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Ballmer says Windows 7 sales are double that of its predecessors
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 built.” Well, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: “Paying [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft lays off 5,000 workers
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft will be laying off as many as 5,000 employees in effort to save money in this tough economic climate. Notably, this is the first time that Microsoft has resorted to company wide firings. The reductions, about 5 percent of the workforce, will take place in almost all areas and help [...]
Continue reading...Dan Lyons gets paid to write for Newsweek?! Pt. III
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Newsweek columnist Dan Lyons is up to his old tricks again with a new article about Apple that is more about tabloid-esque personal attacks against Steve Jobs than actual substantive reporting. I’m not a tech-industry insider, so I can’t shed any light on why Dan Lyons seems to have a personal vendetta against Steve Jobs, [...]
Continue reading...Survey: Steve Jobs has second highest approval rating for CEO’s
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Glassdoor.com is a website that lets employees anonymously complain about or lavish praise upon their company and C.E.O, and in its most recent survey for 2008, the site found that Steve Jobs had a 90% approval rating as the C.E.O of Apple, coming in second place behind Arthur D. Levinson, the C.E.O of a biotech [...]
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
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