Peter Galli

Microsoft Corp. officials have hinted at interim releases of both the Windows server and client before Longhorn, the next major Windows upgrade due to ship in late 2006 or later. Bob Muglia, senior vice president of Microsofts Windows Server Division, sat down at last weeks Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas to talk with eWEEK […]

SuSE Linux, now part of Novell Inc., on Thursday will announce that its SuSE Linux 9.1 personal and professional editions will be available in early May. The company says these are also the first complete commercial Linux distributions to support the recently released Linux 2.6 kernel. The update is also the first Linux distribution from […]

LAS VEGAS—Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday cancelled the keynote address by Steve Ballmer, its CEO, which was scheduled for Wednesday morning at its annual Microsoft Management Summit here. While a Microsoft spokeswoman would only say that Ballmers schedule had changed and that he was no longer available to give the keynote, sources close to the Redmond, […]

LAS VEGAS—Microsoft Corp. executives on Tuesday spent a lot of time talking up the Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI), which is the companys vision and technology roadmap for reducing the cost of managing and securing enterprise systems. Bob Muglia, the senior vice president of Microsofts Windows Server Division, told the hundreds of delegates at its annual […]

Jason Matusow, who heads Microsoft Corp.s Shared Source Program, discussed with eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli the recent source code leak, what it means for security and whether Microsoft plans any changes to the program. How do licensees actually get access to Microsofts source code under your Shared Source and Government Security programs? We provide […]

The leak of some of Microsoft Corp.s Windows source code on the Internet last month has elevated the discussion about why the software company believes it needs to protect its code so fiercely when other vendors are more liberal with access to their proprietary source code. The leak has also raised doubts about Microsofts commitment […]

The cat is finally out of the bag: Microsoft Corp. acted as the matchmaker for the $50 million investment led by BayStar Capital into The SCO Group Inc. last October. Microsoft has denied for months that it had any role in that investment, but a BayStar official on Thursday confirmed to eWEEK that Microsoft had […]

After months of ratcheting up threats to sue enterprise Linux users, The SCO Group last week filed lawsuits against DaimlerChrysler Corp. and AutoZone Inc. in a move that legal experts and members of the open-source community said is a make-or-break turning point for the Lindon, Utah, company. They question how SCO, which is already engaged […]

Linux vendors as well as leaders of the open-source community have dismissed The SCO Group Inc.s latest lawsuits against two Linux users as a last ditch attempt by the Lindon, Utah, company to save itself. They are also all committed to banding together to fight the company in these and any future lawsuits, and do […]

The SCO Group Inc.s latest lawsuits against two Linux users, AutoZone, Inc., and DaimlerChrysler Corp., are very different and bring their own set of legal challenges for the Lindon, Utah, company. Mark Radcliffe, a Linux expert and licensing attorney at the national technology law firm Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich in Palo Alto, Calif., says […]

Computer Associates International Inc. is the latest company to admit publicly that it has signed up for The SCO Group Inc.s intellectual property (IP) license for Linux. SCO, of Lindon, Utah, began selling its SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux last September. The run-time license lets buyers use any of the companys intellectual property that […]

The leak of some of Microsoft Corp.s Windows source code this month highlights the struggle proprietary software companies face in providing developers, partners and customers access to the code while protecting their own intellectual property. Although the source code leak, discovered Feb. 12, wont change the way Microsoft shares some Windows code through its Shared […]