Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Azure will no longer be just a platform cloud, providing a place for .NET applications to run and tickle SQL database and other services, but will now have a devolved…

In a move that could be designed to outflank Microsoft in the office productivity app market, Google announced Tuesday it had acquired Quickoffice, a mobile app that allows users to…

Microsoft on Sunday revoked several of its own digital certificates after discovering that the makers of the Flame super-cyber spy kit figured out a way to sign their malware with…

The recent verdict against Oracle in its patent case against Google over Java use in Android is good news for the Linux community – and in more ways than one,…

Microsoft is eliminating the download experience from Skype for consumers by giving OEMs the tools to slip the VoIP client into PCs.

Google lashed out at Microsoft and Nokia in a regulatory complaint, accusing them of illegally feeding mobile patents to a technology troll scavenging for billions of dollars in licensing fees…

In the approach Fedora chose, the organization would pay US$99 to have Microsoft sign the binary release of the Fedora distribution. Although the cost for the certificates would be less…

Government IT projects that don’t explore alternatives to closed and proprietary software are getting kicked back and denied funding.

Almost half (42 percent) of Windows’ commercial installed base is still running Windows XP, according to new figures from IDC.  IDC published the figures as part of a Microsoft-commissioned whitepaper…

Yes, Microsoft will soon embrace Linux on its Windows Azure cloud, reaching another milestone in its ongoing efforts to reinvent itself as a friend of open source software.

Microsoft will make it harder for customers to club together with lawyers to file lawsuits against its products.  The company is rolling out new End User License Agreements (EULAs) that…

Buy a Microsoft consumer product, and you won’t be allowed to join a class-action suit against the company, even if you feel you’ve been harmed. That’s what the fine print…

Over the past few months there have been no fewer than three tiny, cheap Linux PCs making headlines, and now there’s a fourth to add to the list. 

Microsoft has won an important German patent injunction against Google subsidiary, Motorola Mobility. The lawsuit was initiated as Microsoft claimed that the Android operating system infringed patent no. EP1304891 on…

We are now in a hyper-innovation mode when open source is no longer really competing against proprietary software, which can’t keep up, but is instead competing with other open-source projects.