Yahoo may indeed agree to Microsoft's US$44.6 billion bear hug, but it will be over Jerry Yang's dead body.
Jeff Raikes, the Microsoft executive most closely associated with the emergence of Office, has described the rise of the product as the highlight of his long career at the software maker, which will come to an end in September.
SAP may not be a household name, but it's the third largest independent software company, and has a powerful franchise. Yet a confluence of economic trends, new competitors and technologies threaten SAP's enviable position.
Microsoft has eased up its server licensing rules so that organisations can make more efficient use of servers in virtualised environments.
Google's approach to privacy is a decade behind Microsoft, the Redmond software giant's chief privacy strategist told ZDNet.com.au on Thursday in a video interview.
Trying to understand the logic behind Microsoft's development decisions is a bit like S&M: it's a painful activity probably best left to others. But a recent example from the storage world does suggest something about Microsoft's "people will beat up on us regardless" dilemma.
While there's not much that's more fun than stirring up Linux and Windows zealots into a frenzy of spite against each other, we thankfully finally seem to be approaching a more measured universe in which technology choices can be made based on suitability rather than preconception.
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.
At the CeBIT exhibition in Germany this week, Steve Ballmer got on stage and told the world that Microsoft takes "green" issues seriously.
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?
Five Aussie businesses take us behind the scenes during the early set-up phase of their tech companies.
Microsoft chairman claims mobile phone makers have to catch up to the power of his company's software.
As the company reaches beyond its Internet search roots, critics ask whether success may breed an identity crisis.
Sometimes you just must have the latest technology, and swallow the associated risks of being the first to use it. We talk to Australian companies that couldn't wait.
Here's the way things work at Microsoft. After correcting shortcomings in the first and second editions of its software, version 3.0 of a Microsoft product usually silences the company's worst critics, allowing management to get on with business of crushing rivals. But I'll be first to acknowledge that Silverlight breaks with that pattern.
News.com's Dan Farber and Ina Fried discuss how the deal fell apart and where the two companies go from here.
ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year 2007 Cesare Tizi says Windows Vista is big, requires lots of CPU horsepower and it will be a long time before companies will be able to justify moving to Microsoft's new operating system.
A European court dealt a severe blow to Microsoft's competitive ambitions in Europe on Monday by siding with regulators in an antitrust case against the company.
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.
George Stathakopoulos, general manager of product security at Microsoft, tells us how Windows XP SP2 came about and why the company is not yet ready to talk about XP SP3. He also explains that UAC in Windows Vista is designed to be part of a 'defence in depth' strategy and not a standalone security solution.
Office 2008 for Mac may be the best pick for business users, but most people can get by with less expensive alternatives.
Service Pack 1 (SP1) reinstates a lot of the functionality that Microsoft left out in order to get Exchange Server 2007 out of the door last year.
Microsoft Expression Web is a solid Web site layout program that replaces FrontPage and offers tools for dynamic designs, although we'd like more help for newbies.
All Lenovo computers worldwide will soon come bundled with Microsoft's Windows Live software, the companies announced Wednesday.
Windows Defender is free and therefore should be a part of your desktop antispyware collection. Still, it's best to get a second opinion, probably from your name-brand antivirus-plus-software application.
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