Some companies are planning to skip Windows Vista, and that's OK, according to Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer.
Windows 7 and Windows Strata may be the stars of Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference next week, but the next version of Office has also landed a role in the production.
Microsoft plans to add multitouch interface to Windows 7, ZDNet.com.au's sister site, CNET News.com has learned.
Jeff Raikes, the Microsoft executive most closely associated with the emergence of Office, has described the rise of the product as the highlight of his long career at the software maker, which will come to an end in September.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday in the US that lines between on-premise software and Internet-delivered services were blurring, an industry shift the company was embracing.
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At the CeBIT exhibition in Germany this week, Steve Ballmer got on stage and told the world that Microsoft takes "green" issues seriously.
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In terms of applications, the mobile world still feels like a bit of a poor cousin where the Web giants are involved. How long til it shrugs off its rags like Cinderella and bursts into the daylight in all the finery it deserves?
As Microsoft's deadline for Yahoo to accept its takeover bid passes, the tech world is still waiting for information from either company on their wedding plans.
Microsoft's CEO points to his company's security advantages and dominance over open-source options.
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Microsoft will focus on adding new security technologies to its products, educating its customers and improving its process of releasing patches, CEO Steve Ballmer pledged on Thursday.
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At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks to Gartner research analysts, Yvonne Genovese and David Mitchell Smith about the company's strategy regarding software as a service, or SaaS, as well as its competition with Google in the office productivity and advertising markets.
At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke to Gartner research analysts about filling the gap and sharing the leadership role with top executives after chairman Bill Gates transitions away from his day-to-day duties at the software maker next year.
Microsoft plans to mark the business launch of Windows Vista and Office 2007 with an event in New York on November 30.
A new mobile-handset brand has entered the Australian marketplace, backed by heavyweights Telstra and Microsoft.
OpenGroupware.org has been launched with plans to create applications that compete with Microsoft Exchange server products.
Microsoft on Monday released an update to its Tablet PC operating system that lets a device habla espanol and at the same time parle francais.
Microsoft is moving ahead with plans to more tightly integrate the development of Windows, Office and its other programs--and much of these efforts are tied to Longhorn.
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