Ars Technica has unearthed a nice set of Best Buy training slides from Microsoft: Ones aimed at teaching store employees how to pitch Windows 7 PCs vs. Macs. Given how much time, effort and money Microsoft is spending to fight Apple, these docs are a lot more relevant than the Linux ones circulating earlier this week.
Windows isn't the only OS whose delivery date is the subject of office bets and rewritten road maps. Linux 2.4 is likely to be a year behind schedule at best.
Microsoft is adding its own open-sourced Linux kernel to Windows 10 to improve performance of Windows Subsystem on Linux.
According to IDC's new server data, Windows is still the dominant player. While the fourth quarter was more robust than the third, in terms of total revenues and units, Windows' share of the total stayed constant unit-wise, yet declined, dollar-wise.
On July 6, Microsoft removed a seeming licensing hurdle for Mono by putting the licensing of the CLI (Common Language Infrastructure) and the C# programmng language under its "Community Promise."
Nope, that's not a typo in the headline. Microsoft is releasing three Microsoft-developed Linux drivers to the Linux community for possible inclusion in the Linux source tree, the company announced on the opening day of the OSCON open-source conference.
After releasing with much fanfare 20,000 lines of driver code under the GNU General Public License (GPL) for inclusion in the Linux kernel, Microsoft hasn't followed through with the necessary updates and fixes required by the community, according to one Linux leader.
To what extent are Fortune 500 companies already using Linux? Open-source champions Oracle, IBM and VA Linux have differing opinions.
Due to the downturn in the economy, many business users are putting the kibosh on migrations to or from open source. That's one of Microsoft's findings from its own customer research upon which its execs plan to expound during this week's Open Source Business Conference (OSBC).
Two years ago this month, in November 2006, Microsoft inked its controversial cross-licensing pact with Novell. Since the agreement was forged, a lot has happened.