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• 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.

• MS, Nortel reap comms customers

  A financial services group and a Victorian water utility are among the first Australia customers of Microsoft and Nortel's unified communications alliance

• Data#3 rolls out Office 2007, Salesforce

  Diversified IT products and services company Data#3 this week said it was in the middle of a two-year internal software and systems revamp, including roll-outs of Office 2007 and Salesforce.com.

• Ballmer calls for finance crisis resolution

  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer expressed hope yesterday that the US Congress would take action to address a deepening financial crisis, which he warned could ripple across spending on all levels of the economy.

• Windows chief jumps ship for Juniper

  Kevin Johnson, Microsoft's online and Windows chief and a key figure in the company's failed Yahoo takeover effort, is leaving the company to become chief executive at Juniper Networks, Microsoft confirmed on Wednesday in the US.

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• 10 ways the credit crunch will hit IT

  As job losses mount and with HP announcing it will lay off tens of thousands of workers following its purchase of EDS, we look at what the crunch means for the IT industry.

• Hoffman is Conroy's tasty new media carrot

  Hoffman's position on the board will ensure that the National Broadband Network Company can engage with the content industry in a meaningful way.

• Novell CEO: We made Microsoft open up

  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.

• CIO profile: Tony Clasquin of Bankwest

  If you think your job is stressful, just consider what Tony Clasquin used to do for a living: a pilot who used to work as an air traffic controller (ATC), he learned early on to manage "this very complicated 3D chessboard".

• Changing of the guard: Commonwealth Bank

  Get an insider's look at Commonwealth Bank of Australia's technology operation with chief information officer Michael Harte in the first of our Changing of the guards series examining generational change in the nation's big four banks.

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• Work together, IM giants told

  Instant messaging use is growing in offices and homes around the world, and the big players are being told by a standards board to work together.

• IM compatibility closer to reality

  The Internet's governing technical body gives a stamp of approval to a group intent on creating an open standard for instant messaging.

• Talking computers nearing reality

  Machines that listen and talk like humans are becoming a reality, researchers and tech executives say.

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