Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

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…

London: Consumers who purchased Microsoft’s new Surface tablet have expressed outrage over the gadget’s faulty Touch Cover screen.  A number of early buyers of the product, including several tech writers…

Microsoft said that it will deliver six security bulletins, four of which address critical flaws, in next week’s scheduled security update.  The company said that the November edition of Patch…

A patent holding firm has made it its business to sue just about every tech firm anyone has heard of in its quest to make money from an encryption patent,…

Despite the fact that I’ve been using Windows 8 for the past three weeks, I somehow managed to overlook a rather stark feature in the OS: ads. No, we’re not…

Apple has removed from its UK website the JavaScript code that caused its court-mandated apology to always be displayed “below the fold” – meaning that you had to scroll down…

If you’ve saved up $499 for a 32GB Microsoft Surface RT, you might want to save a bit more for a capacious microSD memory card, or at least break out…