Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

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.

The European Commission has been trying – and failing – to avoid being locked into proprietary Microsoft technical standards since 1992, it has been revealed in official documents released to…

Microsoft’s insistence on charging a hefty licence fee for its Windows Phone operating system will prevent it from achieving the kind of critical mass it needs to compete against Apple…

Analyst firm Gartner has chosen just one word to describe Windows 8 for desktop users: “Bad”.

European antitrust officials have widened their investigation into Microsoft’s browser practices to include four different allegations against Windows 8 and Windows RT, a government spokesman said Wednesday.

Microsoft, the once-dominant computer software giant that has seen its fortunes wane in recent years, posted its first quarterly loss since emerging as a public company in 1986 Thursday as…

The problem here is that not only does Microsoft appear to be reading or looking at your private data (which is scary enough) but such an automated process could limit…