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HP CEO Mark Hurd told Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in an e-mail last year that HP’s call centers were “being overrun” by customers who were having difficulties upgrading to Windows Vista, a detail that was revealed in the unsealing of a court filing in the Windows Vista Capable lawsuit.

Shares of the company free-fall following comments by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer that the software giant is not interested in a Yahoo acquisition.

At its shareholder meeting, CEO Steve Ballmer said he expects headcount growth to be much slower for some time to come.

Here are today’s notable headlines.

Jerry Yang is no longer CEO of Yahoo. After a short and stormy tenure as CEO Yang is back to being Chief Yahoo.

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft and a search deal–if not outright acquisition–may not be too far behind.

CEO Steve Ballmer makes a throwaway remark about open source in Australia and sets the blogosphere abuzz.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the software giant and no intention of making a new offer for Yahoo–even though the Internet company is on sale relative to its first offer.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s developer powwow is getting some attention on what was almost a throwaway sentence.

Ballmer said Microsoft may look at WebKit, the browser rendering engine in the Safari and Chrome. Naturally, that turned into Microsoft adopting WebKit for Internet Explorer (Techmeme).

Programming note: In about an hour Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will deliver his first speech since the Professional Developer’s Conference to a select audience in Sydney.

Our sister site, ZDNet Australia is broadcasting the stream live at 11:30 p.m. EST, 8:30 p.m. PST–or 3:30 p.m., Nov. 6 locally.  Check it out.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said a Yahoo acquisition still makes sense for Yahoo and Microsoft shareholders. Yahoo shares shoot up more than 13 percent on the news.