Peter Galli

Microsoft’s Windows Live team is working with Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, Tagged and LinkedIn to allow users to move their contacts between the various services. The software giant is also introducing a new Web site that people can use to invite their friends from these partner social networks to join their Windows Live Messenger contact list, […]

The war of words between Microsoft, IBM and others with an interest in document formats has reached a boiling point ahead of the crucial vote later this month on whether or not Microsoft’s Office Open XML format should be approved as an ISO standard. The format failed to achieve the two-thirds vote needed for approval […]

Microsoft made the feature-complete Release Candidate for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V available to customers and partners March 19, as the company moves to meets its own August deadline to deliver the final code. “This is a key milestone signaling that Microsoft is on track to deliver Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtualization by August 2008,” Bill […]

SALT LAKE CITY-Novell will use its annual BrainShare conference here March 17 to announce new and expanded partnerships as well as to show off some of the features and functionality of its upcoming SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11. Novell officials told eWEEK that several new partnerships will be announced during the opening keynotes, including a […]

SALT LAKE CITY-Novell’s vision for the future is the agile infrastructure, and the company has a new project code-named Fossa to address this plan, which will include both open-source and proprietary software. “CIOs want agility, yet IT infrastructure is anything but agile today. So that is Novell’s vision for the future: the agile infrastructure, and […]

SALT LAKE CITY-Hewlett-Packard will start shipping some of its notebook and desktop computers with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 preinstalled later this year. “We are really excited by this deal because of the power that the HP distribution channel brings, the reach they have and their commitment to interoperability. I am very enthusiastic about what […]

SALT LAKE CITY-Novell has welcomed the decision by the Supreme Court March 17 that allows its antitrust suit against Microsoft to move forward. That decision follows a ruling by the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., that Novell can continue with its multibillion-dollar antitrust lawsuit, which deals with the damage the company […]

SALT LAKE CITY-Novell used its BrainShare 2008 conference here to start talking publicly about its development plans for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, the next version of its server operating system. Among the company’s lofty goals is to make SLES 11 available as an appliance that will be supported by a new tool set designed […]

SALT LAKE CITY – When Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian takes to the stage to open the company’s BrainShare 2008 conference here March 17, he will talk about what has been achieved over the past year and what he hopes to do in the year ahead. Part of that will be to stress the company’s financial […]

Is Microsoft secretly preparing for a new computing scenario where a reborn mainframe emerges that supports multi-user computing on centralized desktops? Directions on Microsoft analyst Rob Helm believes so, pointing out that two of Microsoft’s most recent acquisitions-Calista Technologies and Kidaro-have been companies whose technologies could facilitate multi-user computing on centralized desktops. Helm was responding […]