Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Microsoft Surface Pro 4 owners are up in arms over what they claim is an ongoing epidemic of screen failures blighting their expensive fondleslabs.

The City of Barcelona is migrating its computer systems away from the Windows platform, so reports the Spanish newspaper El País. The City’s strategy is first to replace all user…

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water… The carnage caused by the Meltdown and Spectre bugs has hit a new victim: Windows 10 users….

MICROSOFT HAVE SPEWED OUT new patches for an estimated 56 vulnerabilities, including fixes for Adobe Flash and Office applications, in its latest Patch Tuesday bundle of bug and security fixes….

Microsoft’s fix for the Meltdown and Spectre bugs may be crocking AMD-powered PCs. A lengthy thread on answers.microsoft.com records numerous instances in which Security Update for Windows KB4056892, Redmond’s Meltdown/Spectre…

Amazon’s cloud business quietly just took a big step outside the cloud. Last month, soon after Amazon Web Service’s giant tech conference, the company started offering its enterprise customers a…

A Google security researcher has found and helped patch a severe vulnerability in Keeper, a password manager application that Microsoft has been bundling with some Windows 10 distributions this year.

Microsoft’s Edge browser is less popular with Windows 10 users than earlier thought, if revised data from a U.S. analytics vendor can be believed. According to Net Applications of Aliso…

Microsoft has kicked out its December batch of software security fixes, the final Patch Tuesday of 2017. Redmond has addressed 32 CVE-listed vulnerabilities in Edge, Windows, and Office, as well…

Microsoft has posted an out-of-band security update to address a remote code execution flaw in its Malware Protection Engine.

Some Windows 7 users are reporting problems with Windows Update seeing error 80248015.  While it may have been an oversight by the company, this isn’t the first time that Microsoft…

NXP Semiconductors, a world leader in secure connectivity solutions, just announced a Linux distribution that is intended to support factory automation. It’s called Open Industrial Linux (OpenIL), and it’s promising…

This month’s security patches brought forced upgrades, broken Epson printers, a vanishing patch, yanked .NET patches that underscore confusion inside Microsoft itself, blocked cumulative updates, and a self-induced memory violation…

SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 8 is now available to buy in the Microsoft Store with a slew of preinstalled apps for those deeply invested in the Windows ecosystem.

It took its sweet time, but Microsoft Office for Android is now available on all Play Store-compatible Chromebooks, according to Chrome Unboxed.