Peter Galli

Anyone who wants a copy of the of the comprehensive public comments made under the Tunney Act proceedings, which formed part of the proposed antitrust settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and Microsoft Corp. , may be able to get one for free if the if the U.S. District Court in Washington accepts that […]

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday was ordered to turn over a copy of the source code for Windows XP Embedded to Professor Lee Hollaar of the University of Utah, and to allow him to inspect the source code for Windows XP Home and Professional. The order came from Washington District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly and was […]

Microsoft Corp. faces yet another legal challenge. Software developer Be Inc. on Tuesday filed suit against Microsoft alleging that the Redmond, Wash., software giants allegedly illegal and anticompetitive practices were directly responsible for the destruction of Bes business. The 21-page suit was filed in the San Francisco District Court and alleges that Microsoft has “long […]

Sun Microsystems Inc.s new attitude toward Linux isnt causing Microsoft Corp. or IBM to lose any sleep. Sun, of Palo Alto, Calif., took aim at the two software companies earlier this month, announcing an expanded commitment to Linux across its product line. “This announcement is more about Microsoft than anything else. We want to bring […]

The launch of Visual Studio .Net gives definition to Microsoft Corp.s software-as-a-service initiative, which, until now, has been more talk than substance. Now the question is whether the tool suite will fill the needs of Web services developers. The Redmond, Wash., company announced Visual Studio .Net at an event here last week, touting it as […]

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday denied allegations that it had withheld the names of witnesses it had previously selected from the nine dissenting states and the District of Columbia in an effort to obtain some tactical advantage. Microsofts response follows a hard-hitting request on Monday from the dissenting states who asked Washington District Court Judge Colleen […]

The nine states and the District of Columbia, which have refused to sign off on the proposed settlement in the antitrust case between Microsoft Corp. and the Department of Justice, on Monday asked Washington District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to issue an emergency order striking 18 of the 23 new fact witnesses named in Microsofts […]

Attorneys for Microsoft Corp. and the Department of Justice on Monday filed memoranda asking Washington D.C. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to reject a Jan. 28 motion from a group of California plaintiffs to either intervene in the Tunney Act settlement proceedings currently before the court or to file an Amicus Curiae (friend of the […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Thursday took aim at Microsoft Corp. and IBM, announcing that it will expand its commitment to Linux across its product line and will for the first time ship a full implementation of the Linux operating system. “We are now embracing the Linux operating system and its development community,” said Ed Zander, […]

In an unusual twist to the Department of Justices antitrust case against Microsoft Corp., the author and inventor of an economic method for preventing collusion has used his company, Relpromax Antitrust Inc., to file motions asking the Washington D.C., District Court Judge Coleen Kollar-Kotelly to allow the firm to participate as a “friend of the […]