Peter Galli

Microsoft pulled an about-face late last month when it decided not to pursue a separate delivery of the WinFS file system as a stand-alone offering, a move that some observers say is wise. Microsoft first announced it was no longer pursuing the separate delivery of WinFS, or the second beta release of the product, which […]

Editors Note: This is the first in an series of articles that examines Microsofts strategy of gaining market share and driving new solutions to market through its partner base. BOSTON—As Microsoft starts providing software solutions in new areas, like the High Performance Computing and security space – it is once again turning to partners to […]

Microsoft is giving in to the unrelenting pressure to be more open, particularly with regard to its Office Open XML file format and interoperability with the Open Document Format alternative. The company will announce July 6 that it has set up an open-source project to create a series of tools that allow translation between the […]

Microsofts move to set up an open-source project that will allow translation between its Office Open XML format and the OpenDocument Format is a welcome first step, but not a long-term solution to the problem, industry players said on July 6. They were responding to Microsofts announcement of the Open XML Translator project, which will […]

Rich Green, the executive vice president of software at Sun Microsystems, is a very busy man these days. Green, who returned to the Santa Clara, Calif., company in May after software head John Loiacono resigned to take an executive position at Adobe Systems, is not only overseeing the complex process of open-sourcing the companys Java […]

Sun Microsystems plans to deliver support for the Xen virtualization technology in Solaris 10 by the middle of 2007. Sun is preparing to release to OpenSolaris sometime in July a snapshot of code that will run on top of Xen and which provides Dom0 (Domain zero) support using Solaris Dom0, which supports 32-bit and 64-bit […]

Microsoft took many by surprise when it announced in a blog post on June 23 that it is not pursuing the previously planned separate delivery of WinFS or the second beta for the product. Corey Thomas, the group product manager for SQL Server, explained to eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli the rationale behind this decision […]

Now that Microsoft has announced it is not pursuing the separate delivery of WinFS as a stand-alone offering, the Redmond-based software maker is also making clear that it has no intention of discussing its post-Vista plans for Windows and WinFS anytime soon. “A lot of people are asking about the roadmap [for WinFS and Windows] […]

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 […]