Peter Galli

Microsoft is buying enterprise desktop virtualization company Kidaro as it works to meet its ambitous goal of providing virtualization solutons from the desktop to the data center. The software giant plans to include Kidaro’s virtualization technologies in future updates of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance, a suite of desktop-management tools that has […]

A Peek Behind the Microsoft Research Curtain A Peek Behind the Microsoft Research Curtain – Networking for the Client C2, one of Microsoft’s newest social networking projects, lets users access data from a variety of different sources, including e-mails and Facebook and MySpace profiles. C2 also lets users pull photographs from public sources and from […]

LAS VEGAS-Ever wondered what drives Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, or what he does every day as head of the largest software company in the world? Well, apparently, so do lots of other people. During a fireside chat at the annual MIX conference here March 5, moderator Guy Kawasaki, a managing director at Garage Technology Ventures […]

LAS VEGAS-Microsoft CEO Ballmer came to the MIX conference to sit down for a quiet fireside chat and talk about those issues important to developers. Instead, what he got was a complete grilling about Yahoo, Google and Apple. Guy Kawasaki, a managing director at Garage Technology Ventures and a former Fellow at Apple Computer, moderated […]

LAS VEGAS-Microsoft is hoping customers and developers will accept the release of the Internet Explorer 8 beta as concrete evidence of its commitment to the recently announced new interoperability principles. Microsoft rolled out a set of four new interoperability principles Feb. 21 that it said would ensure open connections, promote data portability, enhance support for […]

LAS VEGAS -Conspicuously absent from Microsoft’s annual MIX conference here was any discussion by the software giant about whether it plans to change the way ActiveX will run in Internet Explorer 8. Microsoft announced the first beta for IE8, the latest version of its Web browser, at the conference on March 5. The beta for […]

SEATTLE-Microsoft has snared Coca-Cola Enterprises as a customer for its dedicated hosted services, which will be phased in over the next few years. Coca-Cola Enterprises is the world’s largest marketer, distributor and producer of bottled and canned liquid nonalcoholic refreshments, with some $20 billion in annual revenue. It that has 74,000 employees, some 30,000 of […]

REDMOND-Microsoft Research is hosting its annual TechFest at its campus here this week, and is striving to show how the innovations and technologies being developed by its researchers are of interest to a wide range of people, including Hollywood celebrities. As part of the media and analyst event March 4, Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s chief strategy […]

Users running Windows Vista Ultimate in any language other than English, French, German, Japanese or Spanish will not be getting Service Pack 1 when it is first released. Microsoft is now planning to release Vista SP1 in two waves: First, Vista PCs running the Ultimate edition in English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish will get […]