Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Windows users appear half as interested in trying out the new Windows 8 as they did three years ago when they jumped at the chance to test drive Windows 7,…

Microsoft’s deal with Barnes & Noble, with its emphasis on education, could help the company target the college market — which dovetails nicely with Microsoft’s new advertising plan.

Microsoft has invested $300m (£185m) in a digital venture with US bookseller Barnes and Noble.  The deal could make Barnes and Noble’s Nook e-book reader available to millions of new…

With the launch of Google Drive, the company’s productivity suite formerly known as Docs, Google is giving every user 5Gb of free storage space “in the cloud” to access whenever…

Instead of buying another proprietary package, Georgia chose an open solution that’s quickly gaining favor among state and federal agencies. “As we dug in, all the obvious best choices were…

Microsoft is accused of trying to exert clandestine influence on a UK government consultation which could slash the software giant’s £700m income from the UK’s public sector.

Microsoft is accused of trying to exert clandestine influence on a UK government consultation which could slash the software giant’s £700m income from the UK’s public sector.

MS wonks – without any official backing from boss Steve Ballmer – apparently approached Facebook with the idea of acquiring Microsoft’s loss-making Bing, which is dwarfed by Google’s search engine.

Microsoft has demonstrated support for the Open Document Format (ODF) 1.2 standard in a technical preview of the forthcoming Office 15 productivity suite, and plans to release a beta version…

Cybercrooks were busy exploiting Microsoft Hotmail with a critical zero-day password reset and setup vulnerability in the wild. 350 million users have Hotmail accounts, so it was complete ‘mayhem’ when…

Microsoft released Linux device driver code from Hyper-V under the GNU Public Licence in 2009 to improve performance and management of Linux as a guest operating system running in a…

I simply can’t trust Hotmail anymore. And what’s even more worrying is that it’s not only my webmail that’s been compromised, but my Xbox login (which holds my credit card…

Since its debut in 1998, the open-source Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) known as Snort has become a popular platform for security signatures to protect enterprise IT assets. Today, IBM announced…

While Red Hat and SUSE are throwing their support behind IBM’s new Linux POWER servers, Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, has opted to sit this one out.

According to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, his government is spending 15 per cent of its annual IT budget on services relating to open source software.