Alexander Wolfe

Microsoft has just been awarded two United States patents for a proprietary method of packing a high-definition television signal onto a hard drive, internetnews.com has learned. The development could help propel Microsoft’s digital media strategy, whereby the company has, since late 2002, worked to position its Windows Media 9 technology as an industry standard for […]

Aiming to propel Linux to the status of an official international standard, the Free Standards Group (FSG) Thursday is set to announce it has folded support for C++ and Fortran into its Linux code base. That combination of operating system and language technology, dubbed the Linux Standard Base (LSB) 2.0, is expected to garner International […]

The European PDA market is showing signs of growth again after a three year lull and Microsoft is gaining market share in the process, according just-released figures from market researchers IDC. The stats are further proof that many sectors of the technology industry emerged from the technology recession during 2003. Preliminary data pegged PDA shipments […]

This week’s LinuxWorld Expo in New York touted the advance of the open-source operating system into the sweet spot of mainstream enterprise applications. But consensus also emerged that Linux is also mounting a pincer attack that will see it ride into increasing service at the low-end in standard desktops and at the high-end in large […]

NEW YORK — A kinder, gentler Microsoft has come to the LinuxWorld Expo and Conference with a pledge to bury at least some of the hatchet with the open source community. “We know customers want to deploy Linux and we need to provide interoperability,” said Martin Taylor, Microsoft’s general manager for platform strategies. Taylor made […]

NEW YORK — With the recently unleashed Linux 2.6 kernel poised for real-world deployment by mid-year, IT managers must begin load-testing now to ensure their networks are compatible with the upgrade. That’s the message Open Source Development Labs’ (OSDL) lab director Tim Witham told attendees at a technical session at today’s LinuxWorld Expo in New […]

SCO Group unleashed its latest round of legal “shock and awe” just as the LinuxWorld show got underway today in New York. The Lindon, Utah-based firm filed what it called a “slander of title” lawsuit against Novell alleging a “bad faith effort to interfere with SCO’s rights with respect to Unix and UnixWare,” according to […]

Open Source Development Lab (OSDL), the Beaverton, Ore.-based organization dedicated to advancing Linux, is spreading its plans to roll a desktop specification it hopes will unify the operating system’s client-side profiles and help put to rest its image as a difficult-to-install platform. “We hope to put the first spec together by midyear,” Stuart Cohen, chief […]