Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

In its final quarter of its fiscal 2017, Microsoft more than doubled its profits, saw massive cloud growth, and managed to get a rebate from US taxpayers at the same time.

Microsoft’s long, gentle embrace of Linux continues with the first release candidate of SQL Server 2017.

While Windows 10 is arguably successful from a market share perspective, it is still failing in one big way — the user experience. Windows 8.x was an absolute disaster, and Microsoft’s latest is certainly better than that, but it is still not an enjoyable experience. Quite frankly, the people clutching to Windows 7 aren’t so crazy.

The Apache Foundation has declared that none of its new software projects can include Facebook’s booby-trapped BSD-licensed code.

Microsoft has withdrawn at least three of the patches released at the end of June and early July, but left it to users to find out for themselves.

SURFACE Pro owners have reported that they’re having hibernation issues causing random shutdowns of the Windows 10 device.

India is a great place for innovation and there is a lot of opportunity for Indian firms and start-ups to work with Microsoft and develop cloud-based tools and platforms for a global marketplace, according to a senior official of the software giant.

Microsoft announced plans on Monday to start offering Windows 10 and Office together in a single subscription service. Microsoft 365, as the service is known, will also include security and management tools and come in two flavors: one for large enterprises and the other for small-to-medium businesses.

As users on Reddit and Microsoft support forums have noted, OneDrive files cannot be saved to anything other than disks formatted for the NTFS file system. This especially has affected users who had been using SD cards to save files somewhere other than on their storage-limited laptops.

Microsoft last month declared that it had rebuilt its Skype app “from the ground up.” Those who use the app have been busy tearing it down. Reviews of the Android and iOS versions of the app have been mostly terrible, and those posted to the Windows App Store have not been much better.