Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

While Mozilla is a leading light in the open source community, every so often I’m reminded that the same isn’t always true in the Linux community.  There has been an…

Apple’s iCloud service crashed for ninety minutes on Monday, US time, leaving 12% of users – about 15 million people – possibly “unable to access iCloud mail.”

The judiciary committee could start an antitrust investigation against Microsoft, after the company said IE 10 would be the only desktop browser in its upcoming tablet operating system.

On the eve of its 10-year anniversary, a Canadian advocacy group for open-source software in government says it’s closer to achieving its goal: saving taxpayers $1 billion a year.

Motorola Mobility has won an injunction against Microsoft potentially banning sales of the Xbox 360 games console and Windows 7 operating system over patent infringement claims.

Microsoft Corp. urged a federal judge in Seattle today to rule that Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI) unfairly demands as much as $4 billion in annual patent royalties. 

DON’’T blame Apple for the constant program crashes on the Macintosh computer of the ’90s – it’s all Microsoft’s fault. Wozniak told a seminar in Sydney this morning he had…

Mozilla and Google are crying foul over Microsoft restrictions blocking rivals from Windows 8 on ARM, due later this year.  Firefox-shop Mozilla has branded Microsoft’s restrictions a return to the…

Dell is prepping a dev-centric laptop that runs Ubuntu 12.04 on XPS13 Ultrabook hardware.  Dubbed Project Sputnik, the laptop and accompanying Ubuntu build features a range of profiles and other…

Microsoft has been hit with a public complaint of anti-competitive behaviour over its forthcoming Windows 8 operating system, marking a possible return to the regulatory and legal wrangles that have…

It’ll be all hands to the pumps in IT departments around the globe as Microsoft has issued this month’s round of patches. There are 23 flaws to be fixed.

The system, which was launched in 2005 and developed by staff from Glasgow’s Western Infirmary and Edinburgh’s Royal Infirmary, runs on open source software available for others to use. Units…

Redmond’s isolationist tack toward Apple’s tablet will only make Windows, Office, and SharePoint less relevant to users

Fresh from knocking off Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as the web’s most-used browser for a single day in March, Google’s Chrome browser has now claimed more users than Redmond’s HTML-cruncher for…

Chris Kenyon, the VP of sales and business development for Canonical, just spoke this afternoon at the Ubuntu 12.10 Developer Summit about what Canonical does with OEMs and ODMs. He…