Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

With the upcoming release of Office 2013, Microsoft is finally offering full support for the Open XML document standard, a format that Redmond itself created and has been promoting for…

Disney-owned Jobs-derived animation outfit Pixar has open-sourced some of its production software.

According to research firm IDC, Android devices made up a whopping 68.1% of all smartphone shipments in Q2 2012. That calculates to 104.8 million of the 154 million smartphones that…

SCO has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet its maker. It’s joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-company. With apologies to Monty Python’s Dead Parrot…

For the second month running, Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification includes nine bulletins. This month, five are rated ‘critical’ and four ‘important’.

Android is great on smartphones and tablets, but it could work on the desktop? One critical missing part has been multi-user support, but thanks to clues in the code we…

SCO Group has now filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection. They are in Chapter 11 now. What is the difference? Chapter 11 means you are trying to reorganize and survive…

A series of slides leaked online reveal information about Microsoft’s new OEM Activation process for Windows 8, which is designed to make it more difficult to activate illegal copies of…

Not only has Valve Software successfully ported the first-person shooter game Left 4 Dead 2 to Linux, but it actually runs faster on the open source OS than on Windows.

Computing giant Microsoft has completed the take-over of Perceptive Pixel, a firm that specialises in making large multi-touch wall-mountable screens. Microsoft says it hopes to use the technology to enhance…

Windows 7 is running in just 20 per cent of large enterprises with the most difficult migrations yet to come.  That’s according to web browser specialist Browsium, which said 80…

Microsoft has topped a list of biggest U.S. spammers for five out of the past 15 months, and for some of those months it ranked No. 1 in the world,…

Microsoft Azure is having an up-and-down kind of day as the cloud platform struggles to get any work done.

Valve boss Gabe Newell has expressed doubt in Windows 8 regarding what he sees as a transition from an open platform to a closed one in Microsoft’s next OS.

Microsoft’s latest patent licensing deal isn’t like its recent Android/Chrome OS arrangements. It is with a service provider running Linux boxes in its own datacenters.