Peter Galli

NEW YORK—Microsoft and Cisco talked publicly for the first time about several of the seven focus areas on which they are currently collaborating, which include IT architecture, management, Unified Communications and security. At an event held at the Mandarin Oriental hotel here in New York on August 20 to discuss the interoperability work between them, […]

NEW YORK—The work Microsoft and Cisco Systems are doing with virtualization is highly complementary, Ciscos chief development officer Charlie Giancarlo said August 20. In an interview with eWEEK along with Bob Muglia, Microsofts senior vice president for server and tools, Giancarlo said Cisco was looking at virtualizing the network hardware environment, including the processors in […]

NEW YORK – Microsoft and Cisco Systems are working hard together on the future of the data center and, as that gets redefined going forward, it will bring new areas of competition and opportunity, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said August 20. In a discussion held at the Mandarin Oriental hotel here in New York and […]

Editors Note: This is the third and final in a series of articles based on an interview with Microsoft COO Kevin Turner that examine the software companys current focus, strategy, challenges and opportunities. Microsoft currently faces three primary threats to its future business: Linux and other open-source software, cloud-based computing and a number of players […]

Microsoft is licensing the audio watermarking technology developed in its research labs to Activated Content, a digital technology and application services company. Microsofts audio watermarking technology consists of digital audio software tools that will enable Activated Content to insert and extract non-secure data into audio files that they can use to offer additional services to […]

Could Citrix Systems purchase of XenSource for $500 million be a prelude to Microsofts acquisition of Citrix? Some analysts, like Brenon Daly and his colleagues at The 451 Group, in San Francisco, think so. “Citrix built a $1 billion-plus business on the back of its access to Microsoft source code. XenSources exclusive access to Microsofts […]

Microsoft has made a minor update to Windows Live Hotmail, the first since it launched the new service on May 7. Redmond started making the update available to customers this week in a rollout that is expected to take several weeks. Windows Live Hotmail is the successor to MSN Hotmail. It was under development for […]

Exchange 2007 SP1 Moves a Step Closer”> Microsoft has opened up the second beta for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 to more than a million Microsoft Developer Network and TechNet subscribers under a new technology preview program. More than 150,000 technical adoption customers have been testing the first private beta of the service pack, […]

Will Microsoft handle the release of Windows “7,” the next version of the operating system, slated for 2010, a lot better than it did with Windows Vista? We can only hope that Microsoft will do a better job of making clear which hardware will run which of the many versions of Windows 7 that are […]

Microsoft has submitted two of its Shared Source licenses to the Open Source Initiative for review and approval as open-source licenses: the Microsoft Permissive and Microsoft Community licenses. The Redmond, Wash., software company did not submit the Microsoft Reference, Microsoft Limited Permissive or the Microsoft Limited Community licenses to the OSI for review. The move […]

Microsoft has lost the first round in a legal battle over whether its Windows Vista Capable and Express Upgrade programs were deceptive and led consumers to buy PCs that could only run the most basic version of the operating system. The case was brought against the software giant, based in Redmond, Wash., by lead plaintiff […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft is not working on optimizing the virtualization of Windows Vista or Windows XP on top of Linux, Sam Ramji, the director of Microsofts open-source software lab, said at the annual LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here Aug. 7. While Microsoft does provide customers with licenses to run the two Windows operating systems in a […]