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Ballmer to meet with EU antitrust chief
September 29, 2005
Microsoft CEO, who will be in Europe on business, requested the meeting with Neelie Kroes, who heads the competition bureau.
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Microsoft, Adobe squabble over PDF
June 2, 2006
Breakdown in talks over the use of Adobe's PDF in Office leaves Microsoft bracing for an antitrust battle in Europe.
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Symantec won't 'whine' about Microsoft
October 12, 2005
Company won't complain to antitrust regulators or take the software giant to court, CEO John Thompson says.
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Sun settles with Microsoft, announces layoffs
April 2, 2004
update The deal dictates that Microsoft must make $1.95 billion in payments to Sun, which separately says it will cut 3,300 jobs, as its losses mount.
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Microsoft's Real deal
October 12, 2005
Software giant and RealNetworks hammer out deal that puts aside legal differences and aims to shore up their respective digital music strategies.
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Real, Microsoft reach truce
October 11, 2005
Long-running antitrust suit against software giant ends in $460 million deal, with millions more to come in partnership efforts. Photo: Gates, Glazer shake hands
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Antitrust truce frees rivals for bite at Apple
October 11, 2005
Steve Jobs rebuffed RealNetworks 18 months ago. Today's deal with Microsoft now bolsters an anti-iPod alliance.
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Bill Gates' extreme makeover
January 12, 2005
The Microsoft maestro is more accessible than he's been in a long time, but CNET News.com's Jeff Pelline says Gates' peers, and the tech industry in general, isn't.
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Judge: Gates 'not particularly responsive'
November 20, 1998
Microsoft's CEO has even drawn skepticism from the software giant's own legal team, Judge Jackson says in a closed session.
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A Microsoft-Red Hat warming trend?
May 10, 2005
CEOs Steve Ballmer and Matthew Szulik met for a meal recently, sources say. How's Microsoft feeling about open source these days?
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This week in Microsoft
October 14, 2005
Microsoft makes peace with RealNetworks and forms an alliance with Yahoo.
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Week in review: Microsoft makes nice
October 14, 2005
Microsoft buries the hatchet with RealNetworks and forms an alliance with Yahoo, but it's unlikely to cool the regulatory heat it's under.
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A Gates time line
June 16, 2006
A look at the pivotal moments in the life of Microsoft's Bill Gates, one of the world's richest and most famous/infamous men.
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Year in review: Lifestyles of the rich and infamous
December 26, 2004
Technology may seem inherently interesting, but it's still the people behind the hardware and software who make the best stories.
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Microsoft's rocky road to Mac Office 97
March 6, 2007
According to court documents, the founder of Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit fought a hard battle to keep Mac Office 97 alive.
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Glaser on finding harmony with Microsoft
October 12, 2005
RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser tells CNET News.com how he finally buried the competitive hatchet with longtime rival Bill Gates.
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