Microsoft goes open source native with Pivotal Cloud Foundry [Ed: With Microsoft's FOSS mole Sam Ramji inside the Linux Foundation...]

Microsoft Azure adds Pivotal's Cloud Foundry [Ed: The Foundation is dangerously naive unless nowadays its goal is to maximise profit and power rather than actually assist/promote Linux]

Pivotal’s open source Cloud Foundry lands on Microsoft Azure

SourceClear introduces Build Inspector to monitor open-source code [Ed: Microsoft-connected anti-FOSS (or pro-FUD) firm has new software]

Brazil joins anti-open source Office movement [Ed: this Microsoft propaganda site reminds us that Microsoft hates (and bashes) Linux, just less directly]

TOP500 SC16 Super Computer List Published, Linux Still Dominating

With the SuperComputing '16 event taking place in Salt Lake City, the latest TOP500 list of super-computers has been published.

Microsoft investigated by Russian antitrust body after Kaspersky complaint

Last Thursday, Russian antitrust authority said it had opened an investigation into Microsoft for allegedly abusing its dominance in the antivirus software market.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) is investigating whether the tech giant is in violation of Part 1 Article 10 of the Federal Law 'On Protection of Competition' [PDF], which prohibits companies occupying dominant positions in the market from engaging in activities that result or can result in "preventing, restricting, eliminating competition" and/or "infringing the interests of other persons (economic entities) in business activities or consumers at large".

Weekend tech reading: NES Classic teardown, new MacBook Pro not Linux-ready, 1080 Ti has 10GB VRAM?

Brazil to Replace Open Source Software with Microsoft Products [Ed: After the banksters overthrew Brazil's government and installed Temer et al Microsoft continues its long assault on the country's digital sovereignty [1, 2, 3, 4]]

"The Brazilian government is reportedly pondering an en masse transition from open source software to Microsoft products, including here Windows 10 and the Office productivity suite."

Brazilian government plans largest Microsoft procurement to date

Brazil Replacing Open Source Software With Microsoft’s Windows 10 And Office

From Windows to Linux: yes, that is still a thing

A request from a bank to look at a switch from Windows to Linux has led to UK-based IT specialist Patrick Fitzgerald and his colleagues at British firm i-Layer developing a detailed method for an institution to make the transition.

Fitzgerald, who gave a talk about it at SUSECon 2016, has been in the IT business for a long time. He and his colleagues only came up with the detailed plan when he had to tackle the task set for him by the Allied Irish Bank.

"The bank has 900 branches and 7500 teller workstations," Fitzgerald said. "After the move, just two people are needed to manage the lot." He added that the smallest branch had just two users, one teller and ran on bandwidth of 128k.

The bank initially called him in for advice and help when it experienced a shortage of trained staff.

A Loopy Non-Interview With Linux Advocate Marcel Gagné

This week, Roblimo again takes a virtual trip up to the Great White North, that would be Canada for the benefit of the NSA and those of you taking notes at home, and has way too much fun hanging out with Linux advocate Marcel Gagné.

Why open source Munich may bring Windows back [Ed: Microsoft paid a lot of money for Wim Coekaerts to pretend that "Microsoft loves Linux", but he has just quit]

Open source champion mulls return to Microsoft [Ed: More Microsoft nonsense courtesy if its proxy Accenture which tries to undermine Munich's migration and success story]

The Renaissance Continues for Open Source Artificial Intelligence [Ed: the latest Microsoft openwashing from the usual suspects]