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  • 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.

  • Bill Gates: We're not looking for another Yahoo

    With its multibillion-dollar Yahoo merger bid yanked from the table, the Microsoft chairman said at a Tokyo press conference on Wednesday that the software giant has no immediate plans to jump on another deal.

  • Microsoft offer still undervalues company: Yahoo

    Yahoo on Monday responded to Microsoft's merger deadline, reiterating its rejection to the software giant's buyout bid as "substantially" undervaluing the company.

  • Motorola splits into two companies

    Under pressure from investors, Motorola has decided to split into two publicly traded companies, one handling handsets and accessories and the other taking on wireless broadband networks and enterprise-level communications services.

  • Yahoo uproots HQ from London to Switzerland

    Yahoo has confirmed that it is moving its European headquarters from London to Switzerland, even though its possible purchase by Microsoft may alter the plan.

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  • The Netscaping of Symantec and McAfee

    Vendors Symantec and McAfee have looked into the future and don't want to become the next Netscapes.

  • Is Windows still relevant?

    In the increasingly Google-YouTube-Web 2.0 age we inhabit, it's become fashionable to dismiss Windows as a relic.

  • Software's 'stack wars'

    To move ahead, big software companies are reaching back to a familiar strategy: offering customers a soup-to-nuts "stack" of software products.

  • A cure for business, IT disconnect?

    It's no secret that business and technology are frequently misaligned, resulting in failed IT projects and unmet business goals. As companies rely more on technology as driver of business results, the disconnect becomes more crippling. How do you close the gap?

  • IBM should indemnify open-source customers

    IBM is giving its customers the blues by asking them to assume financial and legal risk with its open-source software--that's after those same customers have already shelled out hundreds of thousands of dollars for the code.

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