Former Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer once considered Linux users a bunch of communist thieves and saw open source itself as a cancer on Microsoft's intellectual property. But no more.

Steve Ballmer. Steve Ballmer, the fiery former chief executive of Microsoft, has voiced support for the software giant’s recent move to cozy up to the Linux operating system.

Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, recently gave a talk to a small group of developers at Microsoft’s London office where he once again rattled the patent saber at Linux, this time specifically ...

Ballmer on Linux, licensing and .Net Written by CNET Networks, Contributor Oct. 14, 2002 at 3:10 a.m. PT By Mike Ricciuti Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer knows what it's like to be in the hot seat.

Microsoft chief executive officer, Steve Ballmer, has acknowledged Linux as the "only game in town" when it comes to competing with the proprietary software heavyweight's offerings, Australia's ...

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(Reuters) – Fifteen years after calling the open-source operating system Linux a “cancer,” former Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer has softened his position. Speaking on Wednesday ...

Steve Ballmer has reissued Microsoft's patent threat against Linux, warning open-source vendors that they must respect his company's intellectual property. In a no-nonsense presentation to New ...

During Wednesday's main attraction here at Gartner Symposium in Orlando, FL -- a keynote Q&A session with Microsoft's Steve Ballmer -- the CEO of the Redmond, WA-based company gave some details on ...

In his latest anti-Linux memo, Microsoft's chief also claims that Windows users benefit from a lower TCO, better indemnification and easy migration of ERP systems from Unix.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer identified Linux and open-source software as key competitive challenges to the company in a memo sent to all employees Wednesday. "In this environment of lean ...

Microsoft's recent efforts against the Linux operating system only show that the open-source platform is gaining ground, according to Richard Seibt, chief executive of Germany's SuSE Linux.