Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

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…

Thanks to skyrocketing signups, Gmail has become the biggest email provider on the Web, beating out Microsoft’s combined Hotmail and Outlook.com, as well as Yahoo Mail. Will the newly unveiled…

Microsoft has increased the price of Office for Mac by up to 17 per cent, another move in the software giant’s territory battle with Apple in the personal computing market.

Rumors have existed for quite some time, that Yahoo and Microsoft could kill their search deal early, but we’ve heard nothing substantial enough to suggest this is going to happen….

Microsoft’s Surface Pro has been given the teardown treatment, and according to the screwdriver-wielders over at iFixit, it’s just as hard to repair as a MacBook Pro.  The Surface Pro…

Microsoft used to think of the open source software community as a cancer, but now maybe it’s a lifeline. Although the bulk of Microsoft’s profits come from its Windows and…

The latest data on smartphone sales from analyst house IDC shows an increase in the reach of the global Android/iOS operating system duopoly, with RIM and Microsoft left squabbling over…