Peter Galli

The status conference between the government and Microsoft Corp. that was scheduled to be held before District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly on Nov. 5 has been moved to Nov. 2 due to a scheduling conflict with the governments legal counsel. In a court order issued late Tuesday and following a telephone conference with the parties, Kollar-Kotelly […]

Microsoft Corp. and the Department of Justice have just two weeks to reach a negotiated settlement in the antitrust case by themselves, otherwise U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly will appoint an external mediator to assist. In an order posted late Friday, Kollar-Kotelly told the parties they have until Oct. 12 to settle the antitrust case […]

The first beta of Sun Microsystems Inc.s upcoming Solaris 9 operating environment for network servers is now available for download from the companys Web site. Users can download the Solaris 9 operating environment through Suns Early Access program. But, contrary to previous expectations, GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) 2.0 will not be the desktop […]

The third beta of Microsoft Corp.s upcoming Windows .Net Server line will be released before the end of the year, according to Cliff Reeves, vice president of the Windows .Net Server Solutions Group, the time frame the company had hoped to ship the final version of the products. Reeves, who gave the keynote address at […]

Novell Inc. on Monday filed suit in the Salt Lake City District Court against Microsoft Corp. for “making and distributing false and misleading statements about Novell and its products in violation of state and federal laws,” Joe LaSala, a Novell senior vice president and its general counsel, told eWEEK late Monday. The brouhaha revolves around […]

Microsoft Corp.s new plans for subscription-based software licenses for volume customers will go into effect this week, despite cries of foul from many enterprises. The license agreements, including the new Software Assurance program, essentially commit companies to buying operating system and application upgrades for an annual fee. The only alternative for users is to shun […]

Software vendors and customers are looking to the federal government and government contractors to help compensate for the anticipated spending cutbacks from enterprise and consumer clients. The effects of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, combined with a slowing economy, major layoffs and the lowest level of consumer confidence in five years, have […]

The Open Source Development Lab has created a code benchmarking tool–known as the Scalable Test Platform–that it says will allow developers to easily test their Linux kernel patches from a variety of tests and server configurations. Tim Witham, the director of the OSDL–an independent, non-profit lab designed for developers who are adding enterprise capabilities to […]

Opponents of Microsoft Corp.s newest operating system, Windows XP, today turned the heat up further on the Redmond, Wash., software maker. Four leading consumer organizations today added to the chorus of critics of Windows XP, warning that Microsofts new bundle of software and Internet services would “extend and deepen the companys illegal monopoly and cause […]

Microsoft Corp. last week announced an initiative that it hopes will facilitate a trusted, interoperable authentication network across the Internet. But the Redmond, Wash., software maker also hopes the move will help spur adoption and usage of its Passport authentication service and, ultimately, its Web services. The company is proposing something its calling Internet Trust […]

Microsoft Corp. and the Federal Government are headed for a showdown over exactly what remedies should be imposed on the software maker for its anti-competitive behavior. The two parties disagreed on nearly every issue in last weeks joint status report filed before Washington District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, leading antitrust experts to caution that the magnitude […]

Microsoft Corp. is working on a wave of new technologies for the consumer and the enterprise customer that it hopes will change the face of technology as we know it. Many of the algorithms, agents, security methods and other projects being developed by Microsoft Research focus on distributing processing and intelligence all the way out […]