Peter Galli

LOS ANGELES — Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp.s chairman and chief software architect, is expected to announce in his keynote address at the Professional Developers Conference here on Tuesday morning that the code for the .Net Framework has gone gold, sources said. The .Net Framework is Microsofts multilanguage component development and execution environment and includes the […]

LOS ANGELES – As expected, Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates announced the general availability of the one and only release candidate for Visual Studio .Net, and the .Net Framework, which were “pretty much ready to go” and which would be final before the year-end. In a keynote address here at the […]

LOS ANGELES – Microsoft Corp. went on the attack Monday, unleashing a barrage of hard-hitting criticism and rhetoric against its main competitors — one by one. Charles Fitzgerald, the general manager of Microsofts .Net Platform strategy group, spent most of an hourlong media information session ahead of Tuesdays formal opening of the Professional Developers Conference […]

LOS ANGELES – Microsoft Corp. executives started the spin around the companys .Net platform and vision here Monday, citing a range of figures that they claim indicates the broad adoption of .Net and its potential going forward. In an address to the media before the companys Professional Developers Conference formally opens here on Tuesday with […]

LOS ANGELES–Microsoft Corp. executives will use this weeks Professional Developers Conference here to make a number of .Net announcements, including the availability of Release Candidate 1 of Visual Studio .Net, the .Net My Services software developers kit and a version of the .Net Compact Framework, sources said. Visual Studio. Net is the centerpiece tool set […]

A growing number of enterprise customers are seriously considering alternatives to Microsoft Corp. products as a result of the companys hard-line approach to its volume licensing programs. While the Redmond, Wash., company may not see immediate fallout from its new licensing plans, the long-term negative impact could be significant if products such as Linux or […]

Microsoft Corp., which last week announced the preview program for its .Net Alerts notification, subscription, management and routing service, is hoping that this and its other Web services to come will spur broad adoption of its single-sign-in Internet authentication technology, Passport, from consumers and enterprise customers. While the Alerts service is a critical part of […]

After failing to reach a negotiated settlement in the time frame imposed by Washington Dis-trict Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, as well as deciding on a mediator, Microsoft Corp. and the U.S. Department of Justice had one appointed for them. Judge Kollar-Kotelly announced on Sunday the appointment of Eric Green, a law professor from Boston University, […]

The Open Source Development Lab will on Monday announce that it is providing software developers access to a code benchmarking tool known as the Scalable Test Platform. As first reported by eWEEK , the tool will provide open source developers with a central resource for the stable and scalable testing of enhancements to the Linux […]

Microsoft Corp. and the Department of Justice have failed to reach a negotiated settlement in the time-frame imposed by Washington District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, sources close to the antitrust case told eWeek on Friday. In an order posted two weeks ago, Kollar-Kotelly told both parties they had until October 12 to again try and […]