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Microsoft names new UK boss

...Tuesday that it has appointed a new head of its UK subsidiary. Alistair Baker takes over the job of managing director with immediate effect. For... Read more

30 March, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

New boss for Microsoft UK

...company since 1995, takes up the post from departing UK managing director Alistair Baker on 31 July, 2006. Baker, who headed up the UK for... Read more

10 July, 2006 by Sylvia Carr

Microsoft starts software fraud campaign

...There are links to organised crime, and it affects the economy," said Alistair Baker, managing director of Microsoft UK. Microsoft hopes to cut the overall... Read more

16 February, 2006 by Graeme Wearden and Tom Espiner

OSDL boss hints at Microsoft collaboration

...Cohen comments followed an earlier speech by Microsoft's UK chief executive Alistair Baker who tried to downplay the threat of open source to Microsoft... Read more

11 July, 2005 by Andrew Donoghue

Piracy cut back by compliance laws

...In an interview with silicon.com, Microsoft UK MD and European VP Alistair Baker said the tightening of company audits is forcing businesses to be... Read more

24 September, 2004 by Andy McCue

Microsoft UK head: We've grown up

...editor Michael Parsons spoke to the company's new UK general manager, Alistair Baker. What did you think of Microsoft's settlement with Sun?Sun... Read more

8 April, 2004 by Michael Parsons

Microsoft to announce new UK boss

...team," the Microsoft spokeswoman added. Rumours suggest that the successful candidate is Alistair Baker, but Microsoft has refused to comment on this suggestion. Baker is... Read more

23 March, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

Microsoft names new MD for UK

...the company since 1995, takes up the post from departing UK MD Alistair Baker on 31 July, 2006. Baker, who headed up the UK for... Read more

7 July, 2006 by Sylvia Carr

Microsoft launches 'terrorist-fuelling' piracy crackdown

...per cent. Speaking at the launch of the 'Keep IT Real' campaign, Alistair Baker, head of Microsoft UK, said the focus would be on cracking... Read more

16 February, 2006 by Andy McCue

Leader: Is mobile working really so great?

...for the launch of the mobile productivity report today, Microsoft UK MD Alistair Baker said up to 40 per cent of Microsoft's Reading campus... Read more

30 November, 2004 by silicon.com staff

Microsoft: "iPod has captured the imagination"

...to play for. In an interview with silicon.com, Microsoft UK boss Alistair Baker said: "The iPod is a good product and something that has... Read more

22 September, 2004 by Andy McCue

Government Gateway to be done the Gates way

...on the project to hit the deadlines the government agreed with Compaq. Alistair Baker, director of enterprise computing at Microsoft, said the first code is... Read more

21 November, 2000 by Sarah Left

HP and Microsoft set up Win2000 competency centre

...tools based on component technology for developing cross-platform enterprise management systems. Alistair Baker, director of consulting services at Microsoft, said the centre will enable... Read more

24 March, 2000 by Suzanna Kerridge

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