Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Microsoft has announced that Windows 11 will support Android apps via the Amazon App Store! These apps will be locally installed, meaning they will show up in the Taskbar and…

Microsoft’s market capitalisation rose to $2 trillion for the first time this week. The company previously passed $1 trillion back in April 2019, having been beaten to this milestone only…

Rocky Linux, one of the new Linux distributions that are designed to be drop-in replacements for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone, CentOS, announced Monday that it’s ready for prime…

The Linux Foundation has debuted a new organization to set standards for the voice tech industry. The new Open Voice Network is a partnership between Linux and companies like Microsoft…

Two months after the Surface Duo was released, fans spotted that the device could be bought for $200 less; the sale dropped to $699 last May, and now Microsoft’s futuristic…

Linux is more secure than Windows. We all know that. But that doesn’t mean it has perfect security. Nothing does. CloudLinux is helping to improve Linux’s operational security with the…

A simple vulnerability in collaboration platform Microsoft Teams could have given attackers the keys to the kingdom, researchers have found. According to security company Tenable, although Microsoft has now remedied…

Unlike Microsoft 365 which requires a subscription, Google Workspace is now available to anyone with a Google account which means that friends, family or groups of any kind can stay…

An Irish subsidiary of Microsoft made a profit of $315bn (£222bn) last year but paid no corporation tax as it is “resident” for tax purposes in Bermuda. The profit generated…

Microsoft has acquired firmware security startup ReFirm Labs to boost its security capabilities for protecting Internet of Things and intelligent edge devices.

The European Union’s data regulator is investigating whether agencies and institutions in the bloc using Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure cloud services are sufficiently protecting EU citizens’ data. The…

The latest version of Microsoft’s Edge internet browser comes with a few not-so-welcome and equally annoying bugs and annoyances, users have complained.

Microsoft says it has rectified an issue that saw emails being routed to the user’s junk folder incorrectly.

Thanks to its pending acquisition of Nuance Communications, Microsoft will soon have a suite of software tools that doctors use to automatically keep notes on meetings with patients.  But Microsoft…

Microsoft is making the promised support for Linux graphical user interface (GUI) apps on Windows 10 available to customers as of the next Windows 10 release, officials said on May…