Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Microsoft today revealed that Windows Server 2019, which was made available (again) in November, includes OpenSSH as a supported feature.

Windows 10 may indeed still collect data about you without your permission, but it’s all because Microsoft apparently failed to inform users how these data collection programs work, and how they’re connected. Hopefully, future versions of Windows 10 will prevent this privacy-infringing behavior.

Google largely sees Microsoft’s decision as a good thing, which is not exactly a surprise given that the company created the Chromium open source project. What Google’s statement doesn’t say is the company still isn’t happy with Edge. The Microsoft Store still doesn’t allow non-EdgeHTML browsers, meaning devices running Windows 10 S Mode can’t install Chrome, Firefox, or any third-party browser. Microsoft has yet to say if that will change.

Microsoft is working on a new version of Windows that may not actually be Windows. It’s currently called Lite, based on documentation found in the latest build, and I can confirm that this version of the OS is targeting Chromebooks.

Microsoft is throwing in the towel with Edge and is building a new web browser for Windows 10, this time powered by Chromium.

If you’re running a Surface Book 2, you might want to hold off on the latest cumulative update that is making some in the line quite poorly and their owners quite irate.

It is OneDrive’s turn to get a beating with the stick of fail as the service took a tumble this morning. Issues first began appearing at around 08:00 GMT as users around Europe logged in, expecting to find their files, and found instead a picture of a bicycle with a flat tyre or a dropped ice cream cone. Oh, you guys!

Tucked innocuously among a swathe of fixes ranging from dealing with Russian time zone changes to fixing wobbly Hyper-V servers is the text: “Addresses an issue in File Explorer that sometimes deletes the permissions of a shared parent folder when you delete the shared child folder.” Just think about that for a moment. Permission changes heading up rather than down the folder structure.

Microsoft’s on-again, off-again relationship with the Outlook clients of UK Office 365 subscribers has entered its second day, and some users found themselves still unable to access their email.

The “days without a Windows 10 incident” clock has been reset to zero once again as a tired Microsoft engineer updated the “known issues” page to reflect that, well, there are some.