Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

It seems that Microsoft is reconsidering its flirtation with phone hardware, which started when it purchased Nokia’s phone division three years ago for $7.1 billion. That deal saw 32,000 Nokia…

Firefox has gingerly pulled ahead of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Edge browsers for the first time across the globe. Mozilla’s Firefox grabbed 15.6 percent of worldwide desktop browser usage in…

Following on last year’s bold announcement that they will attempt to migrate from proprietary Microsoft Office products to an open-source alternative like LibreOffice, Italy’s Ministry of Defense now expects to…

There’s 15 flaw fixes covering 36 vulnerabilities in this month’s patch bundle from Microsoft.  Microsoft’s browsers need a lot of work – Internet Explorer gets five fixes and the new…

A recent Windows 7 update partially bricks computers that have an Asus motherboard fitted, it emerged this week.

The Cortana search box in the Windows 10 task bar will, from today, always use Bing and Microsoft’s Edge browser to find stuff on the web.  You can still configure…

Google has updated the Gmail client on Android so that every Android device running the app will support Microsoft Exchange (reports VentureBeat and others).

The long-running feud between tech giants Microsoft and Google has finally been settled.  They have agreed to drop all regulatory complaints filed against each other, vowing to thrash out their…

Beating Google at the search game is part of the master plan of giving Windows 10 away for free. Many of Bing’s services are baked into Windows 10, including search…

Microsoft is recruiting from open-sourcers to build a unit apparently selling open-source wares on its Azure cloud.  Recruiters working on behalf of Microsoft have been contacting employees of Linux firms,…

Shares in Microsoft dropped more than 5 per cent after the software company reported lower than expected revenues and earnings for its fiscal third quarter.

Microsoft has offered up a grab bag of goodies for IT administrators looking to add cloud skills to their resume, including free trials of Azure and Office 365, plus support…

Look at the evidence. Microsoft seems certain to finally stop trying to push a Windows-based mobile OS on us and embrace the Android future.

Microsoft is discontinuing RoboVM, the Java-to-Mobile compiler technology which it acquired with Xamarin a couple of months ago.  Just six months ago, RoboVM was a small but growing business catering…

Microsoft is both an open source and Linux champion nowadays — on the surface at least (pun intended). In other words, while it does embrace those things, we may not…