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    So Bill Gates is stepping down and passing the baton of CEO to his long-time friend, confidante, and coworker Steve Ballmer.

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    Things are really crackling at Microsoft now that the company's new CEO, Steve Ballmer, is shaking his fist at the whole anti-Microsoft world.

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    For Christopher Escher, his wife and two boys, getting 40 winks of sleep tonight -- or any other night -- has become a crap shoot. The only sure bet is that Escher can count on hearing the roar of large jets landing at the local airport 15 blocks away from his home in the Rose Garden neighborhood of San Jose, California.

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    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.

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    Despite the endless pressure to install the latest and greatest, many of the core technologies which are in use in the modern enterprise have been around for decades, if not centuries.

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    The original iBook wasn't everybody's cup of tea: veteran columnist John Dvorak described it as "girly". But this year's model sports a more conservative industrial design.

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