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Steve Ballmer signs a MacBook Pro [Video]
Check out this video of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer autographing a MacBook Pro at Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, Tenessee. Say what you will about Ballmer (he’s crazy, a bad CEO), but he seems to have a good sense of humor about things. Ballmer comically signed the MacBook Pro with a note stating, “Need a [...]
Continue reading...Steve Ballmer legally changes his name to “Steve Jobs”
Friday, December 4, 2009
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer shocked employees earlier this week when he officially changed his name from Steve Ballmer to Steve Jobs in the hopes that such a move would boost company morale, and subsequently help Microsoft reclaim much of the luster its lost to Apple ever since it first introduced the iPod. But the decision to [...]
Continue reading...Ballmer says Windows 7 sales are double that of its predecessors
Thursday, November 19, 2009
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At a Microsoft shareholder meeting earlier today, Microsoft CEO said that copies of Windows 7 are flying off the shelves. “We’ve already sold twice as many units as any OS in a comparable time frame,” Ballmer said. “Windows 7 is simply the best PC operating system that we or anyone else has ever [...]
Continue reading...Ballmer: “The Internet is not designed for the iPhone”
Thursday, October 22, 2009
In a recent AP articleabout today’s release of Windows 7, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had an interesting answer in response to a question about whether or not smartphones “could unseat PC’s as the technology of choice for on-the-go consumers. Let’s face it, the Internet was designed for the PC. The Internet is not designed for the [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft and Steve Ballmer still focused on volume sales for smartphones
Friday, September 25, 2009
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently sat down with TechCrunch to discuss all things search, twitter, and smartphones. Particularly interesting were Ballmer’s statements on the smartphone market and whether or not Microsoft would ever manufacture a Microsoft phone. Let’s just break hardware devices into 2 broad categories, really high volume and more niche. And I’ll call anything [...]
Continue reading...Ballmer on poor Windows Mobile execution: “This will not happen again”
Friday, September 25, 2009
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At the Microsoft hosted Venture Capital Summit yesterday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discussed Windows Mobile 7, and opined on the fact that it still hasn’t been released. Acknowledging that they’ve screwed up, Ballmer noted that the entire Windows Mobile 7 team has been revamped. “We’ve pumped in some new talent”, Ballmer was quoted as saying, [...]
Continue reading...Why Microsoft and Steve Ballmer just don’t get it
Friday, July 31, 2009
At a Microsoft Financial Analyst meeting yesterday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer demonstrated, yet again, that he still doesn’t get, or perhaps is unwilling to admit, why people are ditching PC’s and flocking to the Mac in droves. While looking out into a sea of reporters and analysts, Ballmer noticed the number of computers sporting an illuminating [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft eliminates nearly 3,000 positions
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Techflash reports: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer this morning informed employees that the company will be cutting more jobs — going forward with the second phase of its previously announced plan to eliminate up to 5,000 positions by June 2010. The company isn’t giving a specific number, but Ballmer’s memo says the latest move means Microsoft is [...]
Continue reading...Steve Ballmer on touchscreens, and why Windows Mobile is in trouble
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Check out this a quote from Steve Ballmer as he discusses touchscreens and the lack of multi-touch in Windows Mobile: Windows Mobile 6.5 has touch on it. The way Apple does touch drives cost. [The] way they do it on the iPhone is not an inexpensive component. We’ll do it in a way that you can [...]
Continue reading...Steve Ballmer and Family are Apple Free [Video]
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Check out this video clip of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discussing Apple at the McGraw-Hill Media Conference. As can be expected, he says that neither he, his wife, nor his children own any Apple products. But what I find more interesting are Ballmer’s thoughts on the economy and its effect on Apple. He states: [...]
Continue reading...Windows Mobile still in a world of trouble
Friday, March 6, 2009
Microsoft is not sittin’ pretty these days. Its Windows Mobile platform continues to lose market share, and on top of that, it doesn’t appear that it’ll have a worthy competitor in the Mobile OS space until 2010. At Microsoft’s CIO summit this week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer fielded a question about what steps Microsoft is [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft unveils update to Windows Mobile, introduces app store
Monday, February 16, 2009
On the first day of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft unveiled an upgrade to Windows Mobile and announced plans to introduce an Apple like app store for Windows Mobile users. The upgrade will be released as Windows Mobile 6.5, and will sport a completely new interface and enhanced features such as a more complete [...]
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Friday, January 22, 2010
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