Peter Galli

DENVER—The big-picture message Microsoft executives will try to convey at its annual Worldwide Partner Conference that kicks off here July 10 is that software plus services is the future. Underscoring this message is the fact that CEO Steve Ballmer will use his keynote to announce a partnering framework for Microsoft around software plus services. Speaker […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Enterprise IT users are looking for the major Linux vendors to update their enterprise products less frequently and to give them much more guidance about what is included in the patches and upgrades. That was the message from users at the Open Source Business Conference here May 22, who spoke about the […]

Stuart Cohen, former CEO of Open Source Development Labs, is launching a new company April 16 that will focus on building non-competitive, essential software for vertical industries in a collaborative environment that helps companies solve shared IT problems. The business model for Collaborative Software Initiative is simple: Develop and support essential code that does not […]

Microsoft has pushed back the release of the first public beta for Windows Server virtualization, code-named Viridian, from the first half of 2007 until the second half of the year so that it can meet its internal goals for performance and scalability. Viridian is Microsoft’s Windows hypervisor technology that will run beneath the operating system […]

Microsoft has made changes to its licensing model for Windows Vista to meet the needs of enterprise customers in the finance and government sectors using bleeding-edge technologies. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant will announce April 2 a subscription license called Windows Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktops, which allows customers to use Windows in virtual machines centralized […]

While Microsoft officials say the worst of the problems regarding the daylight-saving time change that took place March 11 have passed, some customers are still complaining of “nightmare” issues with Outlook and their calendars. This year, DST (daylight-saving time) started three weeks earlier than customary, and will end a week later than usual on Nov. […]

Windows Vista and Office 2007 finally saw the light of day on Jan. 30. Chris Capossela, who manages the Microsoft Office System family of products, talked to eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli about the products, the experience and the future. The Office 2007 System brings some 34 Office suites, programs, servers, services and tools. Microsoft […]

Microsoft is trying to incentivize its largest indirect hardware partners and system builders to preinstall Office 2007 on their systems, before these are sold to resellers, by offering them a referral payment when end users activate the license on those machines. Qualified Microsoft partners were invited to participate in the Referral Payment Pilot Program for […]

Microsoft is trying to dampen criticism by explaining its controversial decision to unify the rendering and editing engines in Outlook 2007 and use only the Word 2007 engine, even though there are some HTML and Cascading Style Sheet attributes that the engine does not currently support. The move is a significant change from previous versions […]

Red Hat, facing increased competition from the Novell/Microsoft alliance and Oracle, has won a new enterprise customer: Union Bank of California. Union Bank, which is one of the 25 largest banks in the country and has 320 branch offices in California, Washington and Oregon, will standardize its IT infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a […]

While Microsoft managed to post record quarterly revenue of $12.54 billion for the second quarter of its fiscal year, which ended Dec. 31, exceeding even the high end of its own projections, it also recorded a 28 percent fall in quarterly net profit after deferring some $1.6 billion in revenue. The Redmond, Wash., software company, […]

Microsoft plans to roll out a new release of its Windows Live OneCare managed security service to consumers in the United States and 16 other countries on Jan.30 –to coincide with the general release of Windows Vista. This updated service, which brings automated PC protection, maintenance, performance tuning and support, will be available for purchase […]