Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Microsoft is trying to make up for below expected earnings following Windows 8’s and Surface RT’s lack luster adoption rates by increasing the prices of its products by as much…

Microsoft Security Essentials, Redmond’s free antivirus tool for home users and business with up to ten PCs, can detect just 64 per cent of zero-day threats when running under Windows…

Windows Phone 8 users frustrated by their handsets’ tendency to randomly reboot will soon be offered relief, after Redmond ‘fessed up to the existence of a problem and promised a…

Over €10 million (approximately £8 million or $12.8 million) has been saved by the city of Munich, thanks to its development and use of the city’s own Linux platform.

Animation studio Dreamworks has released some of its production animation code under an open source licence.

A Google expert witness testified on Tuesday that Microsoft will make roughly $94 billion in revenue through 2017 from its Xbox game console and Surface tablet that use Google’s patented…

The Linux Foundation’s promised workaround that will allow Linux to boot on Windows 8 PCs has yet to clear Microsoft’s code certification process, although the exact reason for the hold-up…

Sadly for Microsoft, it looks like a shameless Oprah’s plug has come too late and Redmond has lost Q4. This is traditionally the strongest sales period for any PC, software…

At the BUILD conference last month, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer boasted about Windows 8’s popularity among enthusiasts and businesses. Things may not be quite as rosy as Ballmer suggested, though….

Microsoft has drawn its knife to slice and dice the fees handed to LARs in a bid to drive up the number of signed Enterprise Agreements.  Redmond has already used…

Windows Phone 8 devices have been available since the beginning of the month and users are starting to report early issues across HTC and Nokia handsets. In a thread over…

Microsoft has started to adopt some key software development practices from Yammer, the ESN (enterprise social networking) vendor it acquired several months ago.  Specifically, Microsoft sees great value in the…

On November 13, some Microsoft Office 365 customers in North America were reporting (via Twitter and email) that they were experiencing email problems — just like they were five days…

The knives are out for Windows Defender, the basic anti-malware protection bundled with Windows 8: makers of rival antivirus products are lining up to criticise Microsoft’s efforts to secure its…

Microsoft has announced it intends to “retire” its instant message chat tool and replace it with Skype’s messaging tool.  The news comes 18 months after the software giant announced it…