Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) was hit with an outage early Tuesday morning that prevented users from accessing a host of applications and services including Xbox, Skype and Outlook. Many Microsoft customers…

Microsoft has made a bad habit of introducing ads here and there throughout Windows, and now people are starting to notice them showing up in another spot: inside File Explorer.

Acadian Asset Management’s partnership with Microsoft is the latest example of data’s mounting importance to Wall Street. The Boston-based investment firm, which has $77 billion under management, announced it would…

If you’ve jumped from using a Microsoft browser to Chrome in the last couple years, you’re far from alone. People are deserting built-in browsers at record rates, and Microsoft is…

A vulnerability discovered by Google Project Zero security researchers and left without a patch by Microsoft received a temporary fix from third-party security vendor ACROS Security.

I’ve long argued that in making Windows 10 free Microsoft actually hit users with a heavy price when it comes to control and privacy, but now it seems the company…

Google has gone public with details of a second unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft products, this time in Edge and Internet Explorer, after last week they’ve published details about a bug…

The Kerala government has made a saving of Rs 300 crore through introduction and adoption of Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) in the school education sector, said a state…

European Union data protection watchdogs said on Monday they were still concerned about the privacy settings of Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system despite the U.S. company announcing changes to the…

Microsoft on Thursday is launching Healthcare NeXT, a new health care and medical research effort, with a partnership with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.  The idea of HealthVault is morphing…

Microsoft has delayed the release of a security update that would have fixed a vulnerability cyber thieves are known to be exploiting.  The fix was to be released as part…

A Windows Server zero-day security vulnerability has been released into the wild after Microsoft failed to issue a patch, despite having been warned of the problem three months ago.

A zero-day bug affecting Windows 10, 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and 2016 can be exploited to crash a vulnerable system and possibly even to compromise it.

Google is planning to bring artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to the diminutive Raspberry Pi this year.

Maybe you’re delivering a presentation to a huge audience. Maybe you’re taking an online test. Maybe you just need to get some work done on a tight deadline.  Windows doesn’t…