Microsoft Australia has confirmed that it will be reducing its local headcount in accordance with its plan to cut 5000 jobs globally.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wasn't the only attraction to grace the stage at the Consumer Electronics Show, with Australia's own comedy band Tripod stepping up to the stage to bring laughter and that certain Aussie something to the audience.
Microsoft's CEO touts the company's newly named online services chief and says having him on board would make a Yahoo search deal simpler.
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.
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.
In terms of applications, the mobile world still feels like a bit of a poor cousin where the Web giants are involved. How long til it shrugs off its rags like Cinderella and bursts into the daylight in all the finery it deserves?
We've got our own open source versus Microsoft stoush going on in New Zealand, with the government as a key player.
At the CeBIT exhibition in Germany this week, Steve Ballmer got on stage and told the world that Microsoft takes "green" issues seriously.
Without consensus on labour issues, the eventual winner of the NBN may end up as little more than a lame duck and a cashed-up symbol of the conflict between the desire for progress and the lack of mechanisms to deliver it.
You've only got to hang around a datacentre for about 30 seconds before someone starts raving on about virtualisation. While the cost benefits of virtualisation are obvious, the management challenges often get swept under the carpet.
On Saturday, Microsoft formally withdrew its offer to acquire the search pioneer, at least for now. So what happens next for Yahoo? A deal with Google looks likely.
There's still a lot Microsoft wants to do with Windows, and it has its work cut out with Zune, says Microsoft's CEO, Steve Ballmer.
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and Novell's Ron Hovsepian make an unlikely pair, and their pact has caught the tech industry by surprise.
Where's Ballmer? In this video, ZDNet.com.au journalist Liam Tung chases Steve Ballmer around the streets of Sydney during the Microsoft CEO's recent trip Down Under.
Don't miss ZDNet.com.au's exclusive live broadcast of a landmark Sydney speech by Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer on 6 November at 3:30pm, AEST.
With Steve Ballmer in the country this week, its time to present the "Best of Ballmer". Club Builder also looks at the goverment's firewall plans as well as news from Microsoft's PDC conference.
Club Builder this week takes a long look at Senator Conroy's recent attempt to explain his Great Firewall of Australia, we chase Steve Ballmer over Sydney, and find Google's biggest bug of the year.
Visting Club Builder this week: Steve Ballmer to speak in Australia, local ISPs say Net Neutrality is an American problem and we look at the best dressed from Tech.Ed
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.
Microsofts technical team are restless and always pushing, pushing, pushing, to drive innovation, according to the companys CEO Steve Ballmer, who was speaking at a luncheon in Sydney today.
Microsoft plans to mark the business launch of Windows Vista and Office 2007 with an event in New York on November 30.
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