Hungarian ceremony for Steve Ballmer

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer had to scramble for cover after a Hungarian student hurled eggs at him during a lecture in Budapest earlier this week.
The young man then launched into a rant, during which he accused Microsoft of stealing "from the Hungarian people".
Amid nervous laughs from the audience, the heckler concluded his short outburst with the words "Give the money back, right now!" before throwing three eggs at Mr Ballmer in quick succession.
The protester then left the auditorium to the jeers of his fellow students. Scrawled across the back of his shirt in black marker pen were the words "Microsoft = Corruption".
Mr Ballmer appeared from behind the desk and laughed off the attack, telling his audience: "It was a friendly disruption … now that broke my train of thought."

Cisco becomes a Windows Server reseller

Six months ago, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Cisco CEO John Chambers held a joint press conference to showcase their growing relationship with a few demos of Cisco-Microsoft interoperability. Now, they've taken that relationship to the next level with a joint branch office product.

Later this year, Cisco will begin including a bare-bones installation of Windows Server 2008 in its Wide Area Application Services appliances, which do WAN optimization and application acceleration. The initial appliances will add local print, directory, and domain services to Cisco's own capabilities via Server Core, a new trimmed down command-line Windows Server installation option.

Though Cisco includes elements of embedded versions of Windows in other products, this represents the first time companies will get explicit Windows services as a feature of a Cisco appliance. Potentially, this is an indication that Server Core represents an opportunity for Windows Server to show up in other places where it wouldn't have before.