Peter Galli

LAS VEGAS—As Microsoft Corp. readies the current Visual Studio .Net release candidate for final production before the end of the year, its development team is already working on the next version of the product for release in late 2003. While Visual Studio .Net Version 2002 will be broadly available after the official launch at an […]

LAS VEGAS — Microsoft Corp. will include a fourth, pre-configured, out-of-the-box Web server when it ships its Windows .Net server family in the first half of next year, officials confirmed here at Comdex on Monday. “We have seen a lot of interest from customers over the last year or two for single purpose systems that […]

LAS VEGAS–Executives from Microsoft Corp. and its OEM partners are in town at Comdex to tout the Tablet PC, which they say is the mobile business PC and form factor of the future. But apart from a lot of hype and a couple of prototypes available for demonstrations, there were few specifics available regarding potential […]

LAS VEGAS–While 2001 has been a challenging year, in fact the toughest in several decades for both the world at large and the technology industry, the next decade holds huge potential, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp.s chairman and chief software architect, said in his “state-of-the industry” keynote at Comdex here on Sunday night. Addressing a crowd […]

LAS VEGAS–Microsoft Corp. has added a fourth, pre-configured, out-of-the-box Web server to its forthcoming Windows .Net server family, officials confirmed here at Comdex on Monday. The Windows .Net Web server joins an enterprise software lineup that includes the .Net Standard server, the .Net Enterprise server and the .Net Datacenter server. All are due to ship […]

Bill Gates will use his annual opening keynote at Comdex in Las Vegas on Sunday to tout one of his favorite projects, the Tablet PC. But sources familiar with Gates speech say he is also hoping to announce the availability of the third beta for Microsoft Corp.s Windows .Net server family—if the development team can […]

IBM is working with a number of it vendors and customers to develop a strategic design road map and assist with the infrastructure for autonomous, self-healing systems. The Armonk, N.Y., company announced last week a services offering to automate key e-business processes and better predict, identify and intercept problems on a real-time basis. These initiatives […]

Microsoft Corp. has rolled out the near-final versions of software for its .Net platform, paving the way for developers to begin working in earnest to create .Net applications and Web services. Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates announced the availability of the first and only release candidate for Visual Studio .Net and the […]

The landmark antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. took another turn on Monday, when Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly said he would not sign off on the federal governments settlement with the Redmond, Wash., software firm unless major changes were made to it. This sets the stage for a split among the states themselves over whether […]

The battle over the Linux kernel that has divided the developer community appears to be over—at least for now. Last week, Linux creator Linus Torvalds and Linux developer Alan Cox told eWEEK that they will both embrace a new Virtual Memory manager and implement it in forthcoming iterations of the operating system. Cox has, until […]

Alan Cox, the right-hand man to Linus Torvalds, the original developer of the Linux open-source operating system, has told kernel developers that he will not be maintaining the current 2.4 Linux kernel when Torvalds hands it over in a few weeks to concentrate on the 2.5 development tree. In a recent posting on the Advogato […]

The settlement reached between Microsoft and the Department of Justice in the landmark antitrust case was fair and reasonable, but would change the way the company had traditionally done business and delivered software, Bill Gates, Microsofts chairman and chief software architect told the media Friday morning. “We went the extra mile to resolve this case […]