Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Industry doomsayers were circling Windows 8 like buzzards before it even launched, but they picked the wrong carcass. Microsoft’s real 2012 roadkill was Win8’s ARM-powered cousin, Windows RT.

Computer electronics biz VIA has updated its Raspberry Pi rival APC – a micro-motherboard its maker calls a “bicycle for your mind” – which it brought to market last May.

Microsoft’s popular Security Essentials anti-virus software has failed to gain the latest certificate from the AV-TEST institute. In antimalware testing against a range of products, AV-TEST failed to certify AhnLab…

Within the virtualization world, VMware can hardly claim to be more friendly to open source than competing platforms such as KVM and Xen. Nonetheless, the company has signed on as…

The Surface was supposed to be Microsoft’s real answer to the iPad — a Windows-based tablet that would satisfy both casual users and digital workers. Now it looks like it’s…

Microsoft’s chances of shining when it steps up with its latest quarterly report next week continue to diminish.  PC sales had a horrible holiday season. Industry tracker Gartner is reporting…

The latest beta release of the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox for Android browser has lower hardware requirements than earlier versions, adding millions of potential users.

“Schools will now have the option to license software by headcount rather than by device, which is a greater freedom for them,” a DfE spokeswoman told ZDNet. “It also allows…

Microsoft will release an out-of-band update to fix a critical zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer later today.  Discovered at the end of December, the vulnerability affected IE versions 6, 7…

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced that it could have sold over a million units of its credit card sized computer – the Raspberry Pi.

Tami Reller, one of the two newly minted heads of Microsoft’s Windows group, said the company has sold 60 million Windows 8 licenses to date. As Microsoft’s announcement explains, that…

Once upon a time any problem at Microsoft could be magically resolved with a new Windows release. Since Windows Vista, however, that formula hasn’t worked. In fact, according to new…

Microsoft has publicly praised the work of a security researcher who found a way to run unsigned desktop-oriented applications on the company’s Surface RT tablets, which run the locked-down Windows…

Microsoft’s reputation as the “less cool” rival to Apple appears to have been reinforced, after thieves raided its Silicon Valley offices – but only stole a collection of iPads.

The zero-day vulnerability caused panic at the start of the year, leading Microsoft to rush out a Fix It solution whilst it works on issuing a proper patch. But at…