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While Microsoft is cooking Office 14, the successor of the Office 2007 System, the latest version of OpenOffice.org has become available for download. OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 is a free and open source alternative to the Redmond giant's productivity suite, which has lost the advantage of the ISO standard Open Docume... |
9 October 2008
16:21 GMT |
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Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said that the Xbox 360 gaming console is “an absolute home run”. He believes that the recent move to cut the prices of the device to make it competitive with the Nintendo made Wii console is a sign of good business acumen and not one of desperation, as some ... |
7 October 2008
03:28 GMT |
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While the class action lawsuit over the Windows Vista Capable program continues, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer has managed to take himself out of the equation. According to a deposition filed on behalf of the CEO, Ballmer indicated that he had little involvement in the Windows Vista Capable program.... |
6 October 2008
09:15 GMT |
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Microsoft is preparing to develop a tailored Windows XP desktop for cheap portable computers via its Microsoft Magellan Learning Suite, in collaboration with the Portuguese government. According to the Redmond company, Magellan computers will come preloaded not only with the XP operating system but also with the Offi... |
6 October 2008
05:15 GMT |
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In 2007, Microsoft invested a consistent portion of its overall $7 billion R&D budget in Europe. According to data provided by the Redmond company itself, no less than €430 million went to research and development in Europe in 2007, and the software giant is looking to increase its investment in innovation &ldqu... |
3 October 2008
07:12 GMT |
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With Windows 7 in the baking oven, Microsoft is looking past its traditional roots on the desktop to the Internet. In this context, the Redmond company is not only gearing up to release the pre-Beta bits of Windows 7 at the end of October, but also the first Beta of a new Windows operating system. In October 27-30, 2... |
3 October 2008
04:10 GMT |
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You would think that, just because two companies are active in two different market segments, they wouldn’t have bad things to say about each other, especially if said companies also happen to be two of the biggest players in the IT market, Intel and Microsoft. Well, recent reports show that at least one of the... |
3 October 2008
03:22 GMT |
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The cloud computing concept is gaining more followers each passing day, as major companies in the IT industry, including Google, Intel, IBM and others have already made the initial steps in the development and future adoption of a cloud computing solution. Microsoft is also highly interested in the phenomenon, a fact... |
2 October 2008
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Just three months after Bill Gates retired from his day-to-day role at Microsoft, Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is divorcing the company from the motto that helped put it on the map. Ballmer revealed during a Q&A session at The Churchill Club the past week that the Redmond giant had outgrown Bill Gates' ... |
30 September 2008
10:46 GMT |
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Last time Microsoft's Chief Executive Officer embarked on a European tour, he managed to find a raw egg omelette a tad hard to swallow, as he was egged in Budapest, Hungary on May 19, 2008, during his keynote address at the Entrepreneurship Forum at Corvinus University. But the Hungarian egg incident has not rui... |
29 September 2008
08:02 GMT |
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently took a shot at foreseeing, stressing that Apple's iPhone had a short lifespan, while Nokia and Research in Motion would bow to the Windows makers, in terms of mobile software offerings.In fact, Microsoft's boss went as far as predicting the end of iPhone's life in a... |
26 September 2008
13:51 GMT |
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Steve Ballmer has never been afraid to go overboard when it comes down to demonstrating his love for Microsoft, the company's products or the ecosystem built around those products. But, while a pseudo-retired Bill Gates continues to be synonymous with the Microsoft brand, a little room for the company's Chi... |
22 September 2008
12:48 GMT |
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Once the traditional anti-open source poster child, Microsoft is slowly seeing this aura eroding replaced as a direct consequence of the rise of new, more pressing, rivals such as Google and Apple. Furthermore, the Redmond company, once the epitome of the proprietary software business model, while still retaining its... |
30 July 2008
13:13 GMT |
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It's simply a dog eat dog world wide web, and Microsoft and Yahoo are two players caught in what by now seems a perpetual takeover ballet. The figures to emerge in the latest act of this Internet search and advertising acquisition saga are Roy Bostock, Chairman of Yahoo, investor Carl Icahn, and Microsoft Chief ... |
15 July 2008
06:43 GMT |
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There is a time for translucency, and there is also a time for transparency. The under promise and overachieve policy set in place at Microsoft for the Windows and Office projects by Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group has impacted both Windows 7 and Office 14. Microsoft... |
11 July 2008
10:39 GMT |
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It's game time for Microsoft in virtualization, revealed Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 in Houston, Texas on June 10, 2008. The CEO's focus is intimately connected with the release to manufacturing of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and t... |
11 July 2008
07:57 GMT |
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Users that are holding their breath waiting for an open source Windows 7, Windows 8 or Office 14 are advised to exhale. Going against a hugely popular saying, Microsoft is firm in saying "never" to open source. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer had a single answer to a question presented at the Microsoft Worldwid... |
