In the US, everything is mass produced. We understand volume businesses. But in Europe, they really focus on a customized product.

If you needed any further testament to the colossal failure that is Microsoft Windows Vista, just read this Wall Street Journal article detailing PC manufacturers attempts to design around Vista's shortcomings, shortcomings that no amount of marketing...

Microsoft for years has been warning the world not to use open-source software. Apparently, its Kumo search team didn't get the memo. Kumo will weigh heavily on open source. (Credit: Screenshot by Ina Fried/CNET) As The Register reports, Microsoft's...

VideoLAN's VLC media player, arguably the world's best media player, hit version 0.9.9 in early April. Three months and more than 78 million downloads later, VideoLAN has announced VLC 1.0.0, or "Goldeneye."

Linus Torvalds, founder of the Linux kernel, made a startling comment at LinuxCon in Portland, Ore., on Monday: "Linux is bloated." While the open-source community has long pointed the finger at Microsoft's Windows as bloated, it appears that with...

A General Electric CIO has put his foot in his mouth by mischaracterizing open source even as his company broadly uses open source.

Microsoft has been reactionary toward open source for far too long. It's time to open-source Internet Explorer and start giving its competitors grief.

Bjorn Freeman-Mason had become a thorn in the Eclipse Foundation's side, so Eclipse executive Mike Milinkovich very directly said, "You're a jerk. Go away."

Open source is not a sure-fire way to get developers, income, or much of anything, but used right it can help to grow a proprietary software business. Go figure.

For all the power of Twitter and Facebook in terms of open APIs and open data, the reality is that user interface is going to win this battle.