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  • Critics pour scorn on Ballmer patent 'FUD'

    Analysts believe Steve Ballmer's claim that governments who use Linux face the threat of patent lawsuits could rebound on Microsoft, while open-source vendors accuse it of spreading more fear, uncertainty and doubt .

  • 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: United, we'll stomp on Linux

    Microsoft's taking a leaf out of Linux's book to fight off its open-source rival--it's calling its dedicated band of supporters to arms.

  • Ballmer: No sleep lost over Linux

    Exclusive: Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, playing up to his legendary image as a hard-driving salesman, didn't mince words in discounting the gathering threat to Microsoft's ambitions posed by Linux.

  • Ballmer and Gates are quitters, says Sun boss

    Scott McNealy claims Microsoft's management got the steal on the competition by dropping out of college.

  • Ballmer grins and bears Linux-a little

    Despite his fondness for Windows, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says the company will make it easier for businesses to manage a wide variety of machines -- including those running Linux.

  • McNealy touts 'excitement' of backup tape

    Sun CEO defends StorageTek acquisition and adds open source to his usual hit list of Microsoft and IBM.

  • HP tells Sun to get its facts straight

    Hewlett-Packard has formally demanded that Sun Microsystems and its president, Jonathan Schwartz, stop publishing what it calls "misleading and factually incorrect statements" about HP's commitment to its version of Unix--but Sun is standing firm.

  • Has Microsoft gone soft?

    When you're the industry's 800-pound gorilla, what's a few billion dollars to pay for problems to disappear?

  • Sun settles with Microsoft, announces layoffs

    Sun Microsystems announced on Friday that it has moved to a new phase of legal and technical cooperation with longtime foe Microsoft that will involve a payment of US$1.95 billion to Sun.

  • What's on their mind? Linux and IBM

    The mind-bending spectacle of Steve Ballmer and Scott McNealy swapping Detroit Red Wings jerseys and yukking it up onstage at a swank San Francisco hotel made for a fetching photo opportunity.

  • Should McNealy step down?

    Scott McNealy is a crusader - but questions are beginning to be raised about whether it might be best for Sun if he let someone else take the helm.

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