Microsoft's Sam Ramji trying to pull software giant into open source community
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer highlights move to software services
Product built with pieces from three acquisitions
IBM/Lotus Sametime at heart of strategy; Vendor committing $1 billion to develop platform
Company outlines finances of Yahoo offer, defends merits
Virtual Machine Manager will be broken out of System Center bundle, sold separately
Hire a Hero uses open source data integration tools job search effort
Microsoft partners say basic service won't appeal to many corporate customers
Vendor also part of historic multi-vendor patch for DNS.
