Peter Galli

Novell Inc. on Monday filed suit in the Salt Lake City District Court against Microsoft Corp. for “making and distributing false and misleading statements about Novell and its products in violation of state and federal laws,” Joe LaSala, a Novell senior vice president and its general counsel, told eWEEK late Monday. The brouhaha revolves around […]

Microsoft Corp.s new plans for subscription-based software licenses for volume customers will go into effect this week, despite cries of foul from many enterprises. The license agreements, including the new Software Assurance program, essentially commit companies to buying operating system and application upgrades for an annual fee. The only alternative for users is to shun […]

Software vendors and customers are looking to the federal government and government contractors to help compensate for the anticipated spending cutbacks from enterprise and consumer clients. The effects of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, combined with a slowing economy, major layoffs and the lowest level of consumer confidence in five years, have […]

The Open Source Development Lab has created a code benchmarking tool–known as the Scalable Test Platform–that it says will allow developers to easily test their Linux kernel patches from a variety of tests and server configurations. Tim Witham, the director of the OSDL–an independent, non-profit lab designed for developers who are adding enterprise capabilities to […]

Opponents of Microsoft Corp.s newest operating system, Windows XP, today turned the heat up further on the Redmond, Wash., software maker. Four leading consumer organizations today added to the chorus of critics of Windows XP, warning that Microsofts new bundle of software and Internet services would “extend and deepen the companys illegal monopoly and cause […]

Microsoft Corp. last week announced an initiative that it hopes will facilitate a trusted, interoperable authentication network across the Internet. But the Redmond, Wash., software maker also hopes the move will help spur adoption and usage of its Passport authentication service and, ultimately, its Web services. The company is proposing something its calling Internet Trust […]

Microsoft Corp. and the Federal Government are headed for a showdown over exactly what remedies should be imposed on the software maker for its anti-competitive behavior. The two parties disagreed on nearly every issue in last weeks joint status report filed before Washington District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, leading antitrust experts to caution that the magnitude […]

Microsoft Corp. is working on a wave of new technologies for the consumer and the enterprise customer that it hopes will change the face of technology as we know it. Many of the algorithms, agents, security methods and other projects being developed by Microsoft Research focus on distributing processing and intelligence all the way out […]

Microsoft Corp., acknowledging that no single company will be able to provide a universal single sign-in or authentication service, will announce Thursday an initiative that it hopes will facilitate a trusted, interoperable authentication network across the Internet. The Redmond, Wash., software maker also hopes the move will help spur adoption and usage of its Passport […]

Microsoft Corp. and the Department of Justice have again been given more time to prepare a joint status report on the antitrust case, which was due to be filed before the U.S. District Court by noon EDT Tuesday. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly told the parties late Monday that “in light of recent tragic events affecting […]