Peter Galli

Microsoft has revealed the much-anticipated details of its program to let customers upgrade to Windows Vista after buying PCs over the holiday season. Microsoft officials have said they are on track for a release of Vista to volume-license business customers in November and to consumers in January. The new initiative, known as the Express Upgrade […]

Microsoft has released the final version of Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP, which brings a new user interface, greater online store integration and improved navigation for larger music libraries. Microsoft is hoping that releasing Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Media Player 11 to current Windows XP users will encourage those users to get […]

Red Hat executives are putting on a brave face and looking at Oracles Unbreakable Linux announcement as a positive for them, saying it is an acknowledgement that the future of software is open source and that its Enterprise Linux software is the gold standard. Oracle on Oct. 25 announced that it will provide the same […]

Microsoft reported an 11 percent rise in both revenue and operating income to $10.81 billion and $4.47 billion respectively for the first quarter of its fiscal year, which ended September 30. The increases come on the back of strong demand for Xbox 360 consoles and SQL Server 2005. The Redmond, Wash., software company released its […]

While both Gateway and Hewlett-Packard are going to let customers who buy certain PCs this holiday season upgrade to Windows Vista at no cost, Dell has decided to charge a fee to upgrade from Windows XP Home to Vista Basic. These OEM announcements closely follow that of Microsoft, which finally revealed Oct. 24 its upgrade […]

What does it take to get an open-source developer to write a piece of software code or perhaps find and fix bugs in a companys existing code? A Microsoft Xbox, it appears. Just ask Stormy Peters, an original founder of Hewlett-Packards Open Source Program Office and currently the director of project management at OpenLogic, which […]

Microsoft has finally revealed the much anticipated details of its program to let customers who buy a PC that is Windows Vista capable over the holiday season upgrade to the new operating system. Microsoft officials have said they are on track for a release of Vista to volume license business customers in November, and to […]

Microsoft plans to deliver a set of new software tools designed to remove some of the pain enterprises experience when deploying and managing desktops and applications. The company is bundling four of the technologies it has acquired over the past few months into an offering known as the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance. […]

Microsoft has made the Sender ID framework specification for e-mail authentication available to users at no cost and with the guarantee that it will never take legal action against them. The Sender ID specification will now be available to anybody wanting to use it under Microsofts Open Specification Promise. The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker issued […]

Microsoft will introduce a new Office Project 2007 certification program and a new portal, the EPM Connect, at the Project Management Institute Global Congress 2006 conference in Seattle the week of Oct. 23. Microsoft, which is the host sponsor of this project management conference, is on track to release Microsoft Office Project 2007 to businesses […]