Peter Galli

Saying a federal judges ruling improved the controversial antitrust settlement between Microsoft Corp. and the U.S. Dept. of Justice, the Attorneys General for the nine dissenting states claimed a mixed victory late Friday – but the case may not be closed yet. Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, who has led the coalition of dissenting states, […]

SuSE Linux will release, in January 2003, a desktop product specifically designed to help small to medium-sized businesses migrate to Linux on their workstations. The new product, SuSE Linux Office Desktop, will be available from SuSE Linux resellers at a recommended retail price of $129 per workstation, which includes user manuals and 90 days of […]

Opera Software ASA on Thursday released its Web browser product, Opera 6.1 for Linux, for Intel and PowerPC users, as well as a new port to the FreeBSD Unix operating system. The Opera Web browser is now available on eight different operating systems. The PowerPC version is the first released on this platform since the […]

As Microsoft Corp. continues to try and reassure customers about the ongoing security of its products, the Redmond, Wash., software firm on Tuesday said its Windows 2000 platform has been awarded the Common Criteria certification. The Common Criteria certification is an internationally recognized ISO standard established for evaluating the security of infrastructure technology products. “This […]

Microsoft Corp. has told beta testers of Office 11, its next-version Office desktop productivity suite, that the product will only work with the Windows 2000 operating system with Service Pack 3 installed, Windows XP and later desktop releases. This means that the more than 50 percent of the Redmond, Wash., software companys installed customer base, […]

The Xandros Desktop Linux operating system is finally shipping, more than a year after the company bought Canadian software firm Corel Corp.s Linux desktop distribution and all the licensing rights. The Xandros Desktop product is built on the Linux kernel 2.4.19, XFree86 4.2, Debian 3.0, Corel Linux 3.0 and an enhanced K Desktop Environment. According […]

Microsoft Corp. has sent the first beta of Office 11, its next-version desktop productivity suite, to a core group of several thousand technical testers for evaluation, bug checking and comment. The Redmond, Wash., software company, which will announce the release of the beta on Tuesday, has high expectations for this Office upgrade, which it is […]

LAS VEGAS—Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced the release of its Windows XP embedded operating system with Service Pack 1, meeting its promise to deliver new Windows XP Embedded technologies within 90 days of the client release. Keith White, senior director of Microsofts Embedded and Appliance Platform group, told a press briefing on Tuesday morning here […]

Xandros Inc. is giving users and businesses one more reason to try Linux on the desktop—with applications that mimic Windows ease of use and interface. To achieve that, Xandros, in Ottawa, which bought Corel Corp.s Linux desktop distribution in August last year, signed a deal to integrate CodeWeavers Inc.s CrossOver technology into the Xandros Desktop […]

DaimlerChrysler has found an innovative way to cut costs: It is using a Linux cluster based on IBM workstations to perform impact analysis simulation at faster speeds and a lower cost. An IBM spokesman told eWEEK that the Chrysler Group, a unit of DaimlerChrysler, is the first automotive company to take advantage of the price […]