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Microsoft employees leave during Steve Ballmer speech
Well this certainly doesn’t sound too promising for the morale of the troops in Redmond. During Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s speech to Microsoft employees at the company’s annual retreat, Microsoft employees reportedly began leaving in droves, mid-speech no less.
Continue reading...Microsoft: Protecting the Windows monopoly at all costs
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
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Microsoft’s tablet strategy remains in shambles. The HP Slate was essentially a bust on arrival, only to be followed up by the news that HP was abandoning Microsoft altogether in light of its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm and its heralded WebOS. So what’s Microsoft to do? It’s not working on an iOS style version [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft debates overzealous retail expansion; Ballmer convinced “to hold back”
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
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One of the integral components of Apple’s resurgence under Steve Jobs has been the company’s retail strategy. Though the ubiquity of Apple retail stores may make it easy to forget, it really wasn’t all that long ago that Apple products were hard to find, and often displayed haphazardly in stores like CompUSA and Office Depot where store [...]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt garner high CEO approval ratings, Steve Ballmer and Carol Bartz not so much
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
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An anonymous survey taken by Glassdoor.com recently compared CEO approval ratings in 2011 against approval ratings from 2010.
Continue reading...Ballmer sells $2 billion worth of MSFT stock
Saturday, November 13, 2010
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Don Dodge writes via Reuters: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is selling 75 million shares of his Microsoft holdings netting $2 Billion. By selling the stock before the end of the year Ballmer saves $100 million in capital gains taxes. Capital gains tax rates are expected to rise to 20% next year from the current 15%. After [...]
Continue reading...Is Steve Ballmer delusional?
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may not be the best in the biz, but the more we see of him, we kinda like the guy. That said, his take on Apple and the tech industry is often pretty skewed, if not downright delusional. To wit, here’s Ballmer talking about Windows Phone 7 and the value people [...]
Continue reading...Steve Ballmer envisions Microsoft collecting royalties on every Android device sold
Monday, October 4, 2010
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Late last week, Microsoft sued Motorola alleging that it’s lineup of Droid smartphones, which make use of Google’s Android OS, infringe on a number of Microsoft’s patents pertaining to synchronization of data such as email and contacts, along with patents which cover how applications are notified of changes in signal strength and battery power. Microsoft, [...]
Continue reading...Ballmer on Apple and the iPad: “They’ve sold more than I’d like them to sell”
Friday, July 30, 2010
Say what you will about Ballmer, but one thing he isn’t is boring. During Microsoft’s annual meeting with financial analysts yesterday, Ballmer took some time to address Microsoft’s position regarding tablets while touching upon Apple’s sudden and successful entry into the market. “Apple has done an interesting job,” Ballmer said. “They’ve sold more than I’d like [...]
Continue reading...If Ballmer were to show up at WWDC [Spoof Video]
Thursday, June 3, 2010
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It didn’t take long for Microsoft to dispell a wacky rumor that Steve Ballmer was going to give a short presentation at next week’s WWDC. But if Ballmer did show up, it might look a little something like this.
Continue reading...As Apple’s market cap passes Microsoft’s, CEO Steve Ballmer isn’t concerned
Monday, May 31, 2010
Is Microsoft’s Office and Windows empire crumbling before our very eyes? Not really, but there’s no denying that Microsoft continues to find itself flatfooted and unable to deliver anything of interest in the high-tech mobile market. So while the folks at Redmond continue to rake in cash hand over fist, the bulk of their profits [...]
Continue reading...Apple’s market cap surpasses Microsoft, Apple now only trails Exxon Mobil
Friday, May 28, 2010
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Earlier this week, Apple’s market cap surpassed Microsoft’s, making it the second largest corporation in the US behind Exxon. 9 to 5 Mac came up with the snazzy chart below which measures Apple and Microsoft’s stock performance under a progression of CEOs. As you can tell, Microsoft started taking a dive almost right when Steve [...]
Continue reading...So much for Ballmer at WWDC
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Microsoft’s official Twitter feed reads: Steve Ballmer not speaking at Apple Dev Conf. Nor appearing on Dancing with the Stars. Nor riding in the Belmont. Just FYI. As if Jobs would ever share the stage with Ballmer at an Apple event. I think you can officially classify “analyst” Trip Chowdhry as a moron. And with [...]
Continue reading...Tales of the Absurd? Analyst claims Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to present at WWDC
Thursday, May 27, 2010
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Barron’s reports: Trip Chowdhry, an analyst with tiny Global Equities Research, contends that 7 minutes of the June 7 keynote by Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been blocked off for a presentation by Microsoft to talk about Visual Studio 2010, the company’s suite of development tools. Chowdhry says the new version of VS will allow developers to write native [...]
Continue reading...Steve Ballmer concedes that Windows Vista wasn’t “executed well”
Monday, May 24, 2010
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Delivering the keynote at Microsoft’s annual CEO Summit last week, Microsoft head honcho Steve Ballmer discussed the difficulties associated with consistent innovation. Using Windows Vista as an example, Ballmer quipped: The saga of our Windows product is probably one of the better chronicles, and I’m sure many people went through a cycle either at home [...]
Continue reading...Steve Ballmer signs a MacBook Pro [Video]
Friday, January 22, 2010
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 [...]
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
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