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Everyone in the Linux world remembers Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s famous comment that Linux is a “cancer” that threatened Microsoft’s intellectual property. Ballmer is still CEO of Microsoft, but that comment occurred in 2001, a lifetime ago in the technology market. While Microsoft hasn’t formally rescinded its declaration that Linux violates its patents, at least [...]

Microsoft’s chief executive on Thursday sought to address some common questions raised by analysts, but his answers may not have been exactly what they were looking for. While Microsoft reported its highest-ever quarterly revenue last week, the company was also criticized for lacking a well-developed strategy for slate PCs, and for continuing to struggle with [...]

Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday quashed rumors of HP Slate’s demise, saying the tablet with the Windows 7 OS may still be sold to customers. “We are in customer evaluations now and will make a determination soon on the next steps,” said HP spokeswoman Marlene Somsak. [ Stay ahead of advances in mobile technology with InfoWorld's Mobile [...]

Microsoft is giving its partners tools that could help drive more business to its cloud-based services. At the company’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference, being held this week in Washington, the new Microsoft channel chief unveiled programs that give Microsoft business partners free access to its cloud software as well as training. [ Earlier this week, [...]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer promised a sports arena filled with Microsoft partners that, within months, a number of Windows-based tablets would be hitting the market, and that the company is urgently working to bring its Windows 7 smartphone OS to market. With his usual energetic physical expressiveness, Ballmer kicked off the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference [...]

Contrary to a published report, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will not be presenting at the Apple WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) in two weeks. Speculation had centered on Ballmer appearing at the San Francisco event to talk about Visual Studio 2010 accommodating Apple’s iPhone OS-based devices, which feature applications based on the Objective-C language. But a [...]

The management shakeup at Microsoft’s entertainment and devices division doesn’t reflect dissatisfaction with the company’s mobile and game console strategies, company CEO Steve Ballmer said Wednesday. “Robbie Bach’s been thinking about the possibility of retiring and spending more time with his family. He and I talked about whether we should go ahead and announce that [...]

How much bigger can Google’s world get? As Google prepares for its third major developer conference, it’s getting ready to pitch its vision for the future of computing to 5,000 developers and media at San Francisco’s Moscone center. When I/O kicks off on Wednesday, don’t expect Google CEO Eric Schmidt to break out into a [...]

LAS VEGAS — Some users of Microsoft’s Windows Phone Series 7 will face a major hurdle when the mobile OS appears in devices during the 2010 holiday season — it isn’t backwards compatible with Windows Mobile 6.5 and earlier versions. Microsoft may not view the lack of compatibility as a hurdle because it is looking [...]

SAN FRANSISCO — Cloud security loomed over the RSA Conference this week as a major concern of business, but worry about the threat of cyber war was also strong, with officials from the White House and FBI weighing in to encourage private participation in government efforts to defend information and communications networks. During the highest profile [...]