Peter Galli

Microsoft will make its new enterprise voice communications server available to 2,500 companies under a private beta program on Dec. 11. The product, which will be known as Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, brings with it the ability for companies to integrate VOIP (voice over IP) technology into existing telephony infrastructure, Chris Cullin, the director […]

Technology decision makers are very upbeat about the recent agreement between Microsoft and Novell to improve interoperability between Windows Server and SUSE Linux, a survey commissioned by the two companies has found. Some nine out of 10 of those polled said they approve of the collaboration agreement between the two companies as they feel this […]

A Microsoft-commissioned study that looks at the economic impact of Windows Vista in the United States in its first year of shipment estimates that for every dollar of Microsoft revenue from the new operating system, the ecosystem around it will reap $18 in revenues. That would result in about $70 billion in hardware, software packages […]

Microsoft has taken pains to demonstrate that Windows Vista will have ample application support, particularly in the fields of anti-virus and security, so as to give businesses more incentive to upgrade to the latest version of Windows. The Vista development team made a special effort to get anti-virus vendors involved early in the design program, […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Microsystems made the third, and latest, update to Solaris 10 available for download on Dec. 11, which is the most secure version of the operating system ever released, Tom Goguen, the vice president of systems software at Sun, said at a media event here. Goguen also used the event to announce that Sun […]

Microsoft has hit back at critics, including IBM, which voted against approving the software companys Office Open XML format as an Ecma standard, claiming it is nothing more than a vendor-dictated specification that documents proprietary products via XML. Ecma International announced the approval of the new standard Dec. 6 following a meeting of its general […]

Microsofts Office OpenXML has been approved as an Ecma standard and will now also be submitted for consideration as an ISO international standard. Ecma International announced the approval of the new standard on Dec. 6 following a meeting of its general assembly. Ecma will also begin the fast track process for adoption of the Office […]

IBM has thrown its weight behind the use of the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol standard for interoperability, and will announce on Dec. 6 that Lotus Sametime 7.5 instant messaging customers can now communicate with users of AIM and Google Talk, and will be able to do so with Yahoo Messenger in a matter of […]

About half of the average business PCs in North America are unable to meet the minimum requirements for Microsofts Windows Vista operating system, while 94 percent do not meet the system requirements for Vista Premium. Within these figures, 41 percent and 78 percent, respectively, require RAM upgrades to meet the minimum and premium system requirements […]

NEW YORK—The launch of Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange 2007 for businesses is the most significant release of the flagship products in Microsofts history, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Nov. 30. In a media keynote at the Nasdaq Stock Exchange here to officially announce the business launch and availability of the products to volume-license […]