ORLANDO—Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer laid off on rhetoric about Linux and open source, instead taking on Google and the opportunity that search, advertising and computing in the cloud represents for the software giant. Speaking in a staged question-and-answer session with analysts at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2007 here Oct. 10, Ballmer addressed what appeared to be recurring questions among attendees: What is Microsoft's strategy around SAAS (software as a service), and what is Microsoft's answer to Google?
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