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    Open source and proprietary software backers are going head-to-head for all the wrong reasons, and their resources and efforts could be better spent concentrating on beefing up applications, says Gartner.

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    At Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tried to disabuse the thousands of IT executives attending the conference of two notions: Windows software is hopelessly insecure and Linux offers a better TCO (total cost of ownership) than Windows.

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    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.

  • Liberty: Much more than zero

    Six months after saying the Liberty Alliance had "zero chance of mattering," Steve Ballmer might be eating his words as corporate heavyweights keep queuing up to enlist in the Alliance.

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  • Gartner's top 10 technologies in 2004

    Open source and proprietary software backers are going head-to-head for all the wrong reasons, and their resources and efforts could be better spent concentrating on beefing up applications, says Gartner.

  • Ballmer on Linux: "The evidence is clear"

    Microsoft's CEO points to his company's security advantages and dominance over open-source options.

  • Liberty: Much more than zero

    Six months after saying the Liberty Alliance had "zero chance of mattering," Steve Ballmer might be eating his words as corporate heavyweights keep queuing up to enlist in the Alliance.

  • Ballmer: Trusting Vista, battling Google

    Microsoft is at the start of "the greatest innovation pipeline we have ever had," CEO says. And no, he doesn't throw chairs.

  • Microsoft's 'big bang' could be its last

    When Microsoft releases its SQL Server 2005 database on Nov. 7, it will have been five years since the last version debuted. If Windows Vista arrives as scheduled next fall, it too will follow its predecessor by five years.

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    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is expected to unveil a new product intended to turn Office into a data-collection tool and boost sales of the desktop software.

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