Peter Galli

Palm is hoping that its upcoming Foleo mobile companion will help establish a new category of personal-computing products, especially given its 2.5 pound weight, small size and five-hour battery life. While the Foleo is designed as the mobile companion to its Treo smartphone, powered by either the Palm operating system or Windows Mobile, a Palm […]

Microsoft has succeeded in fracturing the Linux and open-source community with the patent indemnity agreements it has entered into with several prominent vendors, Ubuntu leader and Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth told eWEEK. The strategy behind that was to drive a wedge into the open-source community and unsettle the marketplace, Shuttleworth said. He also took issue […]

Hedge Funds Luring Away Prospective Microsoft Talent”> Editors Note: This is the second in a series of articles, based on an interview with Microsoft COO Kevin Turner, that examine the focus, strategy, challenges and opportunities for the software company going forward. The biggest challenge facing Microsoft today is making sure that it has enough qualified, […]

The commonwealth of Massachusetts has officially thrown its weight behind Microsofts Office Open XML format along with the OASIS Open Document Format. In July, the commonwealth added Microsofts format, also known as Ecma-376 or Open XML, to the list of approved standards in a draft of the Massachusetts ETRM (Enterprise Technical Reference Model), an architectural […]

Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie spoke at the annual Financial Analyst Meeting last week, and he gave his clearest, and most comprehensive, explanation of the company’s services plus software strategy to date. That strategy was “a very big deal” for the company, he said, while also making it clear that the services will be […]

Microsoft Wants Its HD Photo Technology to Be an Industry Standard”> Microsoft is looking to get more of its technology certified as an industry standard and has submitted its HD Photo technology to the Joint Photographic Expert Group for a decision in that regard. JPEG, a working group of the International Organization for Standardization, has […]

REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft has big plans in the advertising world, a strategy underscored by its acquisition July 26 of AdECN, which provides an auction exchange for display ads, following its acquisition in May of aQuantive, which owns interactive ad agency Avenue A Razorfish. “We now have all the core components for our ad network,” said Kevin […]

PORTLAND, Ore.—The Open Source Initiative approved on July 25 its first new license in quite some time: the Common Public Attribution License, which is essentially the Mozilla Public License with a new attribution clause. But the road to approval was long and expensive, Ross Mayfield, CEO and co-founder of Socialtext, which submitted the license, told […]

If at times Microsoft has seemed vague in describing its software plus services initiative and the Live application strategy, its because the company simply hasnt completely figured them out yet. So says Kevin Turner, Microsofts chief operating officer, who is helping lead the charge to get partners, developers and customers excited about this new direction […]

REDMOND, Wash.— Microsoft Windows will run more PCs than there are cars in the world by the end of Microsofts fiscal year 2008, said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer July 26 at the companys analyst day here. The software giant announced it sold 60 million copies of Windows Vista this year, more than the entire installed […]