Peter Galli

Microsoft is set to unveil a plan to integrate voice technologies with the communications and collaboration experiences the Redmond, Wash., software maker already provides. The new plan is part of Microsofts latest vision for unified communications and will be unveiled by Jeff Raikes, president of the Microsoft Business Division, at an event in San Francisco […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft is taking on both the challenges and opportunities that exist around the current unified communications platform and product lineup. To do this, the Redmond software maker is introducing voice technologies to its current lineup, developing new products and expanding the unified communications features its current products provide, as well as offering services itself […]

SAN FRANCISCO—In spite of the phenomenal growth in usage of Web search, the technology is still at a very early stage and has a long and interesting future ahead of it, said members of a panel discussion on the future of search at the Supernova conference here. But, in the June 22 discussion titled “From […]

Users of Microsoft Office can now choose one of the Creative Commons licenses for work created in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Microsoft and Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works, partnered with 3sharp LLC, a Redmond, Wash.-based independent solution provider to develop and test this new copyright licensing […]

Will the way Microsoft does business change as founder Bill Gates spends more time at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation? Thats the question on everyones lips following Gates June 15 decision to step aside from a day-to-day role to focus on philanthropy. But, so far, there is no consensus among Microsoft executives and analysts, […]

Will the way Microsoft does business, externally and internally, change significantly as founder Bill Gates transitions to spending most of his time at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and a lot less at the Redmond software maker? Thats the question on everyones lips, but there is no consensus among Microsoft executives, financial analysts, researchers […]

BOSTON—Some members of the open-source community are skeptical about Microsofts efforts to bridge incompatibilities between software licensed under the GNU General Public License and its own commercial software. Bob Muglia, the senior vice president of Microsofts server and tools business, told eWEEK in an interview at its annual TechEd developer conference here that the software […]

BOSTON—Hot on the heels of revelations that it is reaching out to the open-source community to find ways of interoperating with software licensed under the GPL, Microsoft announced on June 14 that it has formed an Interoperability Customer Executive Council. The goal of the group is to identify areas for improved interoperability across not just […]

BOSTON—Microsoft Office developers have long been aware of user concerns about bloat in the product, and they have been conducting extensive research and usability testing to address it, said Mark Alexieff, a senior product manager in the companys Information Worker Product Management group, at the annual TechEd developer conference here June 12. “We heard a […]

Development platforms are set to take center stage at Microsofts annual TechEd conference June 11-16 in Boston. Microsoft is expected to talk up new and emerging development platforms at the show, with officials from the Windows Live, Office and Great Plains teams set to extol the virtues of Windows Live, Office 2007 and Dynamics GP, […]

BOSTON—Microsoft has been reaching out to the open-source community to try to find ways to overcome the incompatibilities between software distributed under the GNU General Public License and its own commercial software. “Open source is a way of building software and, in its most basic sense, there is nothing incompatible [between] the concept of open […]

BOSTON—Its time for the Windows and Linux communities to drop the religious war and get together in a hurry to put the strengths of each operating system to best use, according to a nationally recognized authority on Windows Server. There is still a broad knowledge gap about how to get Windows and Linux to work […]