AWS wants to tempt customers into switching to Linux
The open source Porting Assistant for .NET is designed to scan .NET apps and list the things that need to be fixed in order to port the app to Linux….
Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news
I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users and my head is spinning
A couple of weeks ago Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella declared, in an interview with the Financial Times, that Teams could soon be a digital platform as important as the internet…
Microsoft says now is the time for all firms to embrace open source
Microsoft has once again thrown its weight behind backing the use of open source software in the modern tech world. A one-time detractor, Microsoft hasn’t just embraced open source, but…
Want to run Windows apps on Linux? Wine just got this huge update
The open-source Windows-Linux compatibility layer project, Wine, has announced the stable release of Wine 6.0 and it’s even bigger than the previous stable release from mid-2020.
Partners Feel ‘Betrayed,’ ‘Taken Aback’ By Microsoft’s Direct Calls To Customers
A California MSP learned a lesson years ago when a software vendor tried to go direct with his end users. So when Microsoft demanded contact information for his customers, he…
Windows 10 bug corrupts your hard drive on seeing this file’s icon
An unpatched zero-day in Microsoft Windows 10 allows attackers to corrupt an NTFS-formatted hard drive with a one-line command. In multiple tests by BleepingComputer, this one-liner can be delivered hidden…
Windows 10 toolbar: Here’s how Microsoft is adding news, weather and traffic
Microsoft has released a new preview of a future Windows 10 taskbar that shows how it plans to display news and weather in the task bar.
Windows 10X: Microsoft’s ‘cloud-powered’ Chrome OS competitor inches closer
A supposedly near-final build of Microsoft’s Windows 10X operating system leaked to the Web last night. It largely looks like what we’d been expecting for a while now A more…
Steam has never been more popular – and Valve promises big things for Linux gamers
Steam’s ‘year in review’ has just been published for 2020, complete with a raft of statistics which show that the gaming platform has never been more popular – along with…
Critical zero-day RCE in Microsoft Office 365 awaits third security patch
A remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Online remains unresolved after security researchers bypassed two patches for successive exploits. Rated as critical, the zero-day flaw impacts multiple Software…
Microsoft Delivers Fixes for 83 Vulnerabilities in January Security Patch Bundle
Microsoft released its January security patch bundle on Tuesday, delivering fixes for 83 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs). Of that number, 10 CVEs were described as “Critical” by security researchers,…
Microsoft Teams, Office 365 and OneDrive suffer outage – UK users unable to work from home
OFFICE 365 down reports are on the rise, with users of Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive all reporting issues today. Here is the status latest for the popular Microsoft services….
‘Teams Will Be as Big as the Internet’ – Microsoft CEO
The chief exec said that Teams is morphing beyond a communication tool and becoming an “organising layer” by acting as a hub for other Microsoft services. He claimed it is…
Microsoft fixes Windows 10 bug forcing restarts
Microsoft has finally fixed a troublesome bug in Windows 10 that caused forced reboots on some systems running the October 2020 Update. The affected machines showed users a dialog box,…
Microsoft Teams is Getting a New Outlook Integration
Microsoft Teams, easily one of the most popular collaboration tools on the market, will soon receive an update to enable Outlook integration within the service. According to an update on…