Peter Galli

Microsoft is officially naming the server solution it has been developing for the midsize business market Windows Essential Business Server, which replaces the code name “Centro.” Windows Essential Business Server is an integrated server infrastructure solution that includes Windows Server 2008, Exchange Server 2007, Forefront Security for Exchange, System Center Essentials, the next version of […]

Microsoft is ratcheting up its enterprise search play with a new offering, Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express, which will be made available as a free download. “This is essentially a search server designed to take enterprise-class search capabilities and bring those to businesses of all sizes,” Jared Spataro, group product manager for enterprise search at […]

Microsoft has officially taken the beta moniker off the next generation of its Windows Live services, which it launched at events in New York and Los Angeles on Nov. 6. This new generation of Windows Live will be available in 36 languages and 59 countries across the world, and is the first integrated release of […]

Microsoft has terminated the employment of its CIO Stuart Scott, who was also a corporate vice president at the software company. Scott’s executive biography on the Microsoft Web site was updated on Nov. 5 with a note saying that “Stuart Scott’s employment at Microsoft ended in early November 2007.” A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that Scott […]

The recent decision by the Open Document Foundation to substitute the World Wide Web Consortium’s Compound Document Format in place of the format it was set up to promote, the Open Document Format, has sparked a contentious debate over what shape the format should take. Open document advocates are debating fundamental questions about whether there […]

During the past few fiscal quarters, Margaret Lewis has seen an interesting trend in the server space: Windows is garnering a greater share of the market, while growth in Linux systems appears to be slowing. Lewis, director of commercial solutions at chip maker Advanced Micro Devices, said that in 2000, Windows constituted about half the […]

Sun Microsystems and the OpenSolaris community have released a developer preview of the binary distribution for OpenSolaris, which is targeted at those who want to develop and test the distribution. While Sun is shooting to make the full official release available next March, should that not happen it will take place before the end of […]

The Linux community is questioning research that suggests the open-source operating system is losing market share to Windows on preinstalled x86 servers, saying that Linux is undercounted in those kinds of studies. An analysis of IDC Quarterly Server Tracker figures for the past six quarters showed that Linux growth started to falter and reverse its […]

SEATTLE—The area between personal productivity and line of business applications offers the greatest opportunities for innovation today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told the hundreds of attendees at the Office Project Conference here Oct. 30. “How does a business deal with exceptions, like a bad invoice, or issues with mission-critical applications? Resolving that is all about […]

SEATTLE—Changes to the work management business will be driven by the move towards standardized applications, transparency and accountability, the changing work force, and the notion of people always being on and connected and suffering from information overload. So said Mike Angiulo, the general manager for Microsoft Office Project, during his opening keynote at its user […]