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- Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity
- Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spending
- Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spendingBallmer Justifies Bottomless PitIt's called his STOMACH.Where is the return on these investments?They are no closer to competing with Google than before Ballmer started this spending spree. When people think "search" they think Google. It's that simple. No one thinks Yahoo or...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, 3M Co.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spending
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer played online-services pitch man during his opening keynote at Microsoft's annual Financial Analyst Meeting FAM, explaining why Microsoft believes it must continue to invest heavily in search and advertising to remain competitive in the coming years. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Advertisement, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Kevin Johnson, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC, phone space
- Microsoft has long prided itself on its open partner ecosystem and cited it as a key differentiator from Apple, which provides all of the hardware and software for its products. But that equation may be set to change, based on a somewhat cryptic comment from CEO Steve Ballmer. by...
- Tags: Phone, PC, Steve Ballmer, OEM, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Telecom & Utilities, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Ballmer does Windows; Johnson joins Juniper
- Ballmer does Windows; Johnson joins JuniperAlso.....Is he really the "face" you want for Vista? Let's be honest here Balmer is not loaded with charisma or well anything that makes one want to buy from him. Stay away from him maybe but buy? heh heh heh Just saying.....Pagan...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows, Vista! Hurrah, product people, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Juniper Networks Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Ballmer does Windows; Johnson joins Juniper
- Update: Microsoft had its annual management shakeup--these things tend to happen at the end of the fiscal year--and Kevin Johnson is leaving as head of the company's platform and services division. As a result, Johnson's unit is split into two--Windows and online services--and CEO Steve Ballmer becomes the primary advocate...
- Tags: Juniper Networks Inc., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Yahoo: Microhoo, Icahn drama cost us $22 million; Economy soft
- Yahoo: Microhoo, Icahn drama cost us $22 million; Economy softYahoo and M$hostile takeovers cost money. I like the way Yahoo told Microsoft to shove off. Too bad nobody else wants to. M$ did it twice, Ballmer scwed up, and the second try was by another billionaire who has so much...
- Tags: Professional development, Yahoo! Inc., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- We don't want you to talk, Mr. Ballmer
- We don't want you to talk, Mr. BallmerThe ghost of Mr. Ballmerwill be forced to bear the clippy's that he has forged in this life.Oh, the eternal wailing.Well, hey, it IS fun to watch them squirm. But, it probably DOES help themshort term at least to create FUD around open...
- Tags: open source, MSFT, Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-12
- We don't want you to talk, Mr. Ballmer
- We are past the point with Microsoft where open source needs to fear the Giant of Redmond. Despite Mr. Ballmer's bluster, the company lacks the legal weaponry to destroy open source, with patents or anything else. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-12
- Next Microsoft enterprise instant messaging/VOIP server: Think 2009
- During his July 9 keynote at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston, CEO Steve Ballmer shed a bit of light on what's in the Office Communications Server pipeline. Ballmer told attendees that Microsoft is readying a new release of OCS that will hit "later this year." by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: VoIP, Steve Ballmer, Communications Server, Server, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office Communications Server, Office Communicator, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Icahn: Ballmer would do a deal if Yahoo's board goes; Microsoft confirms
- Icahn: Ballmer would do a deal if Yahoo's board goes; Microsoft confirmsThe only way Icahn could "save" GM would be to buy up shares cheap, andthen sell them to Toyota for double the money.... matchnow which one is the Match and who is the striker They are both very incendiary...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Micro$oft, board, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Confirms, Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Icahn, Ballmer pair up, talk Microhoo; Push to boot Yang and Yahoo's board
- Updated: Activist investor Carl Icahn and Microsoft are now in cahoots to toss Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and the company's board of directors. Icahn says in a letter that he has been chatting up Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer along with other key executives about how the two...
- Tags: Transaction, Steve Ballmer, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Icahn, Steve, Search, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Microsoft's never-ending pursuit of Yahoo: More awkward than an 8th grade dance
- Microsoft still has the hots for Yahoo and now wants to enlist partners to win the target's search business. Yes, folks the Microhoo saga continues and boy are these two crazy kids awkward. According to The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is still trying to airlift the search...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Search, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Daily Debrief 2nd Edition: Say goodbye to Windows XP
- As of July 1, Microsoft will stop broad distribution of Windows XP. On the second edition of the Daily Debrief, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Ina Fried break down the rationale behind the decision and suggest tips for consumers who are reluctant to switch over to Vista.
- Tags: Edition, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, News, microsoft, windows XP, bill gates, steve ballmer, vista
- Videos 2008-07-01
- Gates' tearful good-bye
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates says farewell to company employees at a town hall meeting Friday in Redmond, Wash. Gates is stepping down from full-time work to focus on his philanthropic efforts.
- Tags: News, bill gates, steve ballmer, microsoft, windows, seattle, redmond
- Videos 2008-06-27
- Gallery: Bill Gates says good bye
- In his last full day on the job at Microsoft, Bill Gates gives a teary farewell to the staff. by Andy Smith
- Tags: Bill Gates, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Andy Smith, Microsoft, Steve Ballmer
- Image galleries 2008-06-27
- Bill Gates bids a teary farewell to Microsoft
- Bill Gates said a teary goodbye on Friday to Microsoft, the software maker he built into the world's most valuable technology company. Redmond, Washington--Bill Gates said a teary goodbye on Friday to Microsoft, the software maker he built into the world's most valuable technology company based on the ambitious...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Management, Reuters, Microsoft
- News items 2008-06-27
- Daily Debrief: Yahoo turns the page
- News.com's Charles Cooper and Dan Farber discuss the aftermath of the company's long-awaited reorganization news.
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Page, News, charles cooper, dan farber, yahoo, jerry yang, susan decker, microsoft, bill gates, steve ballmer
- Videos 2008-06-27
- Bill Gates on the origin of PC clones
- At the 20th anniversary of the PC event in 2001, Gates and Compaq founder Rod Canion reflected on the events that created the modern PC business.
- Tags: PC, Desktops, Hardware, News, bill gates, microsoft, steve ballmer, george clooney, bono, u2, CES 2008, seattle
- Videos 2008-06-27
- Gates and control-alt-delete
- At a 2001 event celebrating the PC's 20th anniversary, IBM engineer Dave Bradley talks about how the control-alt-delete keystroke came to be, quipping that, though he invented it, Bill Gates made it famous.
- Tags: Event, Desktops, Hardware, News, microsoft, bill gates, steve ballmer, windos, pc, ibm, control, alt, delete, ina fried
- Videos 2008-06-27
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