Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Microsoft has issued a tranche of security updates, with no fewer than 57 bugs reported across Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, and other programs. But what’s more embarrassing for the company…

Just as Internet users in general have defected in huge numbers from Microsoft Internet Explorer over the past several years, the business world, as well, is becoming less dependent on…

Nokia’s former luxury phone maker Vertu has launched its first ever Android smartphone, the Vertu Ti, selecting the Google operating system over Windows Phone because it is more established.

New Samsung laptops that destroyed themselves when booting Ubuntu Linux can be bricked by ANY operating system – including Windows – according to a top embedded developer.

Here’s the good news for Microsoft: The 128GB version of its Surface Pro tablet is in so much demand that it sold out in a day. Here’s the bad news:…

But the question remains how many units were available to begin with. There are several threads on Reddit where users complain retail locations like Best Buy and Staples only had…

After months of work, the Linux Foundation’s UEFI Secure Boot pre-bootloader for independent Linux distros and software developers has finally been released. 

Microsoft will release 12 patches for 57 vulnerabilities next week for Windows, Internet Explorer, and Office.  A spattering of enterprise products, including Microsoft Office and Windows Server, and developer tools,…

Today saw the release of a landmark update of LibreOffice, the community successor to OpenOffice.org that’s developed by TDF (The Document Foundation) and its global volunteer community. LibreOffice version 4…

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…