Peter Galli

SEATTLE – When Bill Gates takes the stage Thursday to deliver the last keynote at Microsofts eleventh annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) here, he will talk about the multiple paths his companys roadmap is leading. The Microsoft Corp. chairman and chief software architect will touch on the latest developments in its productivity business for […]

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday reported $7.25 billion in revenue for its third quarter, which ended in March—a 13 percent rise from the same quarter a year ago—a result that its chief financial officer John Conners said “exceeded our expectations.” But he cautioned that while PC growth rates for the current quarter were expected to be […]

SEATTLE – A standards group made up of the leading IT vendors today will roll out the first draft of a new interconnect specification for linking microprocessors and peripherals. The first draft of the Third Generation I/O spec, known as 3GIO, has been completed and is being transferred to the PCI-SIG, where it will be […]

SEATTLE – Microsoft Corp. has pushed back the release of the next version of the Windows operating system, code-named Longhorn, until 2004. In an interview here at its 11th annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, WinHEC, Jim Allchin, the group vice president of platforms at Microsoft, told eWeek that Longhorn was unlikely to ship before 2004. […]

Microsoft Corp. is reworking its .Net My Services strategy around new server software that will allow enterprise customers to host and run the services themselves. Officials at Microsofts TechEd conference here said the Redmond, Wash., company has shifted its priorities from hosting mass consumer services itself and is now concentrating on delivering the infrastructure that […]

NEW ORLEANS—The first release candidate for Microsoft Corp.s Windows .Net Server software family will be released this quarter, with a final release of the product set for the end of the year. Microsoft released the third beta for the product in late October and has been receiving extensive feed back from testers since then. The […]

NEW ORLEANS–Microsoft Corp., IBM and VeriSign Inc. have joined forces to develop and publish a new security specification for Web services that will form the foundation of their proposed Web services security architecture. The specification, which the parties say is the first such spec to be launched, will be known as WS-Security and is designed […]

NEW ORLEANS–Microsoft Corp. on Thursday confirmed it is working on new server software that will allow enterprise customers to host and run its core .Net My Services themselves, even behind the firewall. Adam Sohn, a product manager for .Net platform strategy, told eWEEK in an interview that Microsoft has shifted its priorities away from hosting […]

NEW ORLEANS –Microsoft Corp. as expected today launched its first commercially available Web service, MapPoint .Net, a programmable platform for mapping and location-based services. The company will host and maintain this SOAP/XML-based Web service, which allows independent software vendors, solution providers, carriers, portals and enterprises to embed maps, driving directions, distance calculations, proximity searches and […]

In another coup for Linux distributions in the enterprise, Compaq Computer Corp. last week announced a $20 million deal with Web hosting company RackShack. RackShack, a dedicated hosting subsidiary of Everyones Internet Ltd., an Internet and digital subscriber line service provider based in Houston, agreed to equip its data centers with some 1,000 ProLiant DL320 […]

Industry partners and Microsoft Corp. insiders were not surprised by the announcement last week of the planned departure of President and Chief Operating Officer Rick Belluzzo, who will leave the software company as part of a restructuring. Belluzzo, a former executive at two hardware companies, Silicon Graphics Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., was considered an odd […]

Microsoft Corp. will take to the streets of New Orleans this week to drum up support for its forthcoming Web services and storage initiatives. At its TechEd conference, the Redmond, Wash., company will release its Commerce Server 2002 e-commerce site-building software, and it will address storage and the treatment of data in its next version […]