Peter Galli

SEATTLE—With the release of a new product and a major acquisition under his belt, Mike Angiulo, general manager for Microsoft Office Project, will give the opening keynote at its first user conference in some eighteen months here Oct. 29. The address will concentrate on the release earlier this year of Office Project 2007 and an […]

Linux growth in the U.S. x86 server market has, over the past six quarters, started to falter and reverse its positive course relative to Windows Server and the market as a whole. The annual rate at which Linux is growing in the x86 server space has fallen from around 53 percent in 2003, when Windows […]

Microsoft reported a 27 percent surge in revenue to $13.76 billion for the first quarter of 2007, which ended September 30, 2007, making it the fastest growth in revenue for any first quarter in seven years, and up almost $3 billion from the same quarter a year ago. The software maker, headquartered in Redmond, Wash., […]

Microsoft will make the hypercall API in Windows Server virtualization available under its Open Specification Promise when the product is released to manufacturing late next year. This means that the API can be used without licensing fees and with Microsofts guarantee that it will not sue for violation of its patented intellectual property. However, for […]

Microsoft and some of its partners are hoping that Vista will be the gift that fills their holiday stocking this year. This is the first year that notebooks and desktop computers loaded with Vista software were available for the recent lucrative back-to-school season, as well as for the upcoming holiday season. As Windows Vista was […]

Microsoft is using Interop New York to showcase the interoperability work from its collaboration with the 50 software and hardware vendors that are members of the Interoperability Vendor Alliance it sponsors. The technologies from the work of the Alliances technical labs and being shown at Interop the week of Oct. 22 are used to streamline […]

The war of words between Microsoft and Siemens is heating up over which of their unified communications solutions is better and more appropriate to customer needs. Earlier this month, executives at Siemens Communications, a market leader in the UC space, told eWEEK that Microsoft was late to the unified communications game and that its offering […]

Linux vendor Turbolinux is expanding its relationship with Microsoft with a patent cross-licensing agreement with the software maker. The deal, which was announced by the two companies Oct. 22, is the first between Microsoft and a Linux server and desktop platform distributor in Asia. Turbolinux is headquartered in Tokyo. It brings to five the number […]

Microsoft is integrating Office Live Workspace into its new Microsoft Live@edu suite of services for universities, the company announced Oct. 22. The software maker made the announcement at a symposium at its Redmond, Wash., campus that was attended by more than 400 of its higher education customers. Microsoft first announced its vision for Office Live […]

The fallout from the events leading up to the recent vote on whether or not to approve Microsofts Office Open XML documents format as an ISO standard continues unabated, more than a month after the software maker conceded it had lost that vote. Work in SC 34, the committee within the ISO/IECs Joint Technical Committee […]