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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.
Microsoft's chief software architect Ray Ozzie reckons open source programmers' freedom from answering to shareholders makes it a greater threat to Microsoft than Google.
Jeremy Allison, a high-profile open-source programmer, has resigned from Novell because of objections over its patent deal with Microsoft and is moving to Google.
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Google is bringing Google Gears to mobile phones so that people on the go can access Web-based applications even when they're not connected to the Internet.
With digital information exploding, Adobe's outgoing CEO sees room for innovation on the desktop and the Web.
Alan Noble is the engineering and site director for Google Australia. ZDNet.com.au sat down with him to find out about the future of Web, and what Google really thinks about Microsoft's move into online applications.
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