Year: 2006
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OnForce’s Gilroy to Step Down by January
Categories: News and TrendsKevin Gilroy, CEO of OnForce announced on Oct. 23 that he will leave the company at the end of December, barely a year into his tenure. Gilroy will remain a shareholder and a “strategic advisor” to the company, which operates an online marketplace for IT services, the company said in a prepared statement. Gilroy joined… Read more
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Open-Source Firms Reward Developers with Xboxes
Categories: News and TrendsWhat does it take to get an open-source developer to write a piece of software code or perhaps find and fix bugs in a company’s existing code? A Microsoft Xbox, it appears. Just ask Stormy Peters, an original founder of Hewlett-Packard’s Open Source Program Office and currently the director of project management at OpenLogic, which… Read more
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Microsoft Finally Reveals Plans for Upgrades to Vista
Categories: News and TrendsMicrosoft has finally revealed the much anticipated details of its program to let customers who buy a PC that is Windows Vista capable over the holiday season upgrade to the new operating system. Microsoft officials have said they are on track for a release of Vista to volume license business customers in November, and to… Read more
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IDC: Microsoft ISVs Outperforming Peers
Categories: News and TrendsISVs participating in Microsoft’s competency program are more successful than their peers, even those building on Microsoft but outside the program, according to an IDC report released in October. Microsoft ISV/Software Solutions Competency partners outperform ISVs building on alternative operating systems and those Microsoft shops working outside the program in 10 of 11 of key… Read more
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Bundling Technology
Categories: News and TrendsMicrosoft plans to deliver a set of new software tools designed to remove some of the pain enterprises experience when deploying and managing desktops and applications. The company is bundling four of the technologies it has acquired over the past few months into an offering known as the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance.… Read more
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Microsoft Opens Access to Its Sender ID Spec
Categories: News and TrendsMicrosoft has made the Sender ID framework specification for e-mail authentication available to users at no cost and with the guarantee that it will never take legal action against them. The Sender ID specification will now be available to anybody wanting to use it under Microsoft’s Open Specification Promise. The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker issued… Read more