Peter Galli

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday scored a victory in its ongoing legal battle with the Department of Justice and state attorneys general by independently settling its antitrust case with the state of New Mexico. The settlement still leaves 18 states united against the Redmond, Wash., software giant, but legal sources say others could follow suit. New […]

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced major concessions relating to the inclusion of its Internet Explorer browser in the Windows operating system, following the recent findings of a U.S. Court of Appeals that a number of its past licensing policies were “restrictive, anti-competitive and violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act.” Microsoft today said it had […]

In a change of course, Microsoft Corp. wants interested parties to propose new Web services based on its HailStorm platform and then collaborate with the Redmond, Wash., software company in the creation and deployment of these services. But theres a caveat: Microsoft has not guaranteed that this technology and intellectual property will be shared by […]

The unanimous decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals last week that Microsoft Corp. engaged in anticompetitive activity to maintain its monopoly in the operating system market had both Microsoft and the Department of Justice claiming victory. However, as Microsoft rolled out its top brass to laud the ruling—which also vacated Judge Thomas Penfield Jacksons […]

The U.S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today set aside the breakup of Microsoft Corp. proposed last year by District Court Judge Thomas Jackson Penfield and sent the case back to the lower court. And, as expected, the court said the case should be heard by a new judge. But, significantly, […]

Microsoft Corp.s head wireless executive is leaving his job, and it is certainly not because he finished it. Paul Gross, senior vice president for the Mobility Group, wants to spend more time with his family, according to company officials. But sources close to the situation report that Gross was encouraged to leave because various initiatives […]

Despite Microsoft Corp.s confidence that it will ultimately prevail in its federal court battle, critics feel the company is playing with fire in its recent maneuvers. With Microsofts inclusion of so-called smart tags and other technologies in the forthcoming Windows XP operating system, legal experts say the company is practicing the same types of behavior […]

Linux vendors and their partners are not losing any sleep over the discrepancies in recent research estimates of the actual penetration Linux has had among enterprise servers. Gartner Dataquests new study—sponsored in part by Microsoft Corp.—showed that only 8.6 percent of all new server shipments in the third quarter of last year ran Linux. But […]

Microsoft Corp. and AOL Time Warner Inc. moved closer last week to an agreement to bundle the AOL online service client with the forthcoming Windows XP operating system, which would significantly strengthen the two most powerful online companies. But sources close to the negotiations say the deal is facing big hurdles as well as opposition […]

Even as Microsoft Corp. rolled out its latest desktop applications suite, all indications were that Office XP was going to be the last of its kind. Thats mainly because the Redmond, Wash., companys future will rely increasingly on its .Net platform and its subscription-based services model. This was evidenced last week during the Office XP […]

As Microsoft Corp. prepares for the launch this week of Office XP, the next version of its ubiquitous desktop suite, corporate users are weighing their options—and finding few. None of the traditional options—to upgrade for additional features, to sit tight or to switch to another platform altogether—satisfies all the needs of IT managers and users. […]

The Linux revolution is turning into an evolution, with its prospects on the server and client splitting into two distinct paths of unequal fortune. The disparity in the successes of Linux came to the fore last week when new TPC-H benchmarks showed that IBMs upcoming DB2 7.2 database running on Linux 2.4.3 outperformed Microsoft Corp.s […]