Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

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…

Google’s Android has overtaken Windows to become the world’s first-choice platform for accessing the internet, according to number cruncher StatCounter.  Android claimed 37.93 per cent market share with Windows on…

The dominance of GitHub in the project hosting and code sharing space has claimed another victim, with Microsoft announcing plans to shut down its CodePlex site following a period of…

Even Microsoft is being swept up in Samsung Galaxy S8 mania. On March 30, Microsoft announced that it is making available for pre-order the Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+…

Microsoft failed its own attempt to sell smartphones, but it’s not entirely out of the smartphone game.  In fact, a free app named “Arrow” from Microsoft, available for Android smartphones,…

Confidential documents, passwords and health data have been inadvertently shared by firms using Microsoft’s Office 365 service, say researchers.  The sensitive information was found via a publicly available search engine…

Windows 10 were outraged earlier this week when it was revealed that Microsoft had secretly been tracking everything they wrote using their devices. An investigation found that a secret keylogger…

Microsoft just took a direct swipe at Salesforce with a new enterprise-ready version of LinkedIn’s product for sales professionals, Sales Navigator.

Plenty of Linux users are up in arms about the performance of the OneDrive web app. They say that when accessing Microsoft’s cloudy storage system in a browser on a…

If your Linux-using mates suddenly disappear for a day or two, we can explain why: Netflix has just revealed it’s fully and formally available on the OS.  As the streamer…

It doesn’t actually matter if Microsoft releases Windows Server for ARM. Windows isn’t the future and even Microsoft knows it. The upcoming availability of SQL server on Linux is all…

One of Microsoft’s most despised operating systems will finally be laid to rest soon.  Microsoft will stop supporting Windows Vista after April 11, the company said in a statement on…