Peter Galli

LOS ANGELES—Attendees at Microsofts Professional Developer Conference on Tuesday morning got to see the first live public demonstration ever of Windows Vista and Office 12 running together. Both of these products are still under development and due for release in the second half of 2006. In the opening keynote, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect […]

In line with its strategy to target the long-neglected midmarket business segment with products designed for that sectors specific needs, Microsoft Corp. is working on a new infrastructure server software solution that bundles together a number of its leading products. Centro, the code name for the new product, will bring together Windows Server “Longhorn”; the […]

Microsoft on Friday issued a mea culpa for not doing its due diligence before sending Linux and open-source luminary Eric Raymond an e-mail expressing interest in having him work for the Redmond software giant. But Microsoft Corp. spokesman Mark Martin told eWEEK on Friday that the company remains committed to employing talented people—regardless of their […]

REDMOND, Wash.—With his usual boundless energy and optimism, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took to the stage at the Business Summit here Wednesday to sell the companys vision for the midmarket segment. He fielded a question about how midmarket customers should think about Linux, one of Microsoft Corp.s biggest competitive threats. “If you ask me, you […]

REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft executives on Wednesday formally announced the role-based Microsoft Dynamics initiative, formerly known by the code name Project Green, as well as confirming that Office 12 was on track to ship in 2006, even though it has not yet gone into beta testing. The announcements came as the software giant hosts some 700 of […]

Microsoft Corp. is recognizing the specific needs of the midmarket with a new infrastructure software solution under development known as Centro, which will be released in 2007 as part of the “Longhorn” wave of products. Centro is specifically tailored to address the needs of the midmarket segment, which Microsoft defines as those customers with between […]

Martin Taylor, Microsoft Corp.s general manager of platform strategy, recently approached Open Source Development Labs Inc., in Beaverton, Ore., to consider ways in which the two could conduct a joint research project to do some fact-based analysis of Linux and Windows. OSDL CEO Stuart Cohen talked to eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli about OSDLs future […]

Some prominent figures in the Linux community believe that as enterprises increase their use of Linux on the desktop, Microsoft Corp. will be forced to consider offering a version of Office for Linux—or at least make its software more interoperable with open-source desktop productivity suites. “When the [Linux desktop] market share gets to a certain […]

IBM seems to be following in Microsofts footsteps. On Tuesday, IBM held a roundtable conference call to highlight the findings of two recent Linux research reports it had sponsored. The issue of sponsored research has long been a controversial one, with Microsoft coming under fire for its “Get the Facts” campaign, which largely uses Microsoft […]

Microsoft made the first release candidate for Windows Server 2003 R2, which is an update release of the Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 operating system, available via download Tuesday. The code for RC0 (release candidate 0) can be downloaded from Microsoft Corp.s Web site. This is the first release candidate since the product […]

As IBM moves to capitalize on the huge growth in software development outside the United States, it is taking on a new role: virtual mentor. The goal is to help ISVs and developers, specifically those in emerging markets such as China, India, Russia and Brazil, but also those across the globe, build solutions based on […]

The next stable update of the Linux kernel will bring advances in file system event monitoring and the Xtensa architecture as well as the ability to load another kernel from the currently executing Linux kernel. While the 2.6.13 release candidates are being tested, the final stable version is expected to be released in the next […]