Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

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.

Mozilla is readying the release of Firefox 12 for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms delivering a number of improvements mostly aimed at developers, but also ushering in a less intrusive…

A Pennsylvania professor is gunning for a slice of all of Apple’s touch-based product revenues, after claiming they infringe a patent for a museum screen technology he developed 15 years…

Apple violated one of four Motorola Mobility patent rights being contested, ITC Judge Thomas Pender said in a notice posted today. The patent relates to 3G technology. 

As we reported, the update breaks Outlook, Microsoft has now pulled it from Auto Update.

Microsoft has suffered a setback in the technology industry patent wars, with a US International Trade Commission judge issuing a preliminary ruling favouring rival Motorola Mobility.

Microsoft fared better than analysts anticipated in its latest financial quarter, boosted by an unexpected rise in sales of its Windows operating system for PCs.  But profits dipped due to…