Peter Galli

Microsoft Fixes Validation Issue that Withheld Vista Features Some 12,000 Windows Vista customers across the globe were denied access to a range of features in the new operating system as a result of a shut-down in Microsofts ability to validate their systems under its Windows Genuine Advantage program. The Redmond, Wash. software maker confirmed August […]

Nokia and Microsoft have penned a deal that allows customers in 11 countries with compatible Nokia S60 phones to access a suite of Windows Live services specifically designed for those devices. Those customers will be able to download the new suite Aug. 22, giving them access to Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live […]

Is Microsoft negotiating to buy Yahoo? How big a competitive threat is Google? What is the biggest threat to IT at this point? These were all questions that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Cisco CEO John Chambers fielded in a lengthy debate they had in New York on August 20 about working more closely together […]

Microsofts Windows software forms the basis for an ecosystem of applications that run on top of it, but sometimes those programs are designed to correct the things customers dont like or want in the operating system. Take Vistas controversial User Account Control, which is designed to reduce the exposure and attack surface of the operating […]

NEW YORK—Microsoft and Cisco talked publicly for the first time about several of the seven focus areas on which they are currently collaborating, which include IT architecture, management, Unified Communications and security. At an event held at the Mandarin Oriental hotel here in New York on August 20 to discuss the interoperability work between them, […]

NEW YORK—The work Microsoft and Cisco Systems are doing with virtualization is highly complementary, Ciscos chief development officer Charlie Giancarlo said August 20. In an interview with eWEEK along with Bob Muglia, Microsofts senior vice president for server and tools, Giancarlo said Cisco was looking at virtualizing the network hardware environment, including the processors in […]

NEW YORK – Microsoft and Cisco Systems are working hard together on the future of the data center and, as that gets redefined going forward, it will bring new areas of competition and opportunity, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said August 20. In a discussion held at the Mandarin Oriental hotel here in New York and […]

Editors Note: This is the third and final in a series of articles based on an interview with Microsoft COO Kevin Turner that examine the software companys current focus, strategy, challenges and opportunities. Microsoft currently faces three primary threats to its future business: Linux and other open-source software, cloud-based computing and a number of players […]

Microsoft is licensing the audio watermarking technology developed in its research labs to Activated Content, a digital technology and application services company. Microsofts audio watermarking technology consists of digital audio software tools that will enable Activated Content to insert and extract non-secure data into audio files that they can use to offer additional services to […]

Could Citrix Systems purchase of XenSource for $500 million be a prelude to Microsofts acquisition of Citrix? Some analysts, like Brenon Daly and his colleagues at The 451 Group, in San Francisco, think so. “Citrix built a $1 billion-plus business on the back of its access to Microsoft source code. XenSources exclusive access to Microsofts […]