11 July 2008
06:42 GMT |
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Surf's up for Microsoft, as the software giant needs to at least replicate the performance of rivals Google and Apple in terms of navigating the "coolness" wave. However, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer revealed that it is not actually a case of what company is cooler at the Worldwide Partner Con... |
10 July 2008
10:12 GMT |
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Yesterday, June 27, 2008 was a day that made it into history simply because it marked the transition of Bill Gates out of his day-to-day role at Microsoft, a company founded together with Paul Allen in 1975. As of June 28, Microsoft is officially sans Bill Gates, now 52 years old and committed to focusing almost excl... |
28 June 2008
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On June 27, 2008 Bill Gates will be moving ahead and wrap up the transition out of his day to day role with the software giant he co-founded. This proves to be the ripe context for the Microsoft Chairman to deliver a retrospective view over his life. In the video embedded at the bottom of this article, Bill Gates loo... |
24 June 2008
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Microsoft Co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates announced in mid-2007 that June 27, 2008 would be his last day at Microsoft and that he would enter a two year transition period out of his day-to-day responsibilities. Well, the two years are up and the Day is approaching at fast pace, now just a week away. Gates has alre... |
23 June 2008
13:54 GMT |
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Say what you will about Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer, but the truth is that the CEO managed to provide historical performances on stage along his 28 years with Microsoft. The continuous object of ridicule and mockery, some of those performances are undoubtedly part of popular culture, and at Micros... |
4 June 2008
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As much as Microsoft is trying to make the availability date for the next iteration of the Windows client ambiguous, officially pointing to a development process scoped for 2010, Windows 7 is actually dropping at the end of 2009, were we to believe Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer. In the past, Microsoft Chairma... |
28 May 2008
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer made an on stage appearance together at the D6 - All things Digital Conference in their 28th year together at Microsoft. The interview touched a variety of subjects from the early days of the company, to Google, Yahoo, Windows Vista, Windows 7 an... |
28 May 2008
10:23 GMT |
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Despite speculation and forecasts that Microsoft was going to adopt a new strategy for Windows development as far as future releases go, with a strong focus placed on modularization, the company promised that Windows Vista would not be the last of its kind. Windows 7, the next monolithic iteration of the Windows clie... |
26 May 2008
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The Microsoft and Yahoo acquisition saga continues after the Redmond company revealed that it was exploring alternatives designed to help it solidify and increase its shares of the online search and advertising markets. On May 18, Microsoft made public its intentions to acquire a part of Yahoo, but not the entire Sun... |
20 May 2008
11:37 GMT |
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Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer had nothing but high hopes ahead of his visits in Central and Eastern Europe that were scheduled to debut in Budapest, Hungary on May 19, 2008. But a less traditional reception awaited the CEO of Microsoft in the final stage of his Hungary visit. Ballmer participated at... |
20 May 2008
06:33 GMT |
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Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is right on track to visiting the company's fastest-growing market worldwide from May 19 to May 23. According to the Redmond giant, Central and Eastern Europe outperforms even China in terms of growth, and in this context, Ballmer will head for five countries in th... |
19 May 2008
12:21 GMT |
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Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is scheduled to undertake an extended tour of Central and Eastern Europe between 19 and 24 May, 2008. The series of visits in the region will be a first for Microsoft's CEO, and according to Vah Torossian, regional vice president of Microsoft Central and Eastern E... |
8 May 2008
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"Unhealthy" because anyone who's ready to switch to the Mac and reads Rob Enderle's "A Tale of Two Steves" is most likely going to end up very confused, not to mention negatively influenced. Rob Enderle runs The Enderle Group. In Mr Enderle's opinion, "Jobs is like a master craftsman" while "Ballmer is... |
7 May 2008
05:45 GMT |
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From the start of February and until the debut of May, Microsoft's new strategy on the search engine and online advertising markets seemed focused on the acquisition and integration of Yahoo as a key component. Microsoft insisted all along that the Sunnyvale Internet giant was just an aspect of its evolution, an... |
7 May 2008
05:21 GMT |
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Yahoo never said no to an unsolicited marriage proposal from Microsoft dating back to February 1, 2008, instead it just wanted a bigger dowry. After initially asking for over $40 per share, namely in excess of $60 billion, Yahoo would have joined up with Microsoft for as "little" as $37 per share or "just" $55 billio... |
5 May 2008
10:26 GMT |
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What's $5 billion among friends? Well, nothing more than a deal breaker. $5 billion were more than enough for Microsoft to walk away from Yahoo. Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer revealed the Redmond company's decision this past weekend following the final round of failed negotiations with the... |
5 May 2008
03:39 GMT |
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Chris Liddell, Microsoft's chief financial officer revealed that the Redmond company would not offer anything on top of the initial $44.6 takeover bid for Yahoo simply because it can afford to do so. In this manner, Liddell crushed speculations that Microsoft was going to sweeten the deal it had offered Yahoo at... |
