Peter Galli

Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are each working on new file format and storage systems for their operating systems that promise to let users store and access both more easily. Going forward, Sun will take its technology beyond the current Unix file system and Solaris volume manager found in its upcoming Solaris 9 release, […]

SEATTLE – Microsoft Corp. intends once again to focus on the knowledge worker in the Longhorn version of its Windows .Net Server software, and will be pouring a lot of innovation into a new file system. In one of the first public discussions of the Longhorn server family, Peter Houston, a senior director in Microsofts […]

SEATTLE – When Bill Gates takes the stage Thursday to deliver the last keynote at Microsofts eleventh annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) here, he will talk about the multiple paths his companys roadmap is leading. The Microsoft Corp. chairman and chief software architect will touch on the latest developments in its productivity business for […]

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday reported $7.25 billion in revenue for its third quarter, which ended in March—a 13 percent rise from the same quarter a year ago—a result that its chief financial officer John Conners said “exceeded our expectations.” But he cautioned that while PC growth rates for the current quarter were expected to be […]

SEATTLE – A standards group made up of the leading IT vendors today will roll out the first draft of a new interconnect specification for linking microprocessors and peripherals. The first draft of the Third Generation I/O spec, known as 3GIO, has been completed and is being transferred to the PCI-SIG, where it will be […]

SEATTLE – Microsoft Corp. has pushed back the release of the next version of the Windows operating system, code-named Longhorn, until 2004. In an interview here at its 11th annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, WinHEC, Jim Allchin, the group vice president of platforms at Microsoft, told eWeek that Longhorn was unlikely to ship before 2004. […]

Microsoft Corp. is reworking its .Net My Services strategy around new server software that will allow enterprise customers to host and run the services themselves. Officials at Microsofts TechEd conference here said the Redmond, Wash., company has shifted its priorities from hosting mass consumer services itself and is now concentrating on delivering the infrastructure that […]

NEW ORLEANS—The first release candidate for Microsoft Corp.s Windows .Net Server software family will be released this quarter, with a final release of the product set for the end of the year. Microsoft released the third beta for the product in late October and has been receiving extensive feed back from testers since then. The […]

NEW ORLEANS–Microsoft Corp., IBM and VeriSign Inc. have joined forces to develop and publish a new security specification for Web services that will form the foundation of their proposed Web services security architecture. The specification, which the parties say is the first such spec to be launched, will be known as WS-Security and is designed […]

NEW ORLEANS–Microsoft Corp. on Thursday confirmed it is working on new server software that will allow enterprise customers to host and run its core .Net My Services themselves, even behind the firewall. Adam Sohn, a product manager for .Net platform strategy, told eWEEK in an interview that Microsoft has shifted its priorities away from hosting […]