Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Surface Pro 3 battery woes have gone from bad to dire. Microsoft, meanwhile, is hiding and stonewalling again.

A tweak to Microsoft’s Outlook.com cloud service has blocked a good number of people from accessing their messages.

Microsoft has overnight pushed out the latest of its ongoing preview builds for Windows 10, with this one carrying a warning that it could break your network file share connections.

The city of Moscow is contemplating ditching Microsoft’s technology as president Vladimir Putin urges state officials and local businesses to scale down their reliance on foreign software providers.  In turn,…

Microsoft has paid the relative of an Alzheimer’s patient for having to scrub his PC clean of Windows 10.  Jesse Worley said he’d received a cheque for $650 from Microsoft…

Microsoft has been urged to pay compensation to customers that have suffered computer malfunctions when upgrading to its new software Windows 10.   Since the company released the software last year…

Software giant Microsoft is set to officially launch its next-generation server platform next week, but the firm faces growing competition from Linux as corporate customers shift more toward the cloud…

If you’re looking for a new PC to install Linux onto, you might want to give Lenovo’s Windows 10 powered Signature Edition PCs a wide berth.

Microsoft has patched a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that at least two threat actor groups have used for some time to serve malicious advertisements to between 1 million and…

Microsoft released 14 security bulletins for September, seven of which are rated critical due to remote code execution flaws. Microsoft in all its wisdom didn’t regard all RCEs as critical….

Net scum are still finding ways to take down users with a decade-old Windows Media Player attack. The vector is a reborn social engineering hatchet job not seen in years…

MICROSOFT HAS PUSHED OUT an upgrade to the Windows 10 Anniversary Update which fixes a fault that caused PowerShell borkage, and another that caused machines to freeze at the account…

Frustrated Surface Pro 3 customers unable to properly charge their batteries have been offered a fix by Microsoft.  Last month Microsoft ‘fessed up to its battery woes, saying they were…

It’s been twenty-five years since Linux began. Today, we’re living in a world where Microsoft has embraced Linux and everything — and I mean everything — depends on Linux. It…

You’d be forgiven for thinking Microsoft is actively trying to stop people using Windows 10 Anniversary Edition. A patch this week broke one of the key features of the OS:…