Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Google is refusing to disclose details of how it intends to circumvent an import ban imposed on some of its Motorola devices in the US.

The newly unveiled productivity suite from Microsoft, Office 2013, won’t be running on older operating systems like Windows XP and Vista it has been revealed.

Today Dell announced its official re-entry into the Linux laptop market. Project Sputnik, first announced in May, is graduating from Dell’s internal incubator program into a real product. According to…

Brussels’ competition commissioner has opened a fresh investigation into Microsoft’s practice of using its Windows operating system to push people into using its Internet Explorer browser, following allegations of non-compliance…

According to the company’s earnings statements, Microsoft’s Business Division — the group that handles Office, as well as products tied to the suite including Exchange, SharePoint, Lync and the online-serviced…

According to a new report, the company is doing everything from cutting prices to increasing commissions to resellers to stop enterprise customers from using Google Apps.

Microsoft has issued its security updates for July that patches 16 security vulnerabilities, including a bug affecting Microsoft XML Core Services that is being exploited in the wild.

Microsoft has advised Vista and Windows 7 users to put Gadgets and the Windows Sidebar to the sword, following the revelation of yet-to-be-detailed remote code execution vulnerabilities in the features.

It’s not exactly any secret that Linux dominates the world of high-performance computing, so perhaps it should go without saying that last week’s exciting Higgs Boson announcement would involve Linux…

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…