Peter Galli

Microsoft has acquired DesktopStandard, a developer of group policy-based enterprise desktop management products, in a move designed help customers leverage the value of policy-based management and their investments in Active Directory, the two companies said Oct. 2. Larry Orecklin, general manager, Microsofts Windows Enterprise Management division, said that the acquisition enhances the companys ability to […]

It seems the long and winding road to the oft-delayed release of Windows Vista is about to hit the home stretch. Brad Goldberg, the general manager for the Windows client business group, told eWeek that Microsoft will release just one more build of Windows Vista for testing before the code goes gold. That build will […]

Microsoft will release just one more build of Windows Vista for testing before the code goes gold, said Brad Goldberg, the general manager for the Windows client business group. That build will be made available to a limited group of between 50,000 and 100,000 testers in October, and follows the interim Vista build that Microsoft […]

PHOENIX—The focus on return on investment as an indicator of IT value is actually bogus and is increasingly not being seen as the best way to measure technology decisions, Stephen Walli, a former employee of Microsoft and Optaros, said at the Gartner Open Source Summit here September 28. In an address entitled “Enterprise Open Source: […]

Sun Microsystems is hoping to revive the fortunes of its grid computing initiative by moving that team into the software group under Rich Green, its executive vice president for software. While Green denied the move was an expression of unhappiness or dissatisfaction with the management and handling of Suns grid strategy to date, there is […]

PHOENIX—The issues of patents, indemnification and the potential risk of using open-source software took center stage at the keynote panel of industry leaders at the Gartner Open Source Summit here Sept. 28. Patent infringement against open-source projects is not really a threat and is just noise, said Stuart Cohen, the CEO of OSDL (Open Source […]

PHOENIX—Microsoft Windows will not suffer irreparable damage on the server side at the hands of the Linux operating system over the next five years, Gartner analyst George Weiss told attendees at the Gartner Open Source Summit here September 28. In fact, in terms of worldwide server operating system revenue, Linux would come in below both […]

As Microsoft Research celebrates its 15th anniversary this month, Rick Rashid, senior vice president of research, says he hopes that 15 years from now there will still be the same vibrant environment that exists today. “If we can do this for the next 15 years, the sky is the limit. I get surprised every morning […]

REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft Research demonstrated a number of cutting-edge technologies that are under development at an event here Sept. 26, including a transparent display that uses computer vision, technology that brings real-world aspects back into computing, and the use of spatial memory to navigate source code. At an event at the Redmond campus to celebrate Microsoft […]

The Free Software Foundation has moved to clarify what it says is inaccurate information being presented about the second discussion draft of the next version of the GNU General Public License. The foundation also used the opportunity to put to rest once and for all concerns that it will try to force people who have […]