Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has announced the Startup Accelerator Programme, aimed at helping UK tech start-ups achieve long-term success
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have been close friends and business partners for nearly 30 years. But the two sometimes clashed over sharing power at Microsoft, particularly before Ballmer's rise to the CEO slot.
Yahoo may indeed agree to Microsoft's US$44.6 billion bear hug, but it will be over Jerry Yang's dead body.
Just days before he finally hangs up his hat as Microsoft's figurehead and inspiration (on 27 June), ZDNet.com.au looks back at Bill Gates' career over the past 30 years.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer believes the software giant needs to spend more on marketing in order to sell more copies of Vista and has hinted that sizable increase in its marketing budget is on the horizon.
At the CeBIT exhibition in Germany this week, Steve Ballmer got on stage and told the world that Microsoft takes "green" issues seriously.
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In terms of applications, the mobile world still feels like a bit of a poor cousin where the Web giants are involved. How long til it shrugs off its rags like Cinderella and bursts into the daylight in all the finery it deserves?
There are lots of fiddly little rules surrounding backup and disaster recovery, but some of them are, to be frank, blindingly obvious. At the top of my personal list would be this one: don't check your notebook PC as hold luggage when you get on a plane.
It's just two months until Microsoft plans to pull the plug on Windows XP arguably its best operating system to date.
During his Sydney trip, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made many confessions, saying its .NET platform has faced some issues and admitting to SQL Server's shortcomings.
Microsoft's CEO points to his company's security advantages and dominance over open-source options.
Microsoft is banking on the power of peer reviews by parading a string of customers who dumped Linux for Windows but there's something amiss...
On Saturday, Microsoft formally withdrew its offer to acquire the search pioneer, at least for now. So what happens next for Yahoo? A deal with Google looks likely.
Six months after saying the Liberty Alliance had "zero chance of mattering," Steve Ballmer might be eating his words as corporate heavyweights keep queuing up to enlist in the Alliance.
This week on Club Builder: Steve Ballmer gives a teary goodbye to Bill Gates, Mark Taylor moves into IT endorsements and we ask some Google Gears questions.
Microsofts technical team are restless and always pushing, pushing, pushing, to drive innovation, according to the companys CEO Steve Ballmer, who was speaking at a luncheon in Sydney today.
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Microsoft plans to mark the business launch of Windows Vista and Office 2007 with an event in New York on November 30.
A new mobile-handset brand has entered the Australian marketplace, backed by heavyweights Telstra and Microsoft.
A Japanese newspaper on Friday retracted statements attributed to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer regarding a new version of the Xbox.
Commentary: Last week, Steve Ballmer sent a memo to the MS troops about the threat posed by Linux and the open source software movement. I have a suggestion for Steve and Co.: Don't beat 'em. Join 'em.
The next version of the game console will arrive in 2006, Microsoft's CEO says, prompting renewed speculation about Nvidia's role.
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