Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Linus Torvalds just can’t help but be a thorn in Microsoft’s side.  First, he created an open source project that completely upset Microsoft’s business model. And now, he has helped…

Microsoft’s recent campaigns touting Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), including a tongue-in-cheek promotion it unveiled last week, have moved IE’s quality perception needle for US adults, according to a brand quality…

One of the many areas where Google is far ahead of Microsoft is mapping, with Google Maps by far the dominant map service on the Internet. Microsoft is employing an…

A day after the analytics firm StatCounter reported that Chrome had bested Internet Explorer as the world’s most popular browser on a recent weekend day, Microsoft says it simply isn’t…

Google’s Chrome took the crown as the world’s most-used web browser last Sunday, March 18th. But as the world suited up to go back to work on Monday, Internet Explorer…

For the second time in two years, Microsoft has significantly cut the benefits it offers to TechNet subscribers. Will the newly reduced allotments of Windows and Office product keys really…

2011 saw, according to IDC, Linux servers grow while Windows and Unix servers numbers shrank. In 2012, Linux’s server future looks brighter than ever.

Mozilla is doing a deal with the patent devil to serve video to users via Firefox on smartphones and tablets.

The latest kernel update for Linux has been released, and features supporting Android are back for the first time since 2010, along with improved processor and networking support.

The newly-found attack code that exploits critical flaws in Microsoft’s RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) system appears to have been leaked by Microsoft or one of its partners, says the researcher…

I was interested to see that it was quoted in a paper written by Stephen Mutkoski, Global Policy Director, Microsoft Corporation. That paper was referenced and discussed briefly in a…

Apple, Microsoft and a handful of other tech companies are now free to license $4.5 billion in patents they bought at auction last year from bankrupt Nortel, which could open…

Google Docs, Microsoft Office 365, and other online office suites for consumers and businesses will soon be getting some new competition from IBM. After going live some time this month…

If data presented in a in a blog post by Ubuntu project founder and “benevolent dictator” Mark Shuttleworth is any indication, then Canonical’s Ubuntu variant of the Debian strain of…

Microsoft has released six updates in this month’s patch Tuesday, including one critical hole that Redmond warns will be hit in the next 30 days.