VMware on Tuesday announced the abrupt departure of founder and CEO Diane Greene, replacing her with former Microsoft executive Paul Maritz.
Microsoft Australia has confirmed that it will be reducing its local headcount in accordance with its plan to cut 5000 jobs globally.
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer yesterday tip-toed around Australia's broadband debate but said that if the country was to engage in cloud computing business that telcos and the government needed to 'get on with' delivering high speed broadband at a fair price.
Microsoft plans to add multitouch interface to Windows 7, ZDNet.com.au's sister site, CNET News.com has learned.
Microsoft-flavoured media company ninemsn has appointed a new chief executive offer, Joe Pollard, who will start next week.
While Sun Microsystems went to great efforts to portray Scott McNealy's stepping down from the CEO role as a natural transition and part of a well-thought out succession plan, it was clearly not something the company had chance to chat to its printers about.
Will new business models cut down the amount of people breaking the law, reduce the market for pirates and remove the need for litigation?
Why do we insist on going into the office every day? The technology is there for us to work from home for part of the week.
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.
Is the world going to collapse if we own up to the fact that some Internet-based applications are a huge pain? I doubt it, but not everyone seems to agree.
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 digital information exploding, Adobe's outgoing CEO sees room for innovation on the desktop and the Web.
Speaking to the Novell boss at his company's annual BrainShare user conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, ZDNet.com.au's sister site, ZDNet.co.uk asked whether the Microsoft deal could actually be damaging in the long run and what effect a financial downturn could have on Novell's recent recovery.
Red Hat's new chief executive officer, Jim Whitehurst, talks about the Linux maker in an extensive interview with ZDNet Australia sister site CNet News.
For years, CEO of Salesforce.com Marc Benioff appeared in public wearing an "End of Software" button on his lapel -- just to rankle Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, or any other software mugwump making a killing on selling packaged applications.
The popularity of OpenOffice, the open source productivity suite, will be key to the financial success of Novell, said company president and CEO, Ron Hovsepian, who hopes to be a 'custodian' between the open source community and the commercial world. Also: Watch the videos.
Natali Del Conte reports from New York, where Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announces the launch of Windows 7, showing several new features along with a slew of new products that will run the OS.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says the downturn is going to have ripple effects throughout the tech economy.
ZDNet.com.au chases Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer around Sydney during his recent visit Down Under.
Watch Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's full speech in Sydney this week at the company's Power to Developers Event.
With Internet Explorer's market share down to around 90 percent and support for Mozilla's Firefox growing daily, it begs the question, does Opera stand a chance?
At RSA Conference 2005 in San Francisco, Symantec CEO John Thompson knocks Microsoft's security efforts and says the upcoming merger with Veritas Software will provide businesses with an optimal product for corporate compliance.
Michael Robertson, CEO of software company Lindows, has revealed himself as the formerly anonymous donor of US$200,000 in prize money in a contest to translate the Linux operating system to Microsoft's Xbox video game console.
Conceding that its strategy of patching Windows holes as they emerge has not worked, Microsoft plans next week to outline a new security effort focused on what the company calls "securing the perimeter," a company executive said.
Hoping to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe Systems plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months, the company's chief executive said.
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