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		<title><![CDATA[Ballmer: Windows 7 sales on a roll]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-367058.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Delivering opening remarks at Microsoft's shareholder meeting on Thursday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said that Windows 7 was off to a "fantastic start."  Delivering opening remarks at Microsoft's shareholder meeting on Thursday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said that Windows 7 was off to a "fantastic start." ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:55:06 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ballmer touts Windows 7 features]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://news.zdnet.com/2422-19178_22-242240.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed that Windows 7 is going to be a major release, not just a Vista update. He says the new Windows will have a better user interface, information management tools, and performance. It isn't practical to wait for Windows...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:40:52 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft: Expect Windows installed base to hit 1 billion by mid-2008]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=596]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Windows installed base will hit the 1 billion mark by the end of Microsoft's fiscal 2008 (which ends on June 30), according to Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO."There will be more PCs running Windows than automobiles at that point," Ballmer told attendees of the company's annual Financial Analyst Meeting FAM...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:02:16 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ballmer: Caught between a software rock and a services hard place]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=567]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is not one to make concessions. He has laughed about Linux's prospects. He has pooh-poohed the iPhone. He has called Google bloated.But on July 10, during his keynote address at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, Ballmer came the closest I've ever heard him to admitting...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:44:43 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[D5: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on the hot seat]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5195]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[For the opening session at the D conference this morning, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that his company was a lot more nimble today than when it had 30 people. He was responding to a question from conference co-host Walt Mossberg how the company deals with huge scale of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 09:29:14 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Software 2007: Ballmer touts Office for composite apps]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5018]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[At the Software 2007 conference in Santa Clara, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer paced across the stage explaining Microsofts software + services platform strategy to the crowd of IT execs and software vendors and promoting the business value of Office Business Applications OBAs, which uses Office as a front end for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 15:15:38 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Vista sales strong: Ballmer can breathe a sigh of relief]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=411]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The reports are in: Microsoft had a strong Q3 FY 2007. Microsoft attributed solid results to stronger than believed Windows Vista and Office 2007 sales. Xbox sales were way off for the quarter, and the online services business dove further into the red. But Vista and Office 2007 triumphed over...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:18:43 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ballmer: SaaS to have a major impact on businesses, not just consumers]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=398]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft is expecting Web 2.0 and software-as-a-service SaaS to "have as profound an impact on the business market as on the consumer market," said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.  Ballmer addressed a group of 80 or so Microsoft-identified "IT Pro community leaders" during a day-long Townhall Event on the Redmond...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:45:14 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dynamics Dreaming: Steve, Satya, and Succession]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Greenbaum/?p=104]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A few nights ago I had the strangest dream. Microsoft had finally decided to go all out and make Dynamics its flagship product &ndash; the horse that pulls the cart, the engine that drives the train &ndash; instead of the other way around. And so in my dream &ndash; I...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:35:44 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ballmer gets intense talking Microsoft strategy]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://news.zdnet.com/2036-2_22-6169020.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[CEO discusses his company's culture at Stanford addressSpeaking at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business on March 15, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer elaborates on what he thinks makes a good leader, and the kinds of employees the software giant wants in its workplace.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:51:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ballmer's take on Google: Milking one good idea]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4671]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Worth watching: Speaking at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that Google is still in an early phase, in which it can milk its "one good idea" effectively. The question is does Google have an encore, another huge and profitable component of its business. Microsoft...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:11:37 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SharePoint: The next big 'operating system' from Microsoft?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=327]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Many industry pundits have speculated as to whether Windows Vista is the last big-bang release of Windows. (The answer, as Microsoft officials have repeatedly stated, is no.)   I think theyre asking the wrong question. Instead, why not ask whether Windows will be the center of Microsofts universe going...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:42:23 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ballmer: Novell deal proves open source needs to 'respect IP rights']]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=265]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The same week that Microsoft issued a press release providing further details about some of the technological advances that will result from the November 2006 technology agreement between Novell and Microsoft, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Wall Street what he really thinks the deal means to Microsoft.  During a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:03:28 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ballmer's list: Microsoft's CEO shares his top nine Microsoft growth picks]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=263]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has come up with a list of the nine "opportunities" where he believes Microsoft can sustain a half billion or more in new margin growth over the next three years.  On February 15, Ballmer shared that list with Wall Street analysts and shareholders who participated...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:34:40 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ballmer to Wall Street: Temper your Windows Vista projections]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=262]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told a group of Wall Street analysts and shareholders that many of their projections for Windows Vista were "overly aggressive."  Ballmer made his remarks during a forecast-update meeting with Wall Street analysts on February 15,  Ballmer wasnt sounding a sales-warning alarm so much as...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:32:28 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[One man can end the Microsoft-Linux feud]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=929]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Bill Gates.And I think he will.I dont think its a coincidence, or a mere marketing choice, that caused Gates to pop up as the public face of the Windows Vista launch last week, after publicly retiring six months earlier. I dont think its coincidence that Gates wife, Melinda, has suddenly...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:28:33 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft: Steve Ballmer sells to retail in NYC]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/micro-markets/?p=869]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve Ballmer is Microsoft&rsquo;s top salesperson. This morning, in New York City, he sold Microsoft Retail Solutions to the retail industry, big time.Ballmer, Microsoft Corp. CEO, addressed the National Retail Federation NRF Annual Convention, delivering the keynote of &ldquo;Retail&rsquo;s Big Show 2007&rdquo; to an audience offering &ldquo;the highest concentration of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:05:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ballmer: Palm and BlackBerry are niche players]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/mobile-gadgeteer/?p=242]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Mike Ricciuti, CNET News.com, had a chance to sit down and chat with Steve Ballmer about Life after Vista and on page 3 of the conversation we find some talk about mobile devices. When asked to talk a bit more about Windows Mobile, Ballmer stated:  When it comes to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:47:17 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What I learned at the Microsoft Vista business launch]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=121]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Were there any surprises left for Microsofts business launch of Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 on November 30? Surprisingly, there were a few. As expected, Microsoft made available to its volume licensees the final Windows Vista and Office 2007 bits, as marked by its "New Day for Business" launch...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:49:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Vendor opacity and open source]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=849]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the great games of IBM, back in the day, was to be opaque. The company kept its strategy to itself, announcing moves without offering real direction, and so an enormous "IBM-ology" industry emerged to explain, speculate, and advise customers. Microsoft adopted this into its DNA quite early. The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:34:56 -0800</pubDate>
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