Peter Galli

Microsoft Corp. is simplifying the licensing for Windows Server System products that are used in virtual machine environments as it continues to try to drive customers toward self-managing dynamic systems. The Redmond, Wash., software giant will announce on Monday that it has decided to shift away from charging Windows Server System users licensing fees at […]

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected two key Microsoft patent applications relating to its File Allocation Table file system. But Microsoft officials still hold out hope that the company ultimately will succeed in the quest to patent FAT. In June 2004 the USPTO (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) said it would re-examine the […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Sun Microsystems and Google on Tuesday announced a partnership that will see the two Silicon Valley firms distribute and promote each others software technologies. Under the agreement, the two firms will explore opportunities to promote and enhance Sun technologies like the OpenOffice.org desktop productivity suite and the Java Runtime Environment. Sun will also […]

With the first beta for Microsoft Corp.s upcoming Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Solution barely out the door, the development team is already thinking seriously about features and functionality designed to make the next version of the product even easier to use and manage than its Linux competitor. The feature-complete beta for Compute Cluster Solution, […]

Microsofts annual Most Valuable Professional Global Summit kicks off today as some 1,500 such professionals from 72 different countries and representing 90 Microsoft technologies stream onto the companys Redmond campus for three days of networking with each other and with Microsofts product development teams. Microsoft Corp. currently has a total of about 3,000 MVPs, with […]

Windows Vista is taking on a decidedly enterprise focus, with many features being designed specifically for the IT professional, from enhanced security and monitoring to new diagnostic tools, better stability and fewer reboots. Vista, due next year, will introduce an event log that has been revamped and will give IT professionals organized and aggregated system […]

Microsoft Corp. officials last week took the lid off the new results-oriented user interface in Office 12, the next version of its Office System family of products. The new UI replaces the traditional menus and tool bars with a set of graphical command tabs that correspond to the tasks that people want to accomplish. But […]

Microsoft Corp.s professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles last week was perhaps the Redmond, Wash., companys most important event of the year, as officials try to sell developers on the value of creating new applications for the companys next generation of products. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talked with eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli at the […]

Windows Vista will bring many enterprise-level features designed specifically for the IT professional, from enhanced security and monitoring to new diagnostic tools and far fewer reboots. It will also introduce a new event log that has been totally revamped and which will give IT professionals well-organized views that can be aggregated together. They will also […]

LOS ANGELES—In a move that shows just how far Microsoft Corp. has come, and how pervasive open-source software is in certain areas, the software powerhouse is, for the first time, including open-source technology in one of its shipping products. Microsoft plans to include the Message Passing Interface—a library specification for message passing proposed as a […]

LOS ANGELES—Microsoft Corp. this week released the first public beta for its Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition, which is designed to address the high-performance computing needs of its customers, particularly at the departmental and workgroup levels, and forms part of the Windows Server line of products. The announcement of the beta, which is functionally […]

LOS ANGELES—Bob Muglia, Microsoft Corp.s senior vice president for Windows Server, on Thursday shed some light on the upcoming Windows Server 2003 R2 release during his keynote address at the Professional Developers Conference here. R2, which is due later this year, would bring features such as Services for Unix, the WS-Management standard, along with the […]