Peter Galli

Microsoft has made changes to its licensing model for Windows Vista to meet the needs of enterprise customers in the finance and government sectors using bleeding-edge technologies. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant will announce April 2 a subscription license called Windows Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktops, which allows customers to use Windows in virtual machines centralized […]

Corporate reaction to the release of the third discussion draft of the GNU GPL (General Public License) has been swift, much of it critical of the changes with how patents are dealt with. The new draft, released on March 28 by the Free Software Foundation, includes changes to the license compatibility terms to make them […]

As the Free Software Foundation prepares to release the third discussion draft on the GNU General Public License on March 28, the question being asked is whether the move to block future deals like the controversial one between Microsoft and Novell will forever doom the license. Open-source evangelist and developer Bruce Perens confirmed to eWEEK […]

Yet another technology first developed at Microsoft Research is forming the basis for a new, independent company. Microsoft will announce March 27 the launch of ZenZui, a company whose Zooming user interface was initially developed by Microsoft Research before being spun off into a stand-alone firm with the help of the Redmond software giants IP […]

The Free Software Foundation will release the third discussion draft of the GNU General Public License Version 3 on March 28, some eight months after the previous draft was made public. The move will push back the final release of GPL 3 by several more months, which means the license is now unlikely to debut […]

More than 20 million copies of Windows Vista were sold globally in February 2007, the first month of sales since its widespread consumer release. That is significantly more than the 17 million copies of Windows XP that were sold in the first two months following its release in October 2001, Kevin Kutz, a director in […]

SALT LAKE CITY—Novell took the unusual step at its annual BrainShare conference here of holding a “fireside chat” between its own Chief Technology Officer Jeff Jaffee and Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft, as part of the opening keynote presentations. That move underscored the awareness among Novells top executives that the controversial […]

PALO ALTO—Sun Microsystems expects to start generating 10 percent operating profit in fiscal year 2009, but that is dependent on a number of factors, such as continuing to move the company away from its history of being a “walled garden,” CEO Jonathan Schwartz said at a media event here on March 23. Schwartz said, “We […]

Microsoft has struck a patent agreement with Fuji Xerox that gives the Redmond software maker access to broad patents relating to document management systems that it can use in existing and future products. For its part, Fuji Xerox—which is owned by FujiFilm Holdings and Xerox and provides business solutions that enhance the management and utilization […]

SALT LAKE CITY—While Novells controversial patent deal with Microsoft got a lot of attention at the companys annual BrainShare conference here this week, CEO Ron Hovsepian is unapologetic about the move. He argues that the deal has been good for Linux adoption as well as for Novell, pointing to several large deals done recently that […]