Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

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. 

Microsoft blames PC makers for underwhelming Windows 8 sales over Christmas, The Register has learned. The software giant accused manufacturers of not building enough attractive Win 8-powered touchscreen tablets.  But…

With an eroding PC market causing mayhem among its allies, Microsoft is reportedly talking about investing big in Dell to help take the troubled company private.

Mozilla has taken a small step closer to finding out whether the world wants another smartphone operating system, with Spanish startup Geeksphone (working with Telefonica) announcing developer previews of two…

A day before Apple’s quarterly results land, Tim Cook will also have to deal with the some unwelcome stats on iOS smartphone market share, showing that the iPhone still trails…

Microsoft and Hewlett Packard won’t share a study claiming that the German city of Munich had its numbers wrong when it calculated switching from Windows to Linux saved the city…

Bad news if you want to upgrade to Windows 8 but are yet to do so. Microsoft has announced its introductory offer will end on 1 February. From then on,…