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- Ballmer calls Obama taxes a moving issue
- Ballmer calls Obama taxes a moving issueThe real problem...Is income taxes in general. Where did we get the idea that they are acceptable? The solution is to go to solely consumptive taxation -- thereby eliminating the entire income tax code -- and DO SEVERE CUTS TO SIZE OF...
- Tags: Taxes, Personal finance, Operational accounting, payroll solutions, Outsourcing, Steve Ballmer, Obama tax, Microsoft Corp., income tax, income
- Discussion threads 2009-06-05
- Ballmer calls Obama taxes a moving issue
- Ballmer said that if Congress enacts President Obama's plans to impose higher corporate taxes, a sensible thing for Microsoft to do would be to move jobs offshore. Microsoft CEO Steven Ballmer offered an unwelcome economics lesson to the Obama administration this week: Higher taxes have consequences that Washington...
- Tags: U.S., Steve Ballmer, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, Obama, taxes, Microsoft, Declan McCullagh CBSNews.com
- News items 2009-06-05
- Microsoft's Bing: Powerset's role, market share, brand (and other burning questions)
- Â Microsoft rolled out Bing sort of---it won't be fully deployed until June 3---but questions already abound. Here's a look at the top 10 questions surrounding Bing, Microsoft's so-called "decision engine." (statement, Techmeme, gallery, Mary Jo Foley's take) 1. Will Powerset's technology be the difference...
- Tags: Brand, Search Engine, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Powerset, Microsoft Corp., Bing, Decision Engine, Search, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-28
- Ballmer: It's Bing
- Ballmer: It's Bing40 years and three generations of ........Violence in a Capitalist society; we're all screwed in the USA. That is the Wikipedia view of this economic down turn. open suggestion!RE: Ballmer: It's BingWow, this is very impressive! I like what I see with Bing and will be using...
- Tags: SEARCH, Bing, search engine, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-28
- Ballmer's layoff mail to the troops fails to rule out more cuts
- Ballmer's layoff mail to the troops fails to rule out more cutsWhat a guy!I'm glad I never worked for Ol' Monkey Boy. But I do have friends working for MS in Redmond...hope they come through this OK.I think layoffs are only justified if you're losing money...or in danger of it....
- Tags: Workforce management, Game players, layoff mail, layoff, troop, Apple Inc., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-05
- Ballmer's layoff mail to the troops fails to rule out more cuts
- Here's the full text of the e-mail that CEO Steve Ballmer sent to Microsoft employees notifying them of the second wave of job cuts happening at the company, starting May 5. Ballmer's e-mail does not rule out additional layoffs beyond the 5,000 already announced. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Layoff, Steve Ballmer, E-mail, Workforce Management, Online Communications, Human Resources, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Oracle-Sun: IBM surprised, Ballmer speechless
- Oracle-Sun: IBM surprised, Ballmer speechlessI am sure everyone was surpriseddoes not mean that the impact will be significant, just that people where surprised, nothing more.next clip: Ballmer wetting his pants!Sources told me that after Ballmer got out of shock and his pee drenched pants, he rushed to call Billy Gate$,...
- Tags: Storage, Databases, IBM Corp., Steve Ballmer, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-20
- [April 1]: Ballmer makes it official - M$ re-enters corporate crime market
- [April 1]: Ballmer makes it official - M$ re-enters corporate crime marketBallmer seeks to dethrone Jobs as reigning crime lord ntNTTripeIts hard to believe this article is taking up hard drive space somewhere. Yes, its an April Fools Day joke. But, for the most part its a wast of space...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, corporate crime market, crime market, APril 1, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-01
- Apple's $500 or Microsoft's 81% tax?
- Which do you prefer? Even if it were true, Ballmer's "$500 Apple tax" comment is stupid: Microsoft's profits are way beyond Apple's. And, get this: that $500 - if it was real - is a great investment. Here's why. Margin, margin, who's got the margin? ...
