Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Microsoft has bought the four-year-old business social network Yammer for $1.2bn (£770m) as the software giant steps up its battle with Google for the future of technology in the workplace.

Microsoft has alienated its hardware partners and will soon be rolling out a version of Windows that many people already dislike. Will the Linux desktop finally get its shot for…

Unity Technologies, maker of a widely used video-game engine, today announced that its fourth-generation product will introduce new animation technology and extend its support for Adobe Systems’ Flash Player, Linux,…

This offering by Microsoft for Linux support on Azure comes up short, as one of the largest players in the corporate GNU/Linux world has its distributions scratched from Microsoft’s list,…

As Microsoft Corp prepares to show the world what its new Windows 8 can do on the next generation of high-powered tablets, initial reviews of the new operating system on…

The Australian online retailer Kogan.com has introduced the world’s first “tax” on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) browser.  Customers who use IE7 will have to pay an extra surcharge on…

Microsoft has acknowledged a string of active attacks that leverage a vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0. The vulnerability could allow hackers to execute their…

Many Linux lovers are worried that Microsoft’s new Secure Boot technology will make it more difficult to get the open source operating system onto machines that originally ship with Windows…

The latest raft of patches has been made available by Microsoft for its software products, to help keep users safe from malicious software and local/remote attackers. This “Patch Tuesday” has…

Linux Mint has announced that it will be entering the hardware business.  The company has joined with Israeli-based CompuLab to sell its own Mint branded computers with the operating system…

Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, has been named joint winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize.

Almost a million Android devices are activated every 24 hours, according to Google’s Andy Rubin.

Linux Mint, flush with its recent popularity in the distro stakes, is looking to take the pain out of installation with its first hardware line, called mintBox, that comes in…

Raytheon will help the U.S. Navy transition to using Linux software at ground control stations for unmanned air vehicles, the Defense Department announced Wednesday.

After years of battling Linux as a competitive threat, Microsoft is now offering Linux-based operating systems on its Windows Azure cloud service.