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  • MS vs DOJ: Right verdict, wrong remedy

    As Microsoft lauds the ruling many legal experts view it as a serious blow to the company's case -- because the core of the DOJ's case that Microsoft is a monopoly was upheld.

  • Bill Gates: Designing your future

    The recent legal battles in which Microsoft have been embroiled, have not sidetracked Chairman Bill Gates from forging ahead with a plan to dominate the market for Web services.

  • Microsoft plays open but patent jaws still have teeth

    Despite Microsoft's claim it will not sue developers that build free open source software on Microsoft platforms, a caveat leaves a yawning space for its legal teeth to gnash those that commercialise the software.

  • Ballmer: "Dedicated" to court settlement

    Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer said Tuesday that the software giant was "dedicated from the top down" to meeting settlement guidelines from a federal anti-trust ruling against the company.

  • Linux player hits back at Ballmer

    Open source solutions provider Cybersource has lashed out at Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer's statement in Singapore that Linux is potentially in violation of various software idea patents.

  • Five years of Ballmer -- the effect on Microsoft

    In the five years since Bill Gates surprised the technology world by announcing he would give up his title as chief executive at Microsoft, has the company changed?

  • Is Ballmer's $100 PC possible?

    Microsoft's chief executive may well think that a $100 PC will solve the problem of software piracy - but it's a question of who is willing to bear the cost.

  • A Microsoft-Red Hat warming trend?

    The chief executives of Microsoft and Red Hat held a private meeting in New York, an indication that relations between the rivals might be warming.

  • Ballmer: Search was our worst mistake

    Microsoft's failure to invest more in Internet search technology was the company's biggest mistake in years, a chagrined Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said on Thursday.

  • 'To heck with Mario Monti'

    After getting nowhere with the European Union's competition commissioner last week, Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer offered a few humble comments and then headed home to await the worst.

  • Yahoo tests Google AdSense, Microsoft worried

    Yahoo will test Google AdSense in a significant departure from Yahoo's present ad strategy; Microsoft, which is hoping to acquire Yahoo, is worried the move may stifle competition.

  • I could tell you but...

    Microsoft gets accused of a lot of sneaky things. Who would have thought they were all true?

  • Microsoft gives US govt sneak peek of Windows 7

    Microsoft has said precious little about Windows 7, but it has provided at least one outsider with an early test version of the forthcoming operating system.

  • Microsoft finally rolls over in EU antitrust battle

    Microsoft has ended its long battle with European regulators by agreeing to comply with key elements of the European Commission's 2004 antitrust order, the parties announced on yesterday.

  • Microsoft answers Google's call on desktop search

    Microsoft will make modifications to Windows Vista's search feature in service pack one to appease competition concerns from Google, as well as head off further antitrust battles with US regulators.

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