Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Users remain significantly less enthused about Windows 8 than they were three years ago about the then-unfinished Windows 7, according to data from an analytics firm.

Microsoft has confirmed that it will patch a vulnerability in Windows next week that has been exploited by an increasing number of attacks.  Initially, experts wondered whether Microsoft would patch…

Microsoft Windows once enjoyed a seemingly insurmountable dominance over operating systems offered by Apple, but new market share number-crunching shows Apple’s inexorable rise blasting gaping holes in Redmond’s once-impregnable battlements.

Fairfax Media is to ditch Microsoft and move 10,000 employees over to Google’s platform, confirming it will jump to Google Apps for Business on cloud. 

After Red Hat revealed how it would kowtow to the overlords at Redmond, it was only a matter of time before Canonical would genuflect as well over the issue of…

HTC is claiming victory in a patent dispute with Apple after a ruling by the High Court in London.  The judge ruled that HTC had not infringed four technologies that…

Mozilla has announced details of its forthcoming mobile OS built on web technologies, henceforth to be known as Firefox OS and aimed at the “billions of users” who will soon…

Microsoft is absorbing a $US6.2 billion ($A6.07 billion) charge to reflect that one of the biggest deals in its 37-year history turned out to be a dud.

The potential of 3D printing to transform the way we get things – the market is predicted to hit $3.1 billion in the next four years – gets a lot…

That didn’t take long. HP has publicly confirmed that it has cancelled plans to bring a Windows RT (aka Windows on ARM) tablet to market in time for the Windows…

A bunch of open-source Apache projects relating to application integration and messaging protocols have found what will very likely be their final commercial home, as Red Hat has just bought…

A European court Wednesday upheld most of a massive fine levied against Microsoft by the European Commission’s competition watchdog, closing a case against the software giant that began in 1998.

Specialist charities such as housing associations and social enterprises face paying nearly four times as much for Microsoft software due to licensing changes to be introduced by the software giant…

Legal action conducted by organisations deemed to be “patent trolls” cost US companies an estimated $US29 billion during 2011, a Boston University study has found.

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst said the standardization — aka commoditization or componentization — of technology though the open source model has catapulted the information age into an information economy…