Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

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…

Apple must pay software biz VirnetX $368m after a court ruled FaceTime video calls infringed VirnetX’s patents.

Microsoft has been granted a patent on a content distribution system that uses cameras built into televisions, PCs, and mobile phones to act as a “consumer detector,” to enforce DRM…

The Linux version of Valve’s Steam games download shop goes live today, chip maker Nvidia has revealed.

Thanks to projects like OpenStack and the mighty operation that is Amazon’s EC2, open source and Linux are quickly becoming the building blocks of “cloud” computing.

Apple today posted its second Samsung apology to its UK website, complying with requests by the UK Court of Appeal to say its original apology was inaccurate and link to…

Government agencies at all levels are locked into proprietary, vendor-specific file formats. Government’s tendency towards gigantic IT contracts didn’t help.Today, the UK took a long-awaited, important step towards fixing this…

Patents threaten every software developer, and the patent wars we have long feared have broken out. Software developers and software users – which in our society, is most people –…

Microsoft is demanding that systems with the “Designed for Windows 8” badge include a UEFI firmware feature called “Secure Boot” that will only boot software that has been signed with…