Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Android doubled its user base in three years, with Google reporting 1.4 billion active users on Android in 2015. While phones make up a bulk of its devices, it’s starting…

When the WannaCrypt ransomware exploded across the world over the weekend, infecting Windows systems using a stolen NSA exploit, Microsoft president Brad Smith quickly blamed the spy agency. If the…

Microsoft will not, after all, restrict its open-source cross-platform web framework ASP.NET Core 2.0 from running on the Windows-only .NET Framework.  There are now two distinct forms of Microsoft’s .NET…

Microsoft scrambled to get its Office 365 service back online after the cloud productivity suite was hit with a mid-day outage.  Loads of people reported that, at around 1245 PT,…

icrosoft has released an urgent update to stop hackers taking control of computers with a single email. The unusual bug, in Microsoft anti-malware software such as Windows Defender, could be…

Microsoft has made a change to its forthcoming ASP.NET Core 2.0 web framework so that it is now incompatible with the Windows-only .NET Framework, causing confusion and annoyance for some…

Google, never one to compete in a market with a single product, is apparently hard at work on a third operating system after Android and Chrome OS. Unlike Android and…

The supposedly streamlined operating system aimed at kids and their teachers will only run apps from Microsoft’s official Windows 10 S software store. Right now, there are no third-party browsers…

A flaw in Microsoft Word took the tech giant so long to fix that hackers were able to use it to send fraud software to millions of computers, it has…

Microsoft wants more students and teachers to use Windows 10 and related software, but the company needs a better way to get its technology into cash-strapped schools. So the software…

Even automated security tool thinks Redmond’s snooping operating system is ‘malicious’.

Microsoft has started offering substantial Windows Server licence discounts as an incentive to embrace its cloud.

Microsoft today buried among minor bug fixes patches for critical security flaws that can be exploited by attackers to hijack vulnerable computers.

Cybercrooks are actively exploiting an unpatched Microsoft Word vulnerability to distribute the Dridex banking trojan, claim researchers.

Next week Microsoft will begin the slowish rollout of its big update to Windows 10, the Creators Update.  Right now, it’s doing a little damage control, and preempting complaints about…