Peter Galli

Microsoft is renewing its commitment to Partners in Learning – one of the pillars of its Unlimited Potential initiative – with a new, five-year $235.5 million investment. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will announce the new investment Jan. 23 at the Government Leaders Forum in Berlin, Germany, which brings the software company’s total 10-year investment in […]

Microsoft has bought Calista Technologies, which provides graphics technologies for next-generation desktop and presentation virtualization solutions, the company will announce at its Virtualization Deployment Summit in Bellevue, Wash., Jan.22. Calista produces software that improves the end-user experience of three-dimensional and multimedia content for server-hosted virtualized desktops or applications delivered using Windows Terminal Services. Microsoft has […]

Microsoft has done an about-face on its previous about-face and has now decided that it will allow all versions of Windows Vista to be licensed for use in a virtual machine environment. The software maker will announce this change of heart at its Virtualization Deployment Summit in Bellevue , Wash. , on Jan.22. Virtualization lets […]

Microsoft has hired former Disney executive Tony Scott as its chief information officer and corporate vice president, to replace ousted CIO Stuart Scott. Scott, who joins Microsoft in February, will assume responsibility for the software maker’s 4,000-person global IT organization, which is responsible for managing the technology systems that support the company’s worldwide sales, marketing […]

Microsoft may be looking to acquire Swiss-based computer peripherals maker Logitech International so it can better compete with Apple and other competitors of the Zune and Xbox, according to some analysts. Rumors about a possible deal between the two companies surfaced the week of Jan. 7, which helped boost Logitech’s share price, but neither firm […]

KIRKLAND, Wash.-Microsoft is planning an open-source translator project that will read a binary and then write this out in the Open XML format, bypassing the need for users to have Microsoft Office installed. This new open-source project will start on SourceForge.net on Feb. 15 and will fall under the BSD license, Brian Jones, the senior […]

KIRKLAND , Wash. — No format or standard is perfect. They are evolving things that morph, change and improve over time, said Tom Robertson, the general manager for Microsoft’s corporate responsibility and standards group, at a media event here Jan. 16. Microsoft’s own Office Open XML file format is itself evolving through the international ISO/IEC […]

Just when Microsoft thought the bulk of its antitrust woes were behind it, regulators in the European Union announced that they have opened two new such investigations against the software maker. The investigations will examine whether Microsoft abused its dominant position in the market to unfairly tie its Web browser to the Windows operating system, […]

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac hits the streets January 15 after close to four years under development and a year after Microsoft released Office 2007 for the PC. “What we tried to achieve with Office 2008 for the Mac is to help users get their work done more simply, and compatibility was a big driver […]

Unemployment among business-technology professionals has fallen to a decade low as the size of the IT workforce has risen to a record level in 2007, according to CIO Insight analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Joblessness among American IT workers averaged 2.1 percent last year, down from 2.5 percent in 2006. That’s the […]