Peter Galli

Microsoft has officially taken the beta moniker off the next generation of its Windows Live services, which it launched at events in New York and Los Angeles on Nov. 6. This new generation of Windows Live will be available in 36 languages and 59 countries across the world, and is the first integrated release of […]

Microsoft has terminated the employment of its CIO Stuart Scott, who was also a corporate vice president at the software company. Scott’s executive biography on the Microsoft Web site was updated on Nov. 5 with a note saying that “Stuart Scott’s employment at Microsoft ended in early November 2007.” A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that Scott […]

The recent decision by the Open Document Foundation to substitute the World Wide Web Consortium’s Compound Document Format in place of the format it was set up to promote, the Open Document Format, has sparked a contentious debate over what shape the format should take. Open document advocates are debating fundamental questions about whether there […]

During the past few fiscal quarters, Margaret Lewis has seen an interesting trend in the server space: Windows is garnering a greater share of the market, while growth in Linux systems appears to be slowing. Lewis, director of commercial solutions at chip maker Advanced Micro Devices, said that in 2000, Windows constituted about half the […]

Sun Microsystems and the OpenSolaris community have released a developer preview of the binary distribution for OpenSolaris, which is targeted at those who want to develop and test the distribution. While Sun is shooting to make the full official release available next March, should that not happen it will take place before the end of […]

The Linux community is questioning research that suggests the open-source operating system is losing market share to Windows on preinstalled x86 servers, saying that Linux is undercounted in those kinds of studies. An analysis of IDC Quarterly Server Tracker figures for the past six quarters showed that Linux growth started to falter and reverse its […]

SEATTLE—The area between personal productivity and line of business applications offers the greatest opportunities for innovation today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told the hundreds of attendees at the Office Project Conference here Oct. 30. “How does a business deal with exceptions, like a bad invoice, or issues with mission-critical applications? Resolving that is all about […]

SEATTLE—Changes to the work management business will be driven by the move towards standardized applications, transparency and accountability, the changing work force, and the notion of people always being on and connected and suffering from information overload. So said Mike Angiulo, the general manager for Microsoft Office Project, during his opening keynote at its user […]

SEATTLE—With the release of a new product and a major acquisition under his belt, Mike Angiulo, general manager for Microsoft Office Project, will give the opening keynote at its first user conference in some eighteen months here Oct. 29. The address will concentrate on the release earlier this year of Office Project 2007 and an […]

Linux growth in the U.S. x86 server market has, over the past six quarters, started to falter and reverse its positive course relative to Windows Server and the market as a whole. The annual rate at which Linux is growing in the x86 server space has fallen from around 53 percent in 2003, when Windows […]

Microsoft reported a 27 percent surge in revenue to $13.76 billion for the first quarter of 2007, which ended September 30, 2007, making it the fastest growth in revenue for any first quarter in seven years, and up almost $3 billion from the same quarter a year ago. The software maker, headquartered in Redmond, Wash., […]

Microsoft will make the hypercall API in Windows Server virtualization available under its Open Specification Promise when the product is released to manufacturing late next year. This means that the API can be used without licensing fees and with Microsofts guarantee that it will not sue for violation of its patented intellectual property. However, for […]