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• Dropbox Security Breach: Who's Guarding Your Secrets In The Cloud?

  

  Drew Houston of Dropbox speaks during the Digital Life Design conference (DLD) at HVB Forum on January 23, 2012 in Munich, Germany. Dropbox is investigating whether its security was breached, leading [...] more>>

  Karsten Strauss, Contributor

• Backstage With Steve Ballmer

  

  This article first appeared in the Aug. 6, 2012 issue of Forbes magazine.   In early July I interviewed ­Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer ­onstage at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference. The venue [...] more>>

  Rich Karlgaard, Forbes Staff

• Yahoo: Pregnancy As The New CEO Job Requirement

  

  Marissa Mayer This last couple of weeks has been interesting. First there was a Vanity Fair article on Microsoft which pointed to the company’s lost decade and largely blamed Forced Ranking for the firm’s [...] more>>

  Rob Enderle, Contributor

• Microsoft to Apple: You Will Lose In The Enterprise

  

  Apple’s Enterprise torch just dimmed a bit and Microsoft is to blame. That’s not good news for Apple shareholders. Apple had the chance to define the future workplace, but have been largely silent on [...] more>>

  Mark Fidelman, Contributor

• Microsoft Unveils The New Office

  

  Today at an event in San Francisco, Microsoft  CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the customer preview of the new Microsoft Office, available now online. The New Office, which includes the widely used suite of [...] more>>

  Kelly Clay, Contributor

• Microsoft Aims to Take Down Apple's iPad -- And Maybe iPhone, Too, Ballmer Says

  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said pretty much what anyone who has been following the news around its upcoming Surface tablet already knows: Microsoft wants to take on Apple’s iPad and says it will leave no “stone unturned” in its fight to win over customers. But it’s more than just the tablet [...] [...] more>>

  Connie Guglielmo, Forbes Staff

• Steve Ballmer Goes HUGE! At Microsoft Worldwide Partners Conference

  If you had to chose between Microsoft's stock ($30 a share, $252 billion market cap) or Apple's ($614 a share, $574 billion market cap), which would you chose? [...] more>>

  Rich Karlgaard, Forbes Staff

• The End Of Microsoft ... As We Know It

  

  Steve Ballmer’s announcement of the Windows Surface tablet seemed to channel Steve Jobs: dressed in a dark shirt, a CEO making a glitzy product intro, and most remarkable, an integrated device strategy. [...] more>>

  Todd Hixon, Contributor

• Microsoft Buys Yammer: Who Will Make The Next Move?

  The $1.2 billion deal has potentially big implications for SAP and Salesforce [...] more>>

  Victoria Barret, Forbes Staff

• What Microsoft Must Do with Surface To Avoid Failure

  

  Microsoft announced its new Surface tablets last week.   Microsoft’s foray into tablet hardware signals historic importance.  Despite the sizes and opportunities of the PC and smartphone markets, Microsoft [...] more>>

  Darcy Travlos, Contributor

• Yammer, Microsoft and the Enterprise 2.0 Premium - Deliver Technology People Love

  

  Today Microsoft finally announced the worst-kept secret in Silicon Valley, that they have acquired Yammer for $1.2Bn in cash. That values Yammer, an enterprise social network, roughly 3x on a per user [...] more>>

  Scott Allison, Contributor

• It's Official: Microsoft Buys Yammer for $1.2 Billion Cash

  

  Microsoft Corp.  today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Yammer for $1.2 billion in cash. Yammer will be folded into the Microsoft Office Division and the team will continue to be based in San [...] more>>

  Shel Israel, Contributor

• Microsoft Confirms Yammer Acquisition for $1.2 Billion

  

  Confirming earlier reports (as well as the fact that neither company can keep a secret very well), Microsoft has officially announced that it has acquired Yammer for $1.2 billion. In a statement released [...] more>>

  Kelly Clay, Contributor

• Microsoft's Surface May Annoy Hardware Firms, But They'll Live

  Microsoft will play it as it lays. If Surface takes off, the company will support it. If not, Microsoft will fall back on idistributing through hardware vendors. Either way, it has to be bold. Nokia shows how quickly a firm can fall from grace. [...] more>>

  Roger Kay, Contributor

• Was Dell, HP Surprised or Angered by Microsoft's New Tablet?

  On Monday, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer told AllThingsD that the company's PC partners were prepared for the unveiling of the first Microsoft-branded tablet. "Our PC partners knew in advance we were announcing something today in this space," he said. (Read about a feature Apple's MacBook will never have here.) But when asked how these partners felt about the [...] [...] more>>

  Louis Bedigian, Contributor

• X Is For Entertainment

  While competitors dithered, Microsoft used its Xbox videogames to sneak into living rooms. Now it's ready to dominate home entertainment the same way it did home computing. [...] more>>

  David M. Ewalt, Forbes Staff