Peter Galli

Microsoft has announced that it will shell out $6 billion in cash to buy aQuantive, which owns interactive ad agency Avenue A RazorFish, as well as Atlas, a set of advanced tools for advertisers and publishers, and DrivePM, which matches advertiser campaigns with publisher inventory. The motivation for the deal appears simple: Microsoft wants to […]

LOS ANGELES—Some of the changes in the upcoming release of Windows Server 2008 are a response to features and performance advantages that have made Linux an attractive option to Microsoft customers. One of these is the fact that Linux has less of a surface area, which led customers to believe that Linux is inherently more […]

LAS VEGAS—Attendees at Microsofts Windows Hardware Engineering Conference here got an in-depth and deeply technical keynote outlining the changes to the Windows kernel and other key areas, and how partners can take advantage of these. In his presentation on May 16, Mark Russinovich, a technical fellow in Microsofts platform and services division and the third […]

LOS ANGELES—The significant hardware trends driving IT industry today have resulted in “a perfect storm,” a time of great change and opportunity for the industry, Bill Laing, general manager for Microsofts Windows Server division, told attendees here at WinHEC on May 16. Microsoft is gung-ho about the transition to 64-bit computing for both the industry […]

LOS ANGELES—Microsoft is doing research on multiple fronts aimed at bringing computing into every aspect of peoples lives and improving the ways that they communicate, said Craig Mundie, the companys chief research and strategy officer, during his keynote speech at WinHEC here. On the health care front, Microsoft is experimenting with optical recognition technology that […]

LOS ANGELES—The 2,700 attendees at Microsofts annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference here are going to get an earful about Windows Vista, the upcoming Windows Server “Longhorn” and Windows Home Server—and thats just from the keynote addresses. “There are three big themes for this conference, the first of which is the industry impact of the Windows […]

LOS ANGELES—Nearly 40 million copies of Windows Vista have been sold in the first 100 days following its release, more than twice the sales of Windows XP over the same time period, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said in his opening keynote here at the 15th annual WinHEC. “We have been amazed by the response to […]

Microsoft is using the threat of patent violations by the free and open-source software community to try to drive enterprise customers to SUSE Enterprise Linux and to further muddy the waters around the next version of the upcoming GNU General Public License. As part of this latest strategy, Microsoft has, for the first time, put […]

As Microsoft continues to ratchet up its focus on unified communications, it will use the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles the week of May 14 to announce 15 new phones and devices from nine of its partners. This is part of the Redmond, Wash., companys drive to provide customers with devices that connect […]

SAN DIEGO—Red Hat officials gave more details about the companys new global desktop on May 9, revealing that it is based on a stripped-down version of the existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 and contains applications such as Firefox, OpenOffice and Evolution. “Our enterprise desktop has some 1,500 applications, so we stripped this down […]