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Apps need easy desktop-cloud migration: Ballmer

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

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. Read more »

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. Read more »

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 CEO said Wednesday. Read more »

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. Read more »

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 Read more »

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. Read more »

Microsoft eyes cookie-cutter approach to services

When it comes to Microsoft's strategy for the managed services business, the game plan has a familiar ring: high volume and low cost. Read more »

Microsoft Splitting Visual Studio 2005

Microsoft has announced they will be splitting their flagship developer toolset into multiple products when Visual Studio 2005 is released early next year. Read more »

Microsoft to Google: Hands off enterprise search

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

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The truth behind Ballmer's revision of history

While speaking in Moscow, Microsoft CEO and Yahoo suitor Steve Ballmer said, "Yahoo was never the strategy we were pursuing, it was a way to accelerate our online advertising business... We will spend money on some acquisitions. You can do a whole lot of things with $50 billion." Read more »

Open source closes in on Microsoft

Microsoft has changed its tune toward open-source software--from denouncing it as a "cancer" that stifled innovation to "loving" the concept of shared source. Read more »

What if? an alternative history of tech

Michael Kanellos imagines a world where Apple licenced the Mac and wrestling is a corporate sport. Read more »

Longhorn beta unlikely this year

Microsoft's efforts to bolster security in Windows XP will likely delay the release of a widespread test version of its forthcoming operating system until next year. Read more »

Will MS Longhorn outflank Java rivals?

The debut of a new Windows operating system won't necessarily determine the outcome of the jockeying between Microsoft, IBM, Sun and BEA. Read more »

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Windows XP's last hurrah

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The mere fact that Microsoft will stop widespread sale of Windows XP at the end of the day has been a topic here and elsewhere for months. The most immediate question is, with Windows XP moving off the stage, just where is Windows Vista? Read more »

Tech.Ed day 1: C# by the sea shore

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Anne Kirah, Microsoft’s Senior Design Anthropologist delivered the opening keynote for this year's Tech.Ed event from the Sydney Convention Centre this morning. While she told the audience "I'm no techno expert" there were plenty of entertaining pointers to take away. Read more »

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    Even in the era of virtualization, many IT pros (including myself) have a small army of computers sitting on, under, and around their desks. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Staff Android devs less than gruntled

    Yet more discouraging news on the Android front. Having hacked off its developer community by releasing updated SDKs to just a small group of chosen devs, Google has now given the brush-off to a petition that called for more to be given to the wider community. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Staff VMware shows how not to do it

    As a developer there will be a time when you ship a bug -- be it a stub that you left in, or a flaming, crashtastic segfault. The next time this happens and your bosses come baying for blood, point them in the direction of VMware, who this week gave the developer world a great example of how to ship a showstopper bug. Read more »

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