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  • Microsoft discussed stake in Yahoo: Report

    Microsoft considered acquiring a stake in Yahoo after holding extensive talks with the Web portal company, according to the Wall Street Journal.

  • Microsoft to Google: Hands off enterprise search

    Microsoft is digging in for a fight with Google in the enterprise search market.

  • Ballmer: More 'Live' services on the way

    Microsoft launched its Windows Live online service just last week. But clearly, the software giant has big plans for more such "Live" services tied to its other software products.

  • Ballmer: We need a $100 PC

    What's one of Steve Ballmer's biggest headaches? It's not Linux or security breaches. It's piracy, the Microsoft chief executive officer said Wednesday.

  • Ballmer reveals Microsoft's biggest threat

    Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer rates customer inertia ahead of open-source software and search titan Google as Redmond's greatest competition.

  • Bill Gates to step down from full-time role

    Bill Gates, the man who started Microsoft and has been its public face throughout its three decades of existence, plans to step away from daily work at 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.

  • Court docs: Ballmer vowed to 'kill' Google

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer vowed to 'kill' Google in an expletive-laced, chair-throwing tirade when a senior engineer told him he was leaving the company to go work for Google, the engineer claimed in court documents made public on Friday.

  • Clouds over Redmond

    The latest delay for Windows Vista highlights a mounting challenge for Microsoft -- finding a way to update its most important product on any kind of reasonable schedule.

  • Ballmer: Microsoft needs better sales pitch

    Microsoft needs to do a better job of convincing customers that the latest versions of its products are worth having, CEO Steve Ballmer said in a companywide e-mail on Tuesday.

  • 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?

  • Gates, Ballmer top US$1 million in pay

    Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer have finally entered the millionaire's club.

  • Ballmer: Nothing's rotten in Denmark

    Steve Ballmer says there is a simple way to turn around Microsoft's money-losing enterprise applications business--make the whole world like Denmark.

  • Ballmer's open source assault gives Linux a leg-up: OSIA

    Microsoft chief executive officer, Steve Ballmer, has acknowledged Linux as the "only game in town" when it comes to competing with the proprietary software heavyweight's offerings, Australia's peak open source body claims.

  • Ballmer fails to sway the sceptics

    At Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tried to disabuse the thousands of IT executives attending the conference of two notions: Windows software is hopelessly insecure and Linux offers a better TCO (total cost of ownership) than Windows.

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