Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Microsoft’s long, gentle embrace of Linux continues with the first release candidate of SQL Server 2017.

While Windows 10 is arguably successful from a market share perspective, it is still failing in one big way — the user experience. Windows 8.x was an absolute disaster, and…

The Apache Foundation has declared that none of its new software projects can include Facebook’s booby-trapped BSD-licensed code.

Microsoft has withdrawn at least three of the patches released at the end of June and early July, but left it to users to find out for themselves.

SURFACE Pro owners have reported that they’re having hibernation issues causing random shutdowns of the Windows 10 device.

India is a great place for innovation and there is a lot of opportunity for Indian firms and start-ups to work with Microsoft and develop cloud-based tools and platforms for…

Microsoft announced plans on Monday to start offering Windows 10 and Office together in a single subscription service. Microsoft 365, as the service is known, will also include security and…

As users on Reddit and Microsoft support forums have noted, OneDrive files cannot be saved to anything other than disks formatted for the NTFS file system. This especially has affected…

Microsoft last month declared that it had rebuilt its Skype app “from the ground up.” Those who use the app have been busy tearing it down. Reviews of the Android…

Microsoft is revamping its sales structure and plans in the hopes of digitally transforming not just its business customers, but consumers, too.

It took just three years for ChromeBooks to capture 58% share of the K-12 computing market. This cakewalk victory by Alphabet is why Microsoft came up with its Windows 10…

Microsoft’s Office 365 portal is encountering issues for a second consecutive working day, causing IT administrators across Europe to vent their dismay on Twitter.

A source with knowledge of the planned downsizing told TechCrunch that the U.S. firm would lay off “thousands” of staff across the world.  Earlier this weekend, the Puget Sound Business…

India is pressing Microsoft to offer a sharply discounted one-time deal to the more than 50 million Windows users in the country so that they can upgrade to the latest…

With the start of the new month, market share reports have started to come in. However, these reports don’t bring encouraging news for every company, especially not Microsoft. Data from…