Peter Galli

“There are a number of things that are not spelled out explicitly in the decision itself. I am hopeful that we can have the kind of conversation that will enable us to know with confidence what we must do and what we can do in other areas, and I am hopeful that we can do […]

Microsofts friends and foes weighed in on the Sep. 17 landmark appeals ruling by the European Court of First Instance that the software maker had abused its dominant position by refusing to make its products interoperable with those of its rivals and by tying Windows Media Player to the Windows operating system. The full ruling […]

EU Court Strikes Down Microsoft Appeal of Antitrust Ruling”> The European Court of First Instance upheld on Sept. 17 the findings of the European Commission that Microsoft abused its dominant position by refusing to make its products interoperable with those of its rivals and by tying Windows Media Player to the Windows operating system. The […]

Microsoft is trying to ensure that when daylight-saving time ends and Americans turn the clock back in the first week of November, the experience is seamless. That was not the case on March 11, when daylight-saving time started three weeks earlier than usual. It will also end a week later than usual, on Nov. 4, […]

Microsoft and Novell on Sept. 12 will open their 2,500-square-foot interoperability lab in Cambridge, Mass., where technical experts from both companies will collaborate on technologies to help Windows Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise work well together. The technical work between Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash., and Novell, of Waltham, Mass., has already been under way for […]

Sun Microsystems and Microsoft have significantly expanded their existing relationship in an agreement that makes Sun a Windows Server 2003 OEM that will sell, pre-install and support that server software across its entire server hardware line. Windows Server 2003 will be available on Sun x64 systems within 90 days, and Sun will also provide other […]

Microsoft to Deliver Windows Server 2008 RC1 “> As VMware steps into the virtualization limelight in San Francisco at its VMworld conference Sept. 11, Microsoft is trying to steal some of that thunder by making a number of announcements of its own. Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash., is announcing that it plans to deliver the first […]

Azaleos is expanding its OneServer product line to include a managed virtual appliance for Microsoft Exchange 2007 that supports the VMware platform. A technology preview of the new product will be available starting Sept. 11 for early pilots and is being demonstrated at the VMWorld conference Sept. 11-14 in San Francisco. The final price of […]

Microsoft is touting BMW and Siemens as the latest enterprises to sign up for the three-year priority support certificates for Novells SUSE Linux Enterprise Server it offers, which are designed to help them run Windows and SUSE Linux Enterprise systems seamlessly together. But the timing of Microsofts release of these two separate deals is interesting, […]

Microsoft is stepping up the pressure on virtualization leader VMware on the management tools front, releasing its System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 product to manufacturing. The Redmond, Wash., software maker also plans to support some third-party virtualization software, including VMware and open-source Xen, in the next version of the product. The news comes as […]

Microsoft Simplifies Its Volume Licensing Programs”> Microsoft is trying to simplify its complex volume licensing programs and the customer agreements that fall under them. As part of that initiative, the Redmond, Wash., software maker has slashed the number of price points and product SKUs in the different programs, and updated the language and the content […]

Microsoft may have lost the battle to have its Office Open XML file formats approved as an ISO standard, but the war is far from over. The Redmond, Wash., companys OOXML (Office Open XML) file formats failed to achieve the two-thirds vote needed for approval as an international standard by the International Organization for Standardization, […]