He knows he may never run all of Microsoft, yet Raikes harbors no hidden ambition to run another company.
He said the server domain is called Houston and that all of Microsoft's Web servers are set up the same way with the same disk image.
One can already see the outlines of the beast in the pull down menus linking all of Microsoft's online properties (Expedia, Investor, The Internet Gaming Zone, CarPoint, etc.).
Ballmer said the shift to online software and services will mean changes for all of Microsoft's businesses, which range from desktop productivity tools to database and e-mail server software.
The problem is most businesses will never make full use of all Microsoft Office's capabilities.
And now Google faces the most lethal threat of all: Microsoft , aroused, is taking aim at the popular site.
Giving me a device with all of my favorite Microsoft applications built in, supported and ready to use makes it easy for me to do business.
And now Google faces the most lethal threat of all: Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ), aroused, is taking aim at the popular site.
Engineered by 20-year-old whiz kid Blake Ross , and shepherded by non-profit organization Mozilla, Firefox quickly carved out around fifteen percent of the browser market, nearly all of it at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
Engineered by 20-year-old whiz kid Blake Ross , and shepherded by non-profit organization Mozilla, Firefox quickly carved out around fifteen percent of the browser market, nearly all of it at the expense of Microsoft's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Internet Explorer.
As a result of this, Microsoft has overhauled all of its major programs and services, from Office to Xbox to Skype along with adding the new Surface tablet to its line-up.
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Contrary to its name, though, the product that arranges all the routing among these scenarios is not a piece of glass at all but Microsoft's Kinect console.
Those obstacles are stamped all over Microsoft's recent overhaul of its Microsoft Network (MSN) Asian Net portals.
"It's all part of our reinventing Microsoft and putting the customer at the center of everything we do, " Johnson said.
In an ecosystem where Apple, Google and Facebook suck out nearly all of the oxygen, Microsoft is making a strong case for its own ubiquity outlasting the decline of its OS and office software.
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Perhaps of even greater importance, Microsoft also requires all outside vendors to read and comply with the Microsoft Vendor Code of Conduct, which also prohibits incentives such as kickbacks or bribes.
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Ironically, we lose the least amount of sleep over Microsoft, the priciest of them all.
With the death of most search engines (there were a couple dozen players in the 1990s) and the consolidation of the search market primarily in the hands of Google (for all its efforts, Microsoft only comes in second with about 20% of the market), discovery of website is substantially more difficult.
What I saw from Microsoft was all of that old stuff with a lot more added on top.
To me (d) is the biggest lost opportunity for Microsoft of all and perhaps is the object lesson in what nearly three decades of monopoly buys you.
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Now another company veteran, Julie Larson-Green, has been given the task of heading up Microsoft's most important division, running all of Windows software and hardware engineering.
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Winifred Mitchell Baker has all the scars of the netscape-microsoft browser war of the late 1990s.
Under our proposal, Microsoft would acquire all of the outstanding shares of Yahoo!
Nokia, Samsung, RIM and Microsoft all have lots of resources, and great historical experience in the market.
In other words, the Justice Department took aim at Microsoft and wounded all of us in the process.
He wants the utility to be available on all PCs, most of which run Microsoft's Windows family of operating systems.
But confidence comes from all kinds of places, and if Microsoft wants to be a leader again it will have to develop a style that is all its own.
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