Peter Galli

Office XP Web Services Toolkit and Smart Tag Enterprise Resource Toolkit, released last week, will enable developers to put XML Web services data into Office XP, which Microsoft Corp. officials said will make it easier for users to access important information in applications they use daily. “Right now, our vision for the .Net platform as […]

Sales are up at Microsoft Corp. The Redmond, Wash., software giant on Thursday posted revenue of $7.74 billion for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2001, beating analyst expectations. That was an 18 percent increase compared with the same period a year ago. But Microsoft also reported that it took a $660 million charge for estimated […]

Subscribers to Microsofts Developers Network were still experiencing problems late Wednesday afternoon (PST) trying to download the just released final code for Visual Studio .Net and the .Net Framework from the site. A Microsoft spokesman confirmed to eWeek that the reason for the delay was overwhelming demand by subscribers to immediately download the Visual Studio […]

Sun Microsystems Inc., taken aback by the vehemence with which users met its recent decision to defer indefinitely the release of its upcoming Solaris 9 operating environment for network servers on the Intel platform, will meet a group of customers and developers who use Solaris on Intel to try to work out a compromise. Graham […]

Windows users have been prevented from being able to download critical patches to protect their computers from security vulnerabilities since late last week, due to problems accessing Microsoft Corp.s Windows Update site. While users have long complained about the unreliability of the update site, the current problem began last Thursday and continued throughout the weekend. […]

The competition between server rivals Sun Microsystems Inc. and Intel Corp. took another turn last week, with Sun announcing it will not release a version of its upcoming Solaris 9 for Intels platform. Graham Lovell, a Solaris director at Sun, in Palo Alto, Calif., said Sun will “defer” the producing of Solaris 9 for Intel, […]

More and more software makers are developing technology that gives customers mainframelike functionality across a variety of platforms. The latest offering comes from SWsoft Inc., of San Francisco, which last week released Virtuozzo 2.0, an upgrade of its software that allows hundreds of virtual environments—or instances of the Linux operating system—to run on a single […]

Microsoft Corp. has been issuing security patches and other updates for Windows XP over the past few weeks—only to have those fixes cause new problems. XP users said the updates cause systems to become unstable and some device drivers to stop working. “The patches are coming with such unbelievable frequency these days that its very […]

Microsoft Corp. on Monday released two new tools that will integrate XML Web services into Office XP, its desktop productivity suite. The Office XP Web Services Toolkit and the Smart Tag Enterprise Resource Toolkit are yet another step in the Redmond, Wash., software makers .Net strategy, and will enable developers to deliver XML Web services […]

The dissention and rivalry between Sun Microsystems Inc. and Intel Corp. in the server market took another turn Tuesday, with Sun announcing that it will not release a version of its upcoming Solaris 9 operating environment for network servers on the Intel platform–at least for the foreseeable future. Graham Lovell, a Solaris director at Sun […]

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday moved to have any depositions taken in the antitrust action between it and nine states and the District of Columbia closed to the public. Microsoft called for the depositions to be closed in a motion filed with Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia. The […]

An increasing number of software makers are bringing technology to market that gives customers mainframelike functionality across a variety of architectures and platforms. The latest offering on this front comes from SWsoft Inc., a San Francisco-based server and networking software technology company. SWsoft on Tuesday will release Virtuozzo 2.0, an upgrade of its software that […]