25 April 2008
13:33 GMT |
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The third service pack for Windows XP, and also the last major update that the operating system will get in its lifetime, was released to manufacturing on April 21, 2008. The service pack indicates that there is still life left into the aging platform, now over six years old, even though Microsoft is rushing it to th... |
24 April 2008
10:14 GMT |
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Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is on a tour of Europe and Africa that will see him visit five different countries at the rate of one per day. Ballmer's visits come together with the inking of new partnerships between Microsoft and governments and local NGOs, designed to fuel technology adoption ... |
22 April 2008
06:55 GMT |
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Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer called the latest Windows client, Windows Vista, "a work in progress," at the Microsoft 2008 Most Valuable Professional Global Summit in Seattle, on April 17, 2008. But even if the statement has different connotations, and can be interpreted in more ways than one, the truth of th... |
18 April 2008
06:27 GMT |
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With the February 2008 $44.6 billion marriage proposal, Microsoft showed Yahoo some tough love, at the end of almost two years of failed private takeover negotiations. The Sunnyvale Internet giant, seen as the only way for the Redmond company to grow its online search and advertising business in the Google near-monop... |
10 April 2008
03:56 GMT |
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Yahoo, through the voices of Roy Bostock, Chairman of the Board, and Jerry Yang, Chief Executive Officer, responded to a letter from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer threatening a proxy battle and direct contact with the Sunnyvale Internet giant's shareholders, unless the $44.6 billion acquisition proposal is accept... |
7 April 2008
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Microsoft is gearing up for the decisive move against Yahoo. The Redmond company has given the Sunnyvale Internet giant a heads-up the past weekend, courtesy of a new letter sent to the Yahoo Board of Directors and signed by Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer. The original $44.6 billion unsolicited acqu... |
7 April 2008
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With a market that has the potential to explode to no less than $80 billion at stake by 2010, neither Microsoft nor Google are backing down as far as Yahoo is concerned. In the first day of February 2008, Microsoft has made a $44.6 billion acquisition proposal for Yahoo. On the heels of the bid, Google came out and c... |
17 March 2008
14:56 GMT |
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Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer revealed that Microsoft is nothing short of on the leading edge of "green" when it comes down to the strategy implemented to address environmental and sustainability problems. In the Q&A round of his keynote at Convergence 2008, on March 12, Ballmer stated that he consi... |
13 March 2008
11:38 GMT |
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If you think that the first service pack for Windows Vista has managed to fix what was broken with the latest Windows client, think again. The same problems that were initially associated with the gold version of Vista have survived and moved on as the legacy of SP1. At the end of its first year of availability on th... |
13 March 2008
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Microsoft is getting ready to fire its Windows Vista Service Pack 1 heavy guns, and the first question that comes to mind is what will be the impact delivered to direct rivals Linux and Mac OS X? Vista SP1 heavy guns are nothing more than a combination of the service pack itself along with the price discounts announc... |
11 March 2008
14:54 GMT |
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Apple and Microsoft are generally perceived as situated at opposite poles of the technology spectrum. And for a range of products this is by all means entirely true. From the iPod and Zune face-off to the inherent comparison between Windows and Mac OS X, the Cupertino and Redmond companies are clearly going head to h... |
10 March 2008
11:27 GMT |
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If you think that you have already seen the last of the on-stage public shenanigans of Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer, then you are sadly mistaken. And while I am sure that you are all but too familiar with the "developers, developers, developers" chant and dance, I have included the video at the bot... |
7 March 2008
10:35 GMT |
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Microsoft is just one of the presences over at CeBIT 2008, Europe's largest technology fair, and the company is focusing entirely on environmental and enterprise solutions. Microsoft's Chief Executive Office Steve Ballmer offered examples of the work being poured into the evolution of information technology... |
4 March 2008
09:51 GMT |
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Microsoft is still wooing Yahoo with the $44.6 billion offer still on the table. From the get-go, as it went live with its unsolicited acquisition bid of $31 per share for Yahoo on February 1, 2008, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said that a negative answer from the Sunnyvale Internet giant will not ... |
3 March 2008
12:38 GMT |
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Microsoft is aiming high with its goals related to virtualization. The Redmond company is by no means the leader of the virtualization market, but has come up with a strategy that could very well take it to the top. Concomitantly with the latest Windows Server operating system, Microsoft is also making available a vi... |
28 February 2008
08:44 GMT |
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The Heroes Happen Here official launch event for Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, represents the kick start of Microsoft's vision for what the company's Chief Executive Officer, Steve Ballmer, referred to as a dramatic step forward in terms of a new level of security, in virtuali... |
28 February 2008
01:54 GMT |
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