Peter Galli

If at times Microsoft has seemed vague in describing its software plus services initiative and the Live application strategy, its because the company simply hasnt completely figured them out yet. So says Kevin Turner, Microsofts chief operating officer, who is helping lead the charge to get partners, developers and customers excited about this new direction […]

REDMOND, Wash.— Microsoft Windows will run more PCs than there are cars in the world by the end of Microsofts fiscal year 2008, said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer July 26 at the companys analyst day here. The software giant announced it sold 60 million copies of Windows Vista this year, more than the entire installed […]

Microsoft will submit its Shared Source licenses to the Open Source Initiative for review and approval as open-source licenses. Bill Hilf, general manager of platform strategy at Microsoft, used his keynote address at the annual OReilly Open Source Conference in Portland, Ore. on July 26 to discuss Microsofts evolving open-source strategy. As part of that, […]

BMC Software has announced a new developer network, several open-source projects and its support of a single permissive license: the OSI-approved BSD license. The company used O’Reilly’s annual Open Source Convention here in Portland to announce the immediate availability of the open-source projects, which have been built with its customers and partners, such as its […]

The next version of Sugar Community Edition will be licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3 when it is made available later this year. The announcement was made by John Roberts, SugarCRM’sCEO, during a panel discussion at the annual O’Reilly Open Source Conference about who gets to decide what open source means. “Sugar […]

Intel is open-sourcing its Threading Building Blocks 2.0 software, a C++ template library that simplifies the development of software applications running in parallel. The Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker will use announce on July 24 at the annual Oscon (OReilly Open Source Convention) in Portland that the source code is now available as an open-source […]

A global survey of open-source enterprise users of Alfresco software has found that deployments of Red Hat Linux have grown twice as fast as those for Novell SUSE Linux since Novell signed its controversial patent and interoperability agreement with Microsoft in November 2006. Alfresco Software, an open-source enterprise content management provider, surveyed more than 10,000 […]

As consumers gradually upgrade to Windows Vista, tech support firms are beginning to field an increasing number of calls from consumers looking for help with Microsofts new operating system. “Vista-related tech support is currently a small but expanding part of our business,” said Anthony Rodio, a senior vice president at SupportSoft, which runs Support.com, a […]

Microsoft is exploring new business models for Office in the emerging world, which includes expanding its pay-as-you-go pricing for Office 2003 in South Africa and Romania. The Redmond, Wash., software maker announced July 17 a new offering, known as Microsoft Office Prepaid, for Office 2007 in those two developing countries. It will be priced at […]

Microsofts revenue for the fiscal year to end June 2007 topped the $50 billion mark on the back of solid performances from its core operations and the release of Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange Server 2007. The software maker, based in Redmond, Wash., reported July 19 that revenue for the full fiscal year was […]

Microsoft has suffered a setback in the quest to have its Open XML document format approved as an ISO standard. A vote on July 13 by the committee established to formulate the United States position on whether or not to support the application for ISO approval failed to achieve the two-thirds majority necessary to approve […]

Microsoft will move a step closer to its stated goal of providing small businesses with an all-inclusive search engine marketing service July 17 when it adds the Ask Sponsored Listings from the Ask.com search engine to its Microsoft Office Live AdManager service. The move will see the Ask Sponsored Listings join MSN and Live Search […]