Peter Galli

There may be a new player in the Microsoft Corp. antitrust case, come Friday. The software maker and the Department of Justice are scheduled to report back to U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington on Friday about the progress on their settlement talks. Kollar-Kotelly ordered two weeks ago that the parties had until […]

The brouhaha surrounding Microsoft Corp.s new volume licensing plans has apparently been good news for companies like Sun Microsystems Inc., which last week announced the beta release of its free StarOffice 6 office productivity suite. Iyer Venkatesan, the product line manager for StarOffice, told eWEEK in an interview Tuesday that there had been more than […]

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday bowed to enormous pressure from customers, altering some of the conditions of its controversial new volume licensing plans and again extending the transition period for them to sign up for its Software Assurance offering. Also on Tuesday, the Redmond, Wash., software developer lost its bid to have the Supreme Court review […]

Microsoft Corp.s latest legal battle—fighting a misleading advertising suit filed by Novell Inc.—could have a negative effect on the outcome of its antitrust case with the Department of Justice. Novell last week filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Utah, accusing Microsoft of false and misleading advertising designed to create fear and uncertainty among […]

As expected Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced the preview program for its .Net Alerts Web service. “This is our first deliverable on our .Net strategy,” said Christopher Payne, vice president of .NET My Services at Microsoft in Redmond, Wash. “Were taking a crawl, work, run view to this and want to nail it for these […]

Microsoft Corp. is putting some meat on its .Net bones, delivering some of the first tangible .Net services on its own and its partners Web properties. Last week, eBay Inc. announced internally the availability of both the Microsoft Alerts and Microsoft Passport services. The company told customers that they could “use .NET Alerts to stay […]

The status conference between the government and Microsoft Corp. that was scheduled to be held before District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly on Nov. 5 has been moved to Nov. 2 due to a scheduling conflict with the governments legal counsel. In a court order issued late Tuesday and following a telephone conference with the parties, Kollar-Kotelly […]

Microsoft Corp. and the Department of Justice have just two weeks to reach a negotiated settlement in the antitrust case by themselves, otherwise U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly will appoint an external mediator to assist. In an order posted late Friday, Kollar-Kotelly told the parties they have until Oct. 12 to settle the antitrust case […]

The first beta of Sun Microsystems Inc.s upcoming Solaris 9 operating environment for network servers is now available for download from the companys Web site. Users can download the Solaris 9 operating environment through Suns Early Access program. But, contrary to previous expectations, GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) 2.0 will not be the desktop […]

The third beta of Microsoft Corp.s upcoming Windows .Net Server line will be released before the end of the year, according to Cliff Reeves, vice president of the Windows .Net Server Solutions Group, the time frame the company had hoped to ship the final version of the products. Reeves, who gave the keynote address at […]