Peter Galli

A longstanding disagreement between open-source ERP and CRM company Compiere and some of its users has resulted in the creation of a new, spin-off open-source project known as Adempiere. The new Adempiere project was set up on SourceForge in September. An open-source developer who asked not to be named told eWEEK that the dispute between […]

Microsoft made the newest upgrade for its Web browser, Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP, available for download Oct. 18. The browser, which can be downloaded at no cost from here, is currently available only in English and runs on Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows XP 64-bit Edition and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack […]

Microsoft plans to deliver a set of new software tools designed to remove some of the pain enterprises experience when deploying and managing desktops and applications. The software giant is bundling four of the technologies it has acquired over the past few months into an offering known as the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software […]

Microsoft has decided to make its Virtual Hard Disk image format specification available to users at no cost and with the guarantee that it will never take legal action against them. The VHD format will now be available to anybody wanting to use it under Microsofts Open Specification Promise, which the Redmond, Wash.-based software maker […]

Microsoft is upping the partner ante as it prepares to release Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange 2007 over the next few months. To help get partner applications built to run on, and take advantage of, these three products, the Redmond, Wash., software maker is rolling out two new partner initiatives: the International ISV Assistance […]

Microsoft has settled its differences with the European Commission and South Korea, meaning that Windows Vista is on track for worldwide release to volume license business customers in November and for consumers in January 2007. The company has been talking to the Korea Fair Trade Commission as well as the EC and European Union Competition […]

As Microsoft aggressively starts to prepare the market for the debut of Windows Vista, it will use the Digital Life trade show in New York Oct. 12 to announce the holiday availability of PCs, software, hardware and games that will work with Vista, even though the operating system will not be available to consumers until […]

Microsoft has restructured its Windows Core Operating System Division into five teams in a move designed to better focus on PC hardware and provide a richer set of customer solutions. The software giant is also making changes on the security front by bringing its security, Trustworthy Computing and Engineering Excellence teams together in one group, […]

Rick Devenuti, the senior vice president of enterprise services and IT at Microsoft, is retiring after 19 years at the company “to focus his attention on his family and consider his next challenge.” Devenuti is slated to leave the company at the end of December and Microsoft hopes to appoint his replacement within the next […]

Microsoft is losing another senior executive with a long history at the software maker. Rick Devenuti, senior vice president of enterprise services and IT, will be retiring after 19 years with Microsoft “to focus his attention on his family and consider his next challenge,” a spokesperson told eWEEK in an e-mail statement Oct. 11. Devenuti […]

Microsoft has released what it says should be the final test build of Windows Vista, which it is calling RC2. The software giant also notified Office 2007 testers on Oct. 6 that the product is set to be released to manufacturing in a few weeks. The Vista RC 2 release, Build 5744, is being made […]

The long and oft-delayed journey toward the release of Windows Vista entered the home stretch Oct. 6 when Microsoft released what is likely the final test build, Release Candidate 2. “Microsoft expects the RC2 build to be the last interim release before the product is released to manufacturing. As we stated from the beginning of […]