Today we noticed that the developer of the GNU/Linux distro AnduinOS had left Microsoft. To quote: "The developer behind the project, who previously worked at Microsoft, stated that the 1.3 branch is ...

In recent years, Microsoft has warmed up to Linux, which it used to see as a rival. Now, there's more use of Linux than Windows on Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft’s big focus for Windows is AI integration. Meanwhile, Valve has been not-so-quietly pilfering the entire PC gaming ...

Hell must be getting chilly. Microsoft is no longer just supporting Linux as Hyper-V virtual machines (VM) and Azure clouds, the Redmond giant is producing its very own Linux "distribution" -- Azure ...

More companies are using the threat of Linux when negotiating deals with Microsoft, one of the company's senior executives has admitted. A year after a letter from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to his ...

Linux companies are incensed by a recently published Microsoft document that compares Windows XP Embedded to embedded Linux, calling some of its claims misleading or factually wrong. The document ...

The integration of the open source platform in many facets of Microsoft means that Windows IT pros may need to update their skill sets. A few years ago, I received a rather alarming e-mail. I had just ...

In today's open source roundup: How Microsoft could get rid of Linux once and for all. Plus: Has Windows 10 already killed Linux on the desktop? And Mozilla might have sneaked ads into Firefox via ...

A lot of open source advocates like to rage against the machine at Microsoft, but when a former Microsoft Research employee says that Windows 7 won’t stop Linux from market domination, that’s an ...

Most U.S. businesses say there is very little difference between the cost of maintaining a Windows versus a Linux-based corporate computing environment, according to a new Yankee Group study released ...

Microsoft announced today that the Chromium-based Edge web browser is now generally available on the Linux platform via the stable channel. Soon after its official launch on January 15, 2020, the new ...

Vyatta's Stephen Hemminger claims that Hyper-V Linux drivers had to be released for compliance with the open-source license Code that Microsoft released Monday for the Linux kernel under the GPLv2 ...