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  • Microsoft's government head to jump ship

    The executive who leads Microsoft's government sales efforts is leaving to become CEO of a telecommunications company, the software maker said Tuesday.

  • Aussie organisations shun Office 2010

    No large Australian organisations are known to be planning an Office 2010 migration, and many have not even completed their move to Office 2007.

  • Microsoft hunts developers in eco-tech push

    Microsoft has launched an effort to become a major player in the rapidly growing energy-efficiency market. The company is recruiting developers and is eyeing opportunities to produce software for building control systems, traffic management systems and water quality management companies.

  • Microsoft fires its CIO

    Microsoft fired Chief Information Officer Stuart Scott on Friday after two years with the company, saying he violated company policies. The software maker did not specify which policies.

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    Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has claimed that more efficient use of IT is one of the company's main priorities for the future despite the fact Microsoft has been widely criticised for producing resource-hungry software.

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    The remaking of the post-Trujillo era of Telstra continues apace, with Catherine Livingstone starting to put her own stamp on what was a fractious and fractured boardroom.

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    Being green, in terms of IT and datacentres, only very superficially has anything to do with saving the environment. In reality it is about cold, hard cash and how to spend less of it.

  • Q&A: Google's Alan Noble on the future 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.

  • 2007: How was it for security?

    Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.

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    What's the best mid-range server on the market? We put machines from Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Lenovo through their paces in our labs.

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    Microsoft and Panasonic are trying to get PCs and consumer-electronics devices to play well together when it comes to digital media.

  • Turtley Logical

    Should school students learn programming just for the sake of it?

  • Palm Zire 72

    If you can live without Wi-Fi, the midpriced PalmOne Zire 72 is a well-rounded PDA with features suited for both work and play.

  • iLife '04

    Apple's worthy upgrade brings some nice advances in features and power; the new addition, GarageBand, is the icing on the cake.

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