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Even though Microsoft is no longer the dominant player or pacesetter in the computer industry -- those roles are shared by Google and Ap...

A theme that has re-appeared on this blog many times over the years is that of software patents. As I've noted before, they are perhap...

When Stephen Elop moved from Microsoft to run Nokia, many saw this as part of a cunning plan to prepare the latter for purchase by the f...

Last year, I wrote about some serious issues with Microsoft's Secure Boot Technology in Windows 8. It seems that the German govern...

In the wake of Microsoft's dire financial results, it might seem a little unsporting to draw attention to more of the company's...

About a month ago, I wrote about the extraordinary fact that Microsoft routinely hands over zero-day exploits in its applications to th...

Irrespective of the details of the current revelations about US spying being provided by Edward Snowden in the Guardian, there is alread...

News that the NSA has unfettered access to most of the leading Internet services inevitably has an international dimension. After all, ...

A month ago, we wrote about how the UK's infamous " Snooper's Charter " had been scuppered by Nick Clegg, the UK's ...

Readers of this blog don't need to be told about Windows' awful security record, or how, when news outlets talk glibly of "v...

Remember the bad old days when the UK government forced people to use Microsoft software in order to interact with it online? Remember h...

As regular readers of this column know, there's still a battle going on over whether standards should be FRAND or restrict...

One of the more disgraceful examples of the inherent selfishness of the copyright world is that it has consistently blocked a glo...

Earlier this week, the Linux Foundation made an  announcement  about the oddly-named OpenDaylight project: On Open Enterprise blog .

As I  wrote  last week, all the main browsers are jockeying for position in the world of mobile, which is generally recognised as the key...

Most sane human beings have stopped trying to keep up with the interwined legal actions arising out of the smartphone patent wars betwe...

Five years ago, I wrote an article about the relatively new class of netbook computers. I suggested the ultra-low price machines runnin...

Yesterday I was reviewing Mozilla's current position in the browser sector and its wider achievements in the Web world. One thing ...

Mozilla is now something of a venerable institution in the open source world - the first release of browser code by Netscape took place ...

Last year, I interviewed the head of the Linux Foundation, Jim Zemlin, about his own career, and about his organisation. That intervie...