CA Inc. has delayed issuing its final fourth-quarter and 2006 full-year results and restated its third-quarter results, partly because of the impact of its new sales commission plan. The move was not expected by analysts. CA said it may have to further adjust its third- and fourth-quarter results as well as its full-year results, pending an ongoing internal review into the sales commission plan.

Microsoft splits Sinofsky's duties

Microsoft Corp. has created two posts that split the duties of Steven Sinofsky, the former head of its Office engineering team who now leads the Windows unit. Antoine Leblond was named corporate vice president of the new Office productivity applications group. Kurt DelBene was appointed corporate vice president of the new Office business platform group, which builds SharePoint, Project, Groove and content management products.

AMD seeks to protect PC vendors' secrets

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has asked a Delaware judge to protect the trade secrets of PC vendors so they can testify in the company's long-running anti-trust lawsuit against Intel Corp. The move is part of a June 2005 lawsuit in which AMD claims that Intel has used its overwhelming x86 microprocessor market share to keep computer makers from buying AMD chips.