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  • Ballmer sees squeeze on Longhorn deadline

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was in a lighthearted mood during a swing through the Netherlands, but did he give a serious clue about Longhorn?

  • Ballmer cites 'facts' in Microsoft's battle against Linux

    Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has used the software giant's latest executive e-mail to stoke up Microsoft's fight against the rise of Linux.

  • Gates', Ballmer's pay holding around $900,000

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Chairman Bill Gates each took home just over $900,000 in pay last year, a slight increase from last year, according to documents filed Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

  • Ballmer: Where Microsoft is going

    In his latest thinking about where he wants his company to go, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer has produced a document that is partly a sweeping business analysis and partly a call 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.

  • Vista is "New Coke"

    In a new study, Forrester Research uncovers some good news for Microsoft: Vista usage among US businesses is up by more than 40 percent since January. The bad news: still, less than 10 per cent of the 50,000 companies surveyed use Vista.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Ballmer: Microsoft can never be a one-trick pony

    While some critics may chide Microsoft for losing focus over its desire to play in many markets, from desktop software to game consoles to mobile devices, the company's top guy says it's a necessary move to stay relevant in the market.

  • 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.

  • Microsoft to Google: Hands off enterprise search

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

  • 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.

  • Gates, Ballmer top US$1 million in pay

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

  • 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.

  • Microsoft eyes services for business

    Microsoft may be rushing headlong into online services targeted to consumers. But for its all-important business customers, the software giant has been taking a more measured approach.

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