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Seventy percent of the 40,000 people who work on software at Microsoft are in some way working in the cloud, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday at the University of Washington. “A year from now, that will be 90 percent,” he said. [ Get the no-nonsense explanations and advice you need to take real advantage of [...]

SUNNYVALE, Calif.–Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz thinks she can duplicate the modern-day Silicon Valley turnaround story–Steve Jobs’ return to Apple–if only people would give her a little time. “I know people want to see magic things happen,” Bartz said during lunch with a group of reporters at Yahoo’s headquarters. But she pointed out that it took [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer maintains a secret Twitter account for providing running commentary on high-school basketball matches: but that doesn’t mean he wants to buy the company. Ballmer’s booming voice filled the Santa Clara Convention Center on Tuesday morning at SMX West, where he was interviewed on stage by Search Engine Land’s Danny [...]

The U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission on Thursday both unconditionally approved Microsoft and Yahoo’s plan to work together in the field of Internet search. Microsoft will acquire a 10-year exclusive license to Yahoo’s search technologies. Microsoft will also hire Yahoo Internet search and search advertising staff. [ Discover what's new in business [...]

President Barack Obama’s 2011 budget proposal, released last week, would flatten federal IT spending and require federal agencies to consolidate IT operations. The IT budget is getting far less attention than the administration’s plan to scrap NASA’s program for a manned mission to the moon , but its call to implement the best practices of [...]

Microsoft has more than made good on its plan from a year ago to eliminate 5,000 positions by the middle of June 2010, the company reported as part of its quarterly 10Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Microsoft reported that its head count reduction since January 2009 now stands at 5,300. The original [...]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer defended the company’s presence in China in a message on Wednesday, after Chinese media seized on a statement by Bill Gates about Chinese Web censorship being “very limited.” “We have done business in China for more than 20 years and we intend to stay engaged, which means our business must respect [...]

Microsoft does not plan to follow Google’s lead in pulling out of China, the software giant’s CEO told news outlets on Thursday. “We’ve been quite clear that we’re going to operate in China,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in an interview on CNBC. [ The alleged China attacks could shape U.S. cybersecurity policy. | The [...]

Microsoft is scrambling to patch an Internet Explorer flaw that was used to hack into Google’s corporate networks last month. The attack was used to hack into networks at 34 companies, including Adobe, security experts say. Typically such hacks involve several such attacks, but the IE bug is the only one definitively linked to the [...]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said his company intends to stay in business inside of China and obey the laws of that country, following Google’s announcement that it is considering going home. “We’ve been quite clear that we are going to operate in China, (and) we’re going to abide by the law,” Ballmer told CNBC following [...]