ECMA has released the final draft of the Fifth Edition of its scripting language, with Adobe, Microsoft and Mozilla coming together to make all browsers work with a more open standard. The JSON object encoding format is now supported.

Newly-leaked internal document shows how Microsoft makes money from GNU/Linux (software patents)

When Microsoft employee, Brandon LeBlanc announced that Microsoft ruled the netbook world, he was exaggerating, shall we say, just a wee bit. I was going to stomp on him but Chris Kenyon of Canonical, the business that stands behind Ubuntu, beat me to it.

Phases of an ongoing Microsoft crisis, in detail. HOW CAN ONE tell that Microsoft stands on its last leg? Well, there are many yardsticks one can use, but one of them is a purely behavioural one. Microsoft employees, for example, are attacking competitors out in the open right now.

A summary of new reports that reveal a brutal, unethical system for information control and monopolies

Whenever the Conficker worm comes up here on OSNews (or any other site for that matter) there are always a number of people who point their fingers towards Redmond, stating that it's their fault Conifcker got out.

As certain large nations approach bankruptcy, will so-called "IP"; become the next battleground?

Operating system security is always a hotly contended subject, and last week Microsoft amped up the hype by claiming that Windows Vista and the soon-to-be-released 7 is the world’s most secure OS, beating both Linux and Mac OS X.

Here’s what Microsoft’s chief operating officer Kevin Turner had to say at the MidMarket CIO Summit last week: