Peter Galli

Microsoft Corp. has updated an earlier critical security bulletin, warning all Windows users of another vulnerability with the code for its Java Virtual Machine. The bulletin said the latest vulnerability could allow a maliciously crafted Java applet to silently reroute all browser traffic to the applets host without the users knowledge. This traffic could then […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. confirmed Tuesday that it will charge users for the next version of its desktop productivity suite, StarOffice. Mike Rogers, Suns vice president and general manager of desktop and office productivity, in Cupertino, Calif., said that the Sun-branded version of StarOffice 6.0 will not be offered as a free download from Suns site […]

Microsoft Corp. is finally preparing to release the first general beta of its long-awaited next-generation Systems Management Server in late April, but some users whove seen early versions of the code are unimpressed with its evolution. For more than a year, Microsoft has promised users of SMS 2.0 a host of improvements, including enhanced support […]

Microsoft Corp. will be reducing by 10 percent the “geographic differential” its 1,600-odd Bay Area employees earn from Aug. 1, meaning a significant cut in their paychecks. Microsoft employees in San Francisco, Mountain View, Calif., and Foster City, Calif., were told that the “geographic differential” they are paid would be cut from 25 percent to […]

Linux technology and solutions-based provider SuSE said on Wednesday that its latest Linux operating system and applications package, SuSE Linux 8.0, will be broadly available for purchase on April 22. The German-headquartered open-source company said the new version is based on Version 2.4.18 of the Linux kernel and will offer increased security, the KDE 3 […]

Corporate users are divided over the merits of a proposal that would force Microsoft Corp. to offer a stripped-down version of Windows as retribution for its antitrust transgressions. The nine states and the District of Columbia, which refused to accept the proposed settlement between Microsoft and the Department of Justice, last week asked the Washington, […]

Microsoft Corp. plans to open up more of its proprietary source code to allow greater interoperability between different server operating systems and its Windows client and server operating systems. Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler told eWeek on Tuesday that the Redmond, Wash.-based software firm would release the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol later this summer to […]

The American Antitrust Institute on Monday again argued that the proposed settlement in the antitrust case between Microsoft Corp. and the U.S. Department of Justice should not be approved by a federal judge as both parties had failed to comply with the disclosure requirements of the Tunney Act. The AAI today filed an amicus, or […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Friday filed a private antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. for harm that it alleged was inflicted by Microsofts anticompetitive behavior with respect to the Java platform and for damages resulting from Microsofts illegal efforts to maintain and expand its monopoly power. Sun also took aim at Microsofts .Net platform and strategy, […]

The Association for Competitive Technology may appear as a “friend of the court” and present 10 minutes of oral argument during the Tunney Act hearing in the antitrust case between Microsoft Corp. and the Department of Justice, Washington District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said in an order filed with the Court late Monday. In a […]

The nine states and the District of Columbia, which have refused to accept the proposed antitrust settlement between Microsoft Corp. and the Department of Justice, on Wednesday rejected out-of-hand a Microsoft motion to delay the remedy hearings scheduled to start next Monday. In a filing posted with the Washington District Court on Wednesday in response […]

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday moved to delay for two weeks the remedy hearing between it and the nine states and the District of Columbia, which have refused to sign off on the proposed final settlement agreement between the software maker and the Department of Justice. In an emergency motion filed with the U.S. District Court […]