Peter Galli

Microsoft has made a minor update to Windows Live Hotmail, the first since it launched the new service on May 7. Redmond started making the update available to customers this week in a rollout that is expected to take several weeks. Windows Live Hotmail is the successor to MSN Hotmail. It was under development for […]

Exchange 2007 SP1 Moves a Step Closer”> Microsoft has opened up the second beta for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 to more than a million Microsoft Developer Network and TechNet subscribers under a new technology preview program. More than 150,000 technical adoption customers have been testing the first private beta of the service pack, […]

Will Microsoft handle the release of Windows “7,” the next version of the operating system, slated for 2010, a lot better than it did with Windows Vista? We can only hope that Microsoft will do a better job of making clear which hardware will run which of the many versions of Windows 7 that are […]

Microsoft has submitted two of its Shared Source licenses to the Open Source Initiative for review and approval as open-source licenses: the Microsoft Permissive and Microsoft Community licenses. The Redmond, Wash., software company did not submit the Microsoft Reference, Microsoft Limited Permissive or the Microsoft Limited Community licenses to the OSI for review. The move […]

Microsoft has lost the first round in a legal battle over whether its Windows Vista Capable and Express Upgrade programs were deceptive and led consumers to buy PCs that could only run the most basic version of the operating system. The case was brought against the software giant, based in Redmond, Wash., by lead plaintiff […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft is not working on optimizing the virtualization of Windows Vista or Windows XP on top of Linux, Sam Ramji, the director of Microsofts open-source software lab, said at the annual LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here Aug. 7. While Microsoft does provide customers with licenses to run the two Windows operating systems in a […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian explained rather than defended his companys deal with Microsoft in his keynote address at the annual LinuxWorld Conference here Aug. 8. “I know our deal with Microsoft is controversial, but it is necessary for our customers who have to deal with both Linux and Windows in their data centers. Virtualization […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Windows Vista has probably created the single biggest opportunity for the Linux desktop to take market share, Cole Crawford, an IT strategist at Dell, said in an address titled, “The Linux Desktop—Fact, FUD or Fantasy?” at the annual LinuxWorld Conference & Expo here. For example, a number of companies have moved back to Windows […]

The Fedora 7 Linux distribution has been chosen as the platform for the Creative Commons LiveContent CD, an initiative to showcase free, open-source software and Creative Commons-licensed multimedia content. The LiveContent CD is the result of collaboration across a number of organizations, including Red Hat, which is providing in-kind engineering support via Fedora 7, as […]

SAN FRANCISCO—IBM and Novell have joined forces to capture a larger piece of the growing open-source application server market in a deal that will see Novell deliver and support WebSphere Application Server Community Edition as part of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. The companies are also targeting JBoss and will provide support and the migration tools […]