Peter Galli

SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Microsystems made the third, and latest, update to Solaris 10 available for download on Dec. 11, which is the most secure version of the operating system ever released, Tom Goguen, the vice president of systems software at Sun, said at a media event here. Goguen also used the event to announce that Sun […]

Microsoft has hit back at critics, including IBM, which voted against approving the software companys Office Open XML format as an Ecma standard, claiming it is nothing more than a vendor-dictated specification that documents proprietary products via XML. Ecma International announced the approval of the new standard Dec. 6 following a meeting of its general […]

Microsofts Office OpenXML has been approved as an Ecma standard and will now also be submitted for consideration as an ISO international standard. Ecma International announced the approval of the new standard on Dec. 6 following a meeting of its general assembly. Ecma will also begin the fast track process for adoption of the Office […]

IBM has thrown its weight behind the use of the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol standard for interoperability, and will announce on Dec. 6 that Lotus Sametime 7.5 instant messaging customers can now communicate with users of AIM and Google Talk, and will be able to do so with Yahoo Messenger in a matter of […]

About half of the average business PCs in North America are unable to meet the minimum requirements for Microsofts Windows Vista operating system, while 94 percent do not meet the system requirements for Vista Premium. Within these figures, 41 percent and 78 percent, respectively, require RAM upgrades to meet the minimum and premium system requirements […]

NEW YORK—The launch of Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange 2007 for businesses is the most significant release of the flagship products in Microsofts history, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Nov. 30. In a media keynote at the Nasdaq Stock Exchange here to officially announce the business launch and availability of the products to volume-license […]

As Microsoft prepares for the official business launch of Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 on Nov. 30, customer upgrades and partner solution rollouts based on the new technologies may not happen as quickly as Redmond would like. Many customers do not plan an immediate upgrade to the new products, while partners will […]

Could Microsoft products be in violation of some of the patents that cover Linux and open-source technologies, as many in the community believe? Microsoft is not admitting to any such thing, but it is also not ruling out the possibility that Windows may have infringed on patents held by Novell and others in the open-source […]

While Microsoft is hoping to enter into a patent deal with Red Hat similar to the one it has with Novell, the software company has not ruled out going it alone and providing some sort of indemnification for its customers who use Red Hat Linux. Earlier this month, Microsoft agreed not to assert patent rights […]

Just weeks after its controversial patent cooperation agreement with Microsoft, Novell is hitting out at statements made by Microsoft executives that the deal acknowledges that Linux infringes on its intellectual property. Novell has been under fire from many members of the Linux and open-source community since entering into a set of broad collaboration agreements with […]

/zimages/6/140307.jpg BARCELONA, Spain—Now that Windows Vista and Office 2007 have been released to manufacturing, the spotlight is on Windows Server “Longhorn.” Bob Muglia, Microsofts senior vice president for server and tools sat down with eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli at TechEd: IT Forum here to give an update on Longhorns road map, discuss the companys […]

BARCELONA, Spain—Microsoft plans to ship Windows Server “Longhorn” and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 at the same time, expected to be in the second half of next year. The Redmond, Wash., software maker plans to release another Longhorn CTP (Community Technology Preview) later this year, followed by another CTP in early 2007 and then Longhorn […]