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• Windows 8 update: all the latest rumours, opinions and possibilities

  By Tim Greene | 25 May, 2012 14:35

  While it lacks the mobility usually associated with this class of device, there's an 80-inch tablet serving the head of Microsoft as a wallboard and as a substitute for other work-related gear.

• Microsoft's latest Windows Phone move: Changes at the top

  By Bob Brown | 14 December, 2011 05:24

  Getting a read on how well Microsoft Windows Phone has been doing has been tricky in recent months, with each indication of momentum seemingly offset with one or more negative market share or news reports. But Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's memo sent within the company Monday and published publicly by Microsoft indicates Windows Phone 7 probably isn't living up to Microsoft's expectations.

• CEO Steve Ballmer 'underpaid,' Microsoft says

  By Ann Bednarz | 05 October, 2011 06:46

  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer received compensation valued at $1.38 million this year, according to documents filed this week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. His total package is up roughly 2% compared to 2010, when he received compensation valued at $1.35 million.

• Microsoft CEO: Windows key to growth

  By AAP | 15 September, 2011 12:25

  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has assured analysts that Windows remains the software maker's financial foundation, even though slowing personal computer sales are raising worries about the operating system's ability to adapt.

• Windows 8 is coming in 2012: Ballmer

  By Robert McMillan | 24 May, 2011 09:33

  Microsoft's next version of the Windows operating system, dubbed Windows 8, will debut in 2012, company CEO Steve Ballmer said Monday.

• Ballmer plugs Windows 7 as an OS for all devices

  By Nancy Gohring | 06 January, 2011 15:59

  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer positioned Windows 7 as an operating system that can drive new and innovative products, as the company tries to fend off competition from tablet computers based on software from Google and Apple.

• Ballmer: Success requires a balancing act

  By Nancy Gohring | 16 October, 2010 05:49

  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was criticized for failing in markets where the company had been a pathfinder and being unattractive to recent graduates, during a conversation with students at the University of Washington.

• Wall Street Beat: Red Hat, Tibco and Apple lead tech charge

  By Marc Ferranti | 25 September, 2010 04:44

  Red Hat, Tibco and Apple helped buoy technology investor confidence this week even as economic concerns caused volatility in the markets.

• Cloud investment explodes - overhype or future vision?

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 03 August, 2010 09:48

  When Microsoft all but demands its partners ‘cloud up,’ and Japanese telecommunications provider, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Group (NTT Group), makes a $US3.2 billion acquisition on the premise of developing its cloud capabilities, it is obvious that there is an incredible buzz about the cloud. But is it realistic? And what about the lingering concerns that Australia is not quite ready to live up to the hyperbole?

• The two faces of Steve (Jobs and Ballmer)

  By Robert X. Cringely | 15 June, 2010 10:11

  Writing about Steve Ballmer and Steve Jobs always seems to get a rise out of my readers. Case in point: three letters I've received lately, two of which basically telling me I'm too stupid (and/or cheap) to live. Here are some choice excerpts.

• Interview: And the winner is ... Zap Technology

  By Matthew Sainsbury in Washington | 14 July, 2010 15:00

  2010's Microsoft Australian Partner of the year was ISV, Zap Technologies. MATTHEW SAINSBURY sat down with Zap's managing director, Garth Laird, to talk about the conference, Steve Ballmer, and the cloud.

• IN PICTURES: Microsoft World Partner Conference kicks off

  By ARN Staff | 14 July, 2010 11:57

  It's like a giant roadshow; more than 16,000 people attending; an expo so big you need to be fit to get round it; and then there's the characters - and there are plenty of them. Welcome to Microsoft World Partner Conference 2010 in Washington, D.C.

• Microsoft WPC: Ballmer heads for the cloud

  By Matthew Sainsbury in Washington | 13 July, 2010 08:58

  It was perhaps expected, but Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, focused much of his Worldwide Partner Conference 2010 on the cloud.

• Ballmer Bites Back, Disses the iPad

  By JR Raphael | 05 June, 2010 10:14

  Ladies and gentlemen, step up to the ring: We've got a good old-fashioned Microsoft-Apple battle a-brewin'.

• Steve Ballmer: General-Purpose PC Isn't Going Away

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 04 June, 2010 10:34

  Apple CEO Steve Jobs may believe that the personal computer--Mac and Windows PCs--will be diminish in importance in the near future, but Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer sees thing differently.