Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Microsoft has apologised for enabling a feature, “productivity score”, which critics said was tantamount to workplace surveillance.

Microsoft plugged 112 CVE-numbered flaws in a variety of its products. Of these, 17 are Critical, 93 as Important, and two are Low in severity. Microsoft has changed the way…

Microsoft has warned Windows 10 users that recent updates come with a number of bugs. Reportedly, one of the flaws prevents individuals from updating Office products due to a certificate…

The 2020 Open Source Jobs Report from the Linux Foundation, prepared in collaboration with edX, which is a non-profit online learning platform founded by Harvard and MIT, found 81% of…

Open-source software fans will now be able to work across even more devices after Canonical revealed the launch of Ubuntu 20.10. The latest version of the world’s most popular open-source…

Minecraft players have been able to play without a Microsoft account for the past six years that the company has owned the game, but that will change in 2021, the…

Microsoft is no stranger to using Windows and other software to promote more of its own apps and services. The latest way the company is doing this is via Edge….

Microsoft on Tuesday reminded customers that Office 2010 and Office 2016 for Mac have received their final security updates, as the suites have now dropped off the company’s support list….

Microsoft has released today its monthly batch of security updates known as Patch Tuesday, and this month the OS maker has patched 87 vulnerabilities across a wide range of Microsoft…

The Department of Labor has singled out the firm’s pledge to double the number of “black and African American” senior staff by 2025. Officials have warned the company the target…

Some days it doesn’t pay to get out of bed. Beginning at about 2:15 PM Eastern time, Microsoft’s Office 365 services and Outlook started going down for users. Within minutes,…

Microsoft is rebranding its Bing search engine to Microsoft Bing today as part of a rebranding effort. While the vast majority of people are likely to still just call it…

It used to be really hard to find a Linux-powered laptop. You had to turn to small, specialty Linux-friendly PC vendors such as Purism, System76, or ZaReason. Now, Lenovo is…

Microsoft Corp said late Monday a recent change it introduced likely caused a major outage, affecting users’ access to multiple Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook.com and Microsoft Teams.

It is just days since the CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) issued an emergency warning about a critical Windows vulnerability. Now Microsoft has issued a warning that the vulnerability…