Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Recent research supports view that patent troll activity is rising — costing America a fortune in wasted legal fees and lost jobs.

Microsoft has at last released some more details on its Surface tablet – including pricing – but based on what we’ve seen so far, Apple and Android-tablet makers don’t have…

Microsoft has suffered a worse than expected 24% fall in profits, but chief executive Steven Ballmer countered by promising a “new era” for the world’s largest software company as it…

Apple has lost an appeal over a UK ruling that said Samsung fondleslabs don’t copy iPad’s design and the fruity firm better put out an ad that says so.

Computerized hospital equipment is increasingly vulnerable to malware infections, according to participants in a recent government panel. These infections can clog patient-monitoring equipment and other software systems, at times rendering…

Microsoft is suing Motorola Mobility in Germany over a mapping patent that Microsoft alleges covers the Google Maps app that ships on Motorola phones. The two parties meet each other…

A single Linux kernel build that can run on various ARM-powered kit from competing manufacturers has come closer to reality, much to Linus Torvalds’ relief.

Microsoft today patched 20 vulnerabilities in Word, Office, Windows, SharePoint Server, SQL Server and other products in its portfolio, including a critical bug in the company’s popular Word program and…

Bing search results are more affected by poisoning than those of other search engines, according to a study by SophosLabs.

Microsoft surprised Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 users on Monday by issuing a patch that fixes 25 security vulnerabilities found in the Adobe Flash Player component of Internet Explorer…

A decade ago, Steve Ballmer described the free and open-source Linux operating system as a “cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches”. The famously…

Microsoft wrongly made automated requests for pages on the BBC website to be removed from Google due to “copyright infringements”.  The system also mistakenly requested the removal of content created…

Google’s Motorola Mobility unit has won a patent infringement case against its rival Microsoft in a German court, the latest in the series of ongoing dispute over patents between both…

Samsung has created a new Linux file system called F2FS. Jaegeuk Kim of Samsung writes on the Linux Kernel Mailing List:      F2FS is a new file system carefully designed for…

Microsoft today announced it will deliver seven security updates, one critical, to patch 20 vulnerabilities in Office, SharePoint Server, SQL Server, Windows and other parts of its product lineup.