Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

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.

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…