Microsoft has locked the lead developers of two prominent open source security projects out of their accounts.

Pressure is growing to drop the appointment of a former Meta lobbyist, elected as an MEP in 2024, from a file which could rewrite the EU’s regulation of US tech giants.

The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software

Before the Danish government announced its move, Denmark’s largest cities, Copenhagen and Aarhus, had already announced plans to phase out Microsoft software and cloud services. Here’s why.

European Commission officials fear that their heavy reliance on Microsoft constitutes a clear breach of EU data rules, according to internal Commission documents seen by Euractiv, which contradict the executive’s public statements on the matter.

Sudden subscription fees, lost features causing users “death by a thousand cuts.”

Microsoft said its update wouldn’t install on Linux devices. It did anyway.

Neither side can afford to lose, but one surely must

Schleswig-Holstein, one of Germany’s 16 states, on Wednesday confirmed plans to move tens of thousands of systems from Microsoft Windows to Linux. The announcement follows previously established plans to migrate the state government off Microsoft Office in favor of open source LibreOffice.

Follows the vendor’s decision to overhaul licensing of the popular cache database

An off-the-clock Microsoft worker prevented malicious code from spreading into widely-used versions of Linux via a compression format called XZ Utils.

After breaking trains simply because an independent repair shop had worked on them, NEWAG is now demanding that trains fixed by hackers be removed from service.