Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Microsoft’s Xbox Series S won’t offer the enhancements baked into the Xbox One X versions of a game. Instead, it’ll run the Xbox One S version. Microsoft has, in a…

Windows 10 has run into trouble with its latest cumulative update for the May 2020 Update, it probably won’t surprise you to learn, and this time the apparent casualty is…

Microsoft has published today its monthly batch of security updates, also known as Patch Tuesday. This month, the OS maker patched 129 vulnerabilities across 15 products, ranging from Windows to…

Developers using Visual Studio Codespaces will need to move to GitHub Codespaces but there’s no way to migrate existing projects from one service to the other.

Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) new Linux distribution, Bottlerocket, has left the developer review phase and entered generally availability, according to an Amazon blog post. The second Linux distro developed by…

Every few weeks, another security story appears saying how insecure Linux is. There’s only one problem with most of them: They’re fake news. The real problem is incompetent system administrators.

A security flaw in the way Microsoft Windows guards users against malicious files was actively exploited in malware attacks for two years before last week, when Microsoft finally issued a…

Microsoft Defender (which used to be known as Windows Defender), is the built-in antivirus tool in Windows 10, and Microsoft has just made it more difficult to disable. While the…

Microsoft has finally killed Internet Explorer The browser will be finished on 17 August, 2021, the company said. In a blog post, Microsoft explained that the Microsoft Teams web app…

The new Edge is a very good browser. It’s like Chrome –only better. But Microsoft has managed to annoy Windows 10 users by making Edge very difficult to ignore.  The…

Google Project Zero (GPZ) is refusing to give Microsoft further extensions on disclosing a Windows 10 authentication bug because it says a patch Microsoft delivered in the August 2020 Patch…

Microsoft has started rolling out today the August 2020 Patch Tuesday security updates. This month, the company has patched 120 vulnerabilities across 13 different products, from Edge to Windows, and…

Microsoft’s new Edge browser started randomly crashing when users typed into the address bar tonight. The issues appear to have affected Edge users who have selected Google as the default…

Using Microsoft Teams is about to get a whole lot more personal after the collaboration app revealed a new expansion aimed at life outside the office.  The new version of…

Slack—the now-nearly ubiquitous, purple work-chatting platform—has filed a formal complaint alleging that tech titan Microsoft is unlawfully abusing its power to squeeze newer rivals out of the market—almost the exact…