Microsoft is once again trying to show it will play nice with open source by adding support to Git in the next TFS update

Microsoft continues to surprise the open-source community by allowing specific distros on their proprietary cloud service

The software ecosystem has interesting tentacles, says Simon Brew, as he investigates the trend of selling icons onto increasingly bloated Windows computers…

Few web video standards are truly open or free, and the major players have no interest in pushing them, says Richard Hillesley…

Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc, a surprising new subsidiary from the folk at Redmond, has been created to work on open source projects.

The Linux Foundation is releasing its annual Linux Development report today, with increases in overall activity, paid development, and Microsoft’s involvement detailed

Every other year there is a fresh commitment that open source solutions will be preferred for government funded projects, and that open standards will be adopted ‘wherever possible’. The logic for these decisions is well understood, but is soon forgotten when the monopoly comes calling, says Richard Hillesley…

Novell has completed a final deal, selling the company, including its SUSE Linux business, to Attachmate for $2.2bn. US Jobs Axed as SUSE Linux Moved Back to German HQ…

Linux User columnist Simon Brew has a confession to make. He has a Windows 7 installation for two reasons, but only because Linux can’t play the same game…

Zimbra is the first enterprise-grade open source alternative for Microsoft Exchange Server. Read on to find out how to set up your own open source collaboration and email server and finally wave goodbye to Microsoft Exchange…

The first three months of the year were defined, in the technology sector, by some very scary numbers. Just feast your eyes on some of these. Apple, we learned, pulled in profits in just three months of over $3bn. That’s not in a year – that’s just in a quarter…