Peter Galli

LOS ANGELES–Microsoft Corp. executives will use this weeks Professional Developers Conference here to make a number of .Net announcements, including the availability of Release Candidate 1 of Visual Studio .Net, the .Net My Services software developers kit and a version of the .Net Compact Framework, sources said. Visual Studio. Net is the centerpiece tool set […]

A growing number of enterprise customers are seriously considering alternatives to Microsoft Corp. products as a result of the companys hard-line approach to its volume licensing programs. While the Redmond, Wash., company may not see immediate fallout from its new licensing plans, the long-term negative impact could be significant if products such as Linux or […]

Microsoft Corp., which last week announced the preview program for its .Net Alerts notification, subscription, management and routing service, is hoping that this and its other Web services to come will spur broad adoption of its single-sign-in Internet authentication technology, Passport, from consumers and enterprise customers. While the Alerts service is a critical part of […]

After failing to reach a negotiated settlement in the time frame imposed by Washington Dis-trict Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, as well as deciding on a mediator, Microsoft Corp. and the U.S. Department of Justice had one appointed for them. Judge Kollar-Kotelly announced on Sunday the appointment of Eric Green, a law professor from Boston University, […]

The Open Source Development Lab will on Monday announce that it is providing software developers access to a code benchmarking tool known as the Scalable Test Platform. As first reported by eWEEK , the tool will provide open source developers with a central resource for the stable and scalable testing of enhancements to the Linux […]

Microsoft Corp. and the Department of Justice have failed to reach a negotiated settlement in the time-frame imposed by Washington District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, sources close to the antitrust case told eWeek on Friday. In an order posted two weeks ago, Kollar-Kotelly told both parties they had until October 12 to again try and […]

There may be a new player in the Microsoft Corp. antitrust case, come Friday. The software maker and the Department of Justice are scheduled to report back to U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington on Friday about the progress on their settlement talks. Kollar-Kotelly ordered two weeks ago that the parties had until […]

The brouhaha surrounding Microsoft Corp.s new volume licensing plans has apparently been good news for companies like Sun Microsystems Inc., which last week announced the beta release of its free StarOffice 6 office productivity suite. Iyer Venkatesan, the product line manager for StarOffice, told eWEEK in an interview Tuesday that there had been more than […]

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday bowed to enormous pressure from customers, altering some of the conditions of its controversial new volume licensing plans and again extending the transition period for them to sign up for its Software Assurance offering. Also on Tuesday, the Redmond, Wash., software developer lost its bid to have the Supreme Court review […]

Microsoft Corp.s latest legal battle—fighting a misleading advertising suit filed by Novell Inc.—could have a negative effect on the outcome of its antitrust case with the Department of Justice. Novell last week filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Utah, accusing Microsoft of false and misleading advertising designed to create fear and uncertainty among […]

As expected Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced the preview program for its .Net Alerts Web service. “This is our first deliverable on our .Net strategy,” said Christopher Payne, vice president of .NET My Services at Microsoft in Redmond, Wash. “Were taking a crawl, work, run view to this and want to nail it for these […]

Microsoft Corp. is putting some meat on its .Net bones, delivering some of the first tangible .Net services on its own and its partners Web properties. Last week, eBay Inc. announced internally the availability of both the Microsoft Alerts and Microsoft Passport services. The company told customers that they could “use .NET Alerts to stay […]