain surplus, obsolete, non-core…

When Google launched its Chrome OS experiment it had all the makings of yet another hobby that wouldn’t quite play out to be much of a threat to Microsoft and…

Google is fearlessly trudging on with its Chromebook push in the education market. The company announced on Friday that there are now 2,000 schools using Chromebooks for Education around the…

Microsoft has unveiled a dev center called modern.ie bearing resources and tools aimed at helping developers embrace modern standards like CSS3 and HTML5, as well as with a less-than-subtle emphasis…

A subsidiary of intellectual-property firm Vringo is suing Microsoft for allegedly infringing two of its patents, Vringo said today. 

Although Microsoft’s 128 GB Surface Pro tablet is advertised as having 128 gigabytes of storage, the amount of space available to users is much less than that. That’s also true…

If the average consumer was shopping for a Laptop on Amazon, he’d notice something very, very strange. He’d find a rather unusual device at the top spot of the “Best…

Google has donated of 15,000 Raspberry Pi Model Bs to the Raspberry Pi Foundation.  At list price of £25.92, that’s a £ 388,800 gift and one that the Foundation says,…

In the wake of Acer’s declaration of brisk Chromebook sales and lackluster Windows 8 PC sales, HP appears poised to soon announce its own Chromebook as part of the Pavilion…

Microsoft’s profits dipped during the three months to the end of last year, even though it reported a solid start for its new Windows 8 operating system.