Peter Galli

The non-games software market in the United States reported its best performance since 1999 last year, in large part due to the release of Windows Vista and Office 2007, and in smaller part due to releases from Apple and Adobe. U.S. software sales rose 15 percent in 2007 to $3.3 billion from sales of $2.9 […]

Microsoft has lost another round in antitrust court, with a new ruling extending by two years federal court oversight of the final judgments issued in the landmark U.S. antitrust case against the software giant. The decision extends those provisions of the final judgments that would have expired in November 2007 to Nov. 12, 2009, and […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Google will offer offline access to its Google Docs and other applications at some point in the future, but its focus is more on applications and data stored in, and served from, the cloud. So said Jonathan Rochelle, a senior product manager at Google, speaking on a panel about the future of the […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-If the concept of social media is to make an impact on the enterprise, it needs to be customized or built for business, and few products currently fill that bill. Employees are using social media tools, but new ones need to be developed and the enterprise still wants to know what the business […]

Microsoft’s strong second-quarter financial results surprised not only analysts, but also the company’s own executives by coming in $300 million above the high end of their forecasts. Microsoft also reported Jan. 24 a 30 percent rise in revenue, to a record $16.37 billion, in its fiscal quarter that ended in December, on the back of […]

Microsoft plans to start pushing out the third service pack for Office 2003 via its automatic update service beginning Feb. 27. That means that the service pack will be automatically installed on the machines of those customers who have signed up for Microsoft Update and who have not yet installed Office 2003 Service Pack 3. […]

As the United States economy continues to show signs of strain, one bright light is the software and information sectors, where the rate of growth has significantly outpaced that of the economy as a whole, a new study has found. This has helped sustain the expansion of the overall American economy over the past few […]

The slowing U.S. economy is not affecting Microsoft’s upbeat financial outlook, with the software firm expecting revenue in the region of $60 billion for its fiscal year that ends in June 2008. Microsoft also reported on Jan. 24 a 30 percent rise in revenue to a record $16.37 billion in its fiscal second quarter that […]

Microsoft has sold more than a 100 million Windows Vista licenses in the year since the new operating system was released, and the company has grown its client business by about 20 percent over the same period, company officials said Jan. 24. The software company also released the second refresh of Windows Vista Service Pack […]

The potential for IT to drive business success has never been greater, but the complexity of IT has also never been higher, Bob Muglia, senior vice president of Microsoft’s server and tools business, will tell customers Jan. 22. Muglia penned an executive e-mail: “Harnessing the Power of Virtualization for Dynamic IT,” which was sent Jan. […]