Peter Galli

To hear CEO Steve Ballmer tell it, the biggest challenges facing Microsoft Corp. next year wont come from headline-grabbing issues such as improving security or meeting the rash of “Longhorn” product deadlines. What keeps the Redmond, Wash., software makers charismatic leader up at night is, he says, a growing resolve to compete with search specialists […]

Microsoft Corp. is looking at how best to package its managed services for customers, a move the company hopes will drive it deeper into the services arena. The effort will pit the software maker against partners it once supported. Some of those partners are concerned about the prospect of competing directly with Microsoft. But users […]

Microsoft Corp.s revenue for the third time topped the $10 billion mark in the quarter to end-June, coming in at $10.16 billion, a 9 percent rise over the same period last year. That helped propel the Redmond, Wash., software makers revenue for the full fiscal year ending June 30, 2005, to a record $39.79 billion, […]

Despite the fact that the recent decision by the European Parliament to reject the idea of a uniform patent regime prevents Microsoft Corp. from using its myriad software patents as weapons in Europe, company officials are putting on a brave face. In an interview at the companys Worldwide Partner Conference here earlier this month, Microsoft […]

Open-Xchange, formerly known as Netline Internet Service, announced Thursday that it can now sell Novells SuSE Linux Enterprise Server bundled with its open-source Open-Xchange Server. Under a new agreement with Novell, Open-Xchange Inc. is now also allowed to offer its collaboration server to distributions beyond the Waltham, Mass.-based company, most notably to its largest competitor, […]

Microsoft Corp. officials are considering developing a new server product targeted at midsize businesses, a rapidly growing segment of IT that often must rely on products and technologies designed for much larger organizations. The new version of Windows under consideration would be a bundle similar to Windows Small Business Server 2003, which includes Windows Server […]

Now that IBM has agreed to support Solaris on the x86 hardware platform, Sun Microsystems Inc. executives are hoping that this may be the catalyst for a range of other agreements that could lead to more choices and more flexibility for IT departments. At the top of Suns list is having IBM become the first […]

Saying RSS will be key to the way people use the Internet in the future, Microsoft Corp. plans to integrate the syndication technology directly into “Longhorn,” the next version of Windows. “We are betting big on RSS and creating support for it throughout Longhorn. We believe that RSS is so powerful that it needs to […]

Is Microsoft toning down its aggressive anti-Linux campaign, or is the software giant realizing that playing nice can have the same effect? While the answer is unclear, Microsoft Corp. surprised many of the attendees at its annual worldwide partner show here this weekend by allowing a third party to present a “hands-on lab” that allowed […]

MINNEAPOLIS—Microsoft on Friday outlined some of the possible new scenarios it sees for Office 12, the next version of its pervasive desktop productivity suite. The most likely scenarios for Office 12 include enterprise content life cycle; knowledge directory and insight; unified communications, which would bring instant messaging, telephony and other communications together; and integrating them […]

Microsoft Corp. has its sights squarely set on the midsized business segment and on Thursday will unveil a new product bundle designed for that market. Known as the Windows Server System, this latest bundle brings together several existing products and comes with three copies of the Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, a copy of Exchange […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Microsystems is looking at providing its Java Enterprise System customers with a database solution that will take advantage of existing open-source database technologies, or a product developed in-house. In a wide-ranging interview with eWEEK at the JavaOne conference here, John Loiacono, Sun Microsystems Inc.s executive vice president for software, also addressed the reasons […]