Thor Olavsrud

Aiming to make its Windows CE operating system more attractive to device manufacturers, Microsoft late Wednesday debuted the Windows CE Shared Source Premium Licensing Program (CEP). CEP, a program under Microsoft’s Shared Source Initiative, qualified OEMs, silicon vendors and systems integrators will have full access to the Windows CE source code, and will additionally have […]

With the release of Windows Server 2003 and Visual Studio .NET 2003 on April 24, Microsoft will bring two of the final pieces of its .NET vision into play. Office 2003, slated for release later this year, and the release of ‘Yukon,’ a forthcoming version of SQL Server, will complete the stack of XML-geared software, […]

Stealing a march on arch-rival Intel , AMD Wednesday won the endorsement of Microsoft for its 64-bit chips on the desktop. Microsoft said Wednesday that it is developing native 64-bit versions of its Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 operating systems designed to support AMD’s forthcoming Opteron and Athlon 64 processors. Microsoft is looking to […]

Business software maker Siebel Systems forged a strategic alliance with AT&T Tuesday, wedding its eBusiness applications software with AT&T’s managed services in order to deliver end-to-end managed services for mission critical applications. The two partners said their alliance will allow them to bring AT&T’s portfolio of managed services — including hosting, business continuity and storage […]

Red Hat charted a course beyond the operating system Monday, revealing its new Red Hat Enterprise Applications family, starting with the Red Hat Enterprise Content Management System (CMS) and the Red Hat Enterprise Portal Server. The new applications give Red Hat a foothold higher up in the stack, adding a revenue stream while making its […]

Microsoft took its Windows Server 2003 code gold Friday, releasing the code to manufacturers and readying it for the product launch in San Francisco on April 24. The new server operating system, previously known as Windows .NET Server, is one of the cornerstones of Microsoft’s .NET strategy — together with Microsoft’s Office 2003 and Visual […]

Red Hat disappointed analysts Tuesday, recording a net loss of $56,000 for its fourth quarter, though it said it broke even on a per-share basis. Analysts had been looking for 1 cent per share earnings. The company cited a foreign currency loss of $900,000 as part of the shortfall, though erosion of the company’s retail […]

It seems Red Hat is going to skip maintenance builds for its Red Hat Linux 8 distribution and skip directly to version 9.The company said it will make Red Hat Linux 9 ISOs (ISOs are files containing a CD-ROM disk image of a Linux distribution) available to subscribers to its Red Hat Network on March […]

NEW ORLEANS — Microsoft has committed to extending mobile capabilities to nearly every aspect of its business; Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates told a full house at his keynote Wednesday at its Microsoft Mobility Developer Conference 2003. The company’s inaugural conference specifically on this topic was co-located with the CTIA Wireless 2003 show […]

With the recent beta release of Microsoft Office 2003 out the door earlier this week, many customers got their first look at what Microsoft hopes will re-write the office productivity landscape with a new ecosystem of collaborative functionality based on XML . But will organizations have to buy into an entirely Microsoft architecture to tap […]