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  • Microsoft's Ballmer to come Down Under

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has revealed plans to visit Sydney later this year, speaking at the Committee for Economic Development of Australia on innovation and the digital Economy.

  • Developers want Ballmer to show money

    Australian developers have asked Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer what the company will do to address a Microsoft coding landscape that hasn't offered financial rewards like those available to iPhone and Facebook developers.

  • Apps need easy desktop-cloud migration: Ballmer

    The future lies in the platform in the cloud, according to Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer.

  • Ballmer claims Microsoft is thinking green

    Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has claimed that more efficient use of IT is one of the company's main priorities for the future despite the fact Microsoft has been widely criticised for producing resource-hungry software.

  • Ballmer: Google is leader in advertising

    Microsoft's chief executive officer, Steve Ballmer, has said that the software giant has a long way to go to compete with Google when it comes to search and advertising.

  • SAP CEO: Microsoft should have bought Yahoo

    If Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer were to call SAP CEO Henning Kagermann for advice, he would be told to spend his money on Yahoo.

  • Microsoft, Icahn join forces for Yahoo takeover

    Investor activist Carl Icahn and Microsoft on Monday asked Yahoo investors to oust Yahoo's board and in its place elect Icahn's dissident slate, potentially paving the way for a purchase of the internet company in its entirety or just its search assets.

  • XP receives kiss of death, long live Vista

    Monday was the last day on which Windows XP will be sold as a boxed product or licensed to PC manufacturers.

  • Ballmer offers UK start-ups Microsoft support

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has announced the Startup Accelerator Programme, aimed at helping UK tech start-ups achieve long-term success

  • Microsoft goes limp as OOXML vote nears

    Microsoft's top executives have promised not to sue open source developers who create non-commercial software based on Microsoft's protocols, but skeptics say it's a ploy to soften its image before the upcoming OOXML vote.

  • We will buy 20 companies a year: Ballmer

    Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Thursday, Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer said his company was on the prowl for acquisitions that made strategic sense.

  • Ballmer details MSN spending plans

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Thursday detailed just how much of Microsoft's extra spending will be devoted to bulking up its Internet services business.

  • Australian partners 'pleased' with Ballmer

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may not have quelled all customer concerns while in Australia, but partners said they were encouraged by his vision of the future.

  • 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.

  • Microsoft to Google: Hands off enterprise search

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

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