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  • Ballmer on tight rein in Australia

    Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer is in Sydney to meet with key customers and partners, and give corporate executives the Redmond view of "innovation with impact".

  • Linux marches on Microsoft in NSW

    IBM and Novell's inking of contracts to formally become members of the NSW government's Linux and open source panel should finally start delivering some real competition in state procurement.

  • Splintering on spam

    Information and communications technology (ICT) companies and governments are planning to drive their anti-spam efforts to new heights later this year. But will they founder in a sea of conflicting standards?

  • Ballmer reveals Microsoft's biggest threat

    Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer rates customer inertia ahead of open-source software and search titan Google as Redmond's greatest competition.

  • Is the Microsoft hate campaign working?

    It is easy, when writing on tech, to ascribe a lot of weight to the views and issues promoted by those with the loudest voices.

  • Aust government signs agreement to see Windows code

    The Australian government is to gain access to the source code underlying Microsoft's Windows operating system after signing an agreement with the software heavyweight in Canberra yesterday.

  • IE fix mends flawed open-source patch

    A Web site that published a third-party patch to fix a security hole in Microsoft's Internet Explorer has had to reissue the patch, after the original was found to be flawed.

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