- Tags: Antivirus, Steve Ballmer, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Taxes, Free Trade, Viruses And Worms, Personal Finance, Security, Financial Planning, Finance, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- Microsoft's Apple deja vu all over again
- Am I the only one who see's Redmond's continued rehashing of the PC vs. Mac wars as a sign of weakness? This is especially true of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's recent comments aka slam saying the "tide has really turned back" on Apple, while pointing to the lamest Windows machines...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Mobile, PC, Steve Ballmer, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., PC User, Apple Strategy, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Wireless And Mobility, Software, Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
- TomTom tells Ballmer tear down this wall
- TomTom tells Ballmer tear down this wallwell said!No it's time for OIN members to honor their agreement and counter sue M$ for patent violations.Just say..."I'm a doughnut". That's what the translation will be anyway.Microsoft will find inself increasingly isolated trying to preventcompetition and maintain the proprietary model. Companies all...
- Tags: Construction, TomTom, Steve Ballmer, wall, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-23
- TomTom tells Ballmer tear down this wall
- By joining the Open Invention Network TomTom made its most important statement yet that it won't get pushed around in its patent litigation with Microsoft. OIN members include important players like IBM, Philips and Sony. On the other hand they also include Novell, whose original patent cross-license...
- Tags: TomTom, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Wall, Linux, Construction, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- Ballmer: Apple logo costs $500
- Ballmer: Apple logo costs $500Here's a caption...."He's right".Will that do?RE: Ballmer: Apple logo costs $500I'd do anything for MS, but I won't do that.hey its ballmer pleaseDont give any attention to monkey boy ....And just in case ok apple cost 500$ what about MS logo well .... than again its...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Caption, Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2009-03-20
- Ballmer: Apple logo costs $500
- eWeek's Joe Wilcox enlightens us on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's latest comments on Apple from McGraw-Hill's 2009 Media Summit in New York. "The damned thing is only about this big!" Apple gained about one point, but now I think the tide has really turned back the...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Apple Inc., Productivity, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-03-20
- Ballmer: Only one meeting so far with Yahoo's Bartz
- Ballmer: Only one meeting so far with Yahoo's BartzIBM and OSS companies should buy yahoosince IBM has the money, they better snap yahoo from M$ claws.It's AT&T Yahoo.If it's Yahoo it's AT&T.Yahoo threatened with takeovers for many years now has lost their browser download.DON'T LOOSE ANYTHING!Whoever is doing this is...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Bartz, Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2009-03-19
- Ballmer: Only one meeting so far with Yahoo's Bartz
- Although you'd never know it from most of the headlines today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said he has had only one meeting so far with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz since she became CEO in January. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., CEO, Financial Accounting, Finance, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- Kumo, Yah: Microsoft Planning a 'Set Change' in Search
- Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer acknowledged Thursday that Microsoft was working on a new version of its search service. But he did not claim this latest attempt to take queries away from Google is a game-changer, but more of a “set change†in what is currently dubbed its LiveSearch service....
- Tags: Google Inc., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Search, Channel Management, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Sales, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- Microsoftââ¬â¢s Ballmer on buying the New York Times: "No. Not 'no comment.' No."
- [caption id="attachment_14943" align="alignnone" width="475" caption="Source: Pentagram"][/caption] The chief executive of the world’s largest personal computer software firm and sixth most visited site on the Web said he had no interest in acquiring The New York Times or other leading print brands, as a way of distinguishing either...
- Tags: Search Business, Steve Ballmer, New York Times Co., Microsoft Corp., Web Portal, Portals, Web Technology, Search, Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- Scoreboard: The highest and lowest rated leaders in tech
- Scoreboard: The highest and lowest rated leaders in techBalmer not surprisingThe guy's an idiot.He looks like your "creepy Uncle"When he opens his mouth you know he's an idiot - just about everything he's predicted has turned out wrong.He has no vision at all and little tact.In short, Ballmer has no...
- Tags: Leadership, Investment, Steve Ballmer, Scoreboard, EMC Corp., leader
- Discussion threads 2009-03-09
- Scoreboard: The highest and lowest rated leaders in tech
- When I looked up technology executives on Glassdoor.com to see how they were rated by their employees, I was surprised at how they naturally divided themselves into two groups. I picked 14 leaders and they ended up dividing evenly between seven rated 62% or higher and seven rated 48% or...
- Tags: Employee, Steve Ballmer, Leader, Approval, Glassdoor, Leadership, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2009-03-09

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