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Kitware and NREL Collaborate Over Implementation of Software Process Support for the Radiance Project

Calvin Azuri | Green Technology World | January 12, 2012

Kitware, provider of open-source software and state-of-the-art technology solutions, announced that it will be collaborating with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), facility of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), for the deployment and delivery of software processes support for the Radiance (News - Alert) Project. Read More »

LibreOffice Is One

Simon Phipps | Computer World UK | October 4, 2011

Once in the mists of time, I was the head of open source at Sun Microsystems. One of my chief delights in that role was the OpenOffice.org project. I attended the Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Monterey, California in 2000 where the project was created out of a product Sun had acquired the previous year, StarOffice. I watched as it grew in polish and capability. Read More »

Linux Continues To Rule Supercomputers

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | June 18, 2013

The June 2013 Top500 supercomputer list is in, and 476 of the top 500 fastest supercomputers in the world run Linux. Read More »

Linux Moves Into Space Station

James Goode | Linux News | May 31, 2013

Laptop computers essential to the day-to-day operations of the International Space Station (ISS) crew will be switching operating systems from Windows XP to Linux, according to published reports. Read More »

Linux Won The Desktop Wars A Long Time Ago

Chris Hall | FOSS Force | February 7, 2013

Linux has won the desktop wars and Tux now represents the dominant desktop operating system. We’ve been in this position for a while now. The reason many of us haven’t recognized it is because this win doesn’t look anything like we thought it would. When wishes come true, they’re rarely what we envisioned. Read More »

Microsoft Extends Open-Sourcing Spree With Project Orleans

Paul Krill | InfoWorld | December 19, 2014

Hot on the heels of open-sourcing .Net Core, Microsoft does the same with its Orleans cloud computing framework...

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Microsoft In OPEN-SOURCE .Net Love-In With New Foundation

Neil McAllister | The Register | April 4, 2014

Microsoft has opened its .Net programming framework to the developer community by releasing the code for a broad range of .Net-related software as open-source projects under the stewardship of a new, dedicated foundation.  The surprise announcement came during the Thursday keynote at Redmond's annual Build developer conference, taking place this week in San Francisco.

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Microsoft Is Now Irrelevant To Computing, And They Want You To Know It

Charlie Demerjian | SemiAccurate | May 15, 2014

With two major cave-ins in the past few weeks, Microsoft is screaming at the top of its lungs about how irrelevant it is. If you didn’t understand the fall of Microsoft from powerful monopolist to computing afterthought, let SemiAccurate explain it to you...

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Microsoft May Be Planning Its Own Platform Play With HealthVault + Smartwatch Combo

Mark Sullivan | MedCity News | June 22, 2014

Rumors of a new health-focused wristwatch from Microsoft have been swirling for some time now, and a digital health industry source told VentureBeat that those rumors are true...

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Microsoft Open-Sources Reactive Extensions Programming Model

Darryl K. Taft | eWeek | November 7, 2012

Microsoft Open Technologies announced that it is open-sourcing Reactive Extensions, an asynchronous programming model for the cloud. Read More »

Microsoft Reluctantly Bows To Linux Users

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | January 2, 2012

Ace Microsoft reporter Mary Jo Foley swears she's not drinking. Microsoft really is getting ready to enable customers to make Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs) persistent on Windows Azure, its public platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud service. Read More »

Microsoft: Look, We Play Well With Others!

Owen Thomas | ReadWrite | June 27, 2013

Apple! Twitter! Box! The software giant is visibly ditching its standoffish approach. Read More »

Ministry of ICT and NITA Uganda Urge on Adoption of Open Source Software

Nathan Ernest Olupot | PC Tech | August 22, 2016

Ministry of ICT and NITA Uganda Urge on Adoption of Open Source Software
Increased awareness, integration and adoption of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in Uganda, both by government and the private sector is key to improved service delivery by government, reduced cost of public service deliver as well as improve competitiveness of Uganda’s ICT and ICT Enabled Services (ITES), Hon. Frank Tumwebaze, Uganda’s ICT and National Guidance Minister has said...

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Mozilla And Mobile Operators Want To Make The Web More Global And Diverse

David Meyer | GIGAOM | November 5, 2014

Firefox-maker Mozilla and the GSMA mobile operator trade body are teaming up to help develop more non-English content for the web, so as to “positively shape” the future of the mobile web – and they’re looking for others to join them...

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Of Open Source, Microsoft, India and Paraguay

Glyn Moody | Computer World UK | October 20, 2011

One of the recurrent recent themes of IT in the UK has been how moves to open source by local and central government have been stymied by Microsoft - the most famous example being the Newham Council saga. Of course, that's not a problem unique to the UK: it's a pattern repeated around the world, as some recent stories highlight. Read More »