Peter Galli

Microsoft cleared the air July 5 on its obligations to GNU General Public License Version 3 support, declaring it will not provide support or updates for GPLv3 under the deal it penned in November with Novell to administer certificates for the Linux distribution. Microsoft also said July 5 that its agreement with Novell, as well […]

Even though patent talks between Microsoft and Red Hat broke down last year before Microsoft went on to sign a technical collaboration and patent indemnity deal with Novell, Red Hat is still willing to work with the Redmond software maker on the interoperability front. But the Linux vendor wants to limit those talks to pure […]

The commonwealth of Massachusetts has done a 180 degree turn and decided to support Microsofts Office Open XML format in addition to the OASIS Open Document Format. The commonwealth added Microsofts format, also known as Ecma-376 or Open XML, to the list of approved standards in the Massachusetts ETRM (Enterprise Technical Reference Model), an architectural […]

The Free Software Foundation and its supporters describe the iPhone as a product crippled with proprietary software and digital restrictions. In a cruel twist of fate, both the iPhone and the Free Software Foundations final version of the GNU GPL (General Public License), Version 3, will be released on June 29. But in techie philosophical […]

Microsoft used the unveiling of its Unlimited Potential initiative in India on June 28 to announce the pilot program for a new PC for schoolchildren, known as the IQ PC, in partnership with hardware maker Advanced Micro Devices. Microsofts Unlimited Potential initiative aims to give an additional billion people access to computers by the year […]

After 18 months of consultation, four published drafts and thousands of comments, on June 29 the Free Software Foundation released Version 3 of the GNU General Public License—its first update in more than 16 years. The final version of the Lesser GPL was also released June 29. FSF founder and President Richard Stallman, who drafted […]

Microsoft has no current plans to join the Open Innovation Network, a move that some in the free and open-source community have suggested would benefit them both. OIN is an intellectual property company that was formed to acquire Linux-related patents and share them, royalty-free, to any organization that agrees not to assert its patents against […]

Microsoft has just released an update to Exchange 2007 that should fix issues that could have prevented Apples new iPhone from receiving mail from Exchange Server 2007. The Redmond, Wash., software maker released June 28 the third update to Exchange Server 2007, known as Rollup 3, which addresses many of the issues customers have been […]

Microsoft is introducing Windows Live Folders and Windows Live Photo Gallery, the next batch of online services associated with its Windows Live strategy. This generation of Windows Live services is also the first release under Steven Sinofsky, who runs the overall Live engineering effort, and Chris Jones, who leads the program management side for Live. […]

Wooed by compelling application ecosystems, performance and cost, several large enterprise Linux customers have begun slowly migrating back to Windows Server, eWEEK reporting has found. The migrations come after a quarter in which Windows Server revenue grew faster than Linux revenue—the first time that has happened since research company IDC started tracking Linux server spending […]