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On the same day Novell and Dell announced a major Linux pact, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent customers a memo touting the benefits of migrating to Windows rather than Linux.

New OS enables efficiency savings, but Microsoft declines to simplify licensing.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has addressed the future challenges facing Microsoft and surprisingly, views Linux as a greater threat than Apple.

Movers and stinkers from the world of business

New OS will not be the silver bullet that reignites worldwide PC sales.

Replay our blog from the show floor at Steve Ballmer's address at "Liberation Day" in Sydney.

A decade or so on from the infamous Bill Gates pie-gate incident, it seems Microsoft executives are again under fire, literally.

Some of the people on this list are successful billionaires, Some Nobel prize winners or high-tech nomads. However, some individuals are weird even by geek standards.

Did Microsoft spend too long making Vista, as the chief executive claims? And will things be different with Windows 7?.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has proclaimed that economic conditions will help shift the tide against pricey Apple products and help consumers to see the error of their ways.

Steve Ballmer is in no way disappointed with Windows Vista. It is selling “incredibly well”, he told a press conference in Herzeliya, Israel today.

In a written deposition to court Steve Ballmer has denied all knowledge of the Vista Capable marketing program that resulted in a class action suit against his company.

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has warned Google that it may face problems by creating a new operating system, according to reports.

Ballmer gives board three weeks.

Linux distributors may have to pay Redmond for 'stolen intellectual property'.

Leigh Dyer has found holes in Steve Ballmer's pledge to work together with open source developers.

Redmond withdraws acquisition offer.