Peter Galli

Microsoft has decided not to move forward with a version of Virtual PC for the Intel-based Macintosh, and will also be discontinuing support of Visual Basic scripting in the next version of Office for Mac, the company said. As Virtual PC for Mac was originally developed on the PowerPC platform, the amount of time that […]

Oracle is fast losing its patience with both XenSource and VMware over their reluctance to work together to help develop a single interface that will integrate a variety of virtualization solutions in the Linux kernel. “We certainly believe in one simple universal way to integrate a variety of virtualization solutions, and that is the way […]

REDMOND—There is a fundamental shift underway toward centralized services, said Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s chief software architect, and such services are key to Microsoft’s strategy of using Windows Live as a hub to create seamless experiences across the PC, browser and mobile devices. In an address at the annual Financial Analyst Meeting at Microsoft’s campus here […]

Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of articles that examines Microsoft’s strategy of gaining market share and driving new solutions to market through its partner base. BOSTON—Microsoft may not have answered all the questions prospective partners had when they attended a summit before the company’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference here, but it […]

BOSTON—Microsoft will use the second day of its annual Worldwide Partner Conference here to talk about all the opportunity that remains for its partners and how its People-Ready business has broadened the scope of that for them. In a keynote address to be delivered July 12, Microsoft Server and Tools Marketing Corporate Vice President Andy […]

Editor’s Note: This is the first in an series of articles that examines Microsoft’s strategy of gaining market share and driving new solutions to market through its partner base. BOSTON—As Microsoft starts providing software solutions in new areas, like the High Performance Computing and security space – it is once again turning to partners to […]

Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of articles that examines Microsoft’s strategy of gaining market share and driving new solutions to market through its partner base. Microsoft is aggressively reaching out to established, successful players in the High Performance Computing and security spaces—markets that are new to it and which it is […]

BOSTON—Hot on the heels of revelations that it is reaching out to the open-source community to find ways of interoperating with software licensed under the GPL, Microsoft announced on June 14 that it has formed an Interoperability Customer Executive Council. The goal of the group is to identify areas for improved interoperability across not just […]

New Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz’s first 100 days at the helm are about to get interesting. First up: managing an internal debate over whether the company should open-source Java. According to sources inside Sun, an ongoing debate over whether to open-source Java is coming to a head with the JavaOne conference looming May 16. […]

While Microsoft faces a host of challenges in maintaining its market share numbers and persuading customers to upgrade to its 2007 Office System suite of products when released in the second half of this year, its competitors face an equally daunting task of winning users away from Office 2007 and growing their numbers. Heading the […]

Microsoft on Feb. 16 is set to announce 34 Office suites, programs, servers, services and tools—13 of which are new—that form part of its 2007 Microsoft Office family of products, previously knows as Office 12. Retail pricing for the comparable versions of the product has not been increased, remaining unchanged from the retail prices for […]

Microsoft’s decision to license all the Windows Server source code that applies to the antitrust requirements set out in the European Commission judgment against it has received a lukewarm response at best from competitors and trade groups. “With today’s announcement, Microsoft has supplemented the existing resources with a new license for all of the Windows […]