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Can Microsoft/Yahoo! deal take on Google?
News rebuffed an initial approach by Microsoft last February - as revealed in Steve Ballmer's bid letter - but analyst TBR predicted Yahoo! would help both companies fight Google in the online advertising and services market but it also faces some major... [01 Feb 2008]
Steve Ballmer's $44.6bn letter to Yahoo!
News Below is an unedited copy of the proposal letter sent by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to Yahoo! Ballmer valuing the company 62 per cent higher than its latest stock value. According to Microsoft, the bid is intended to better position the two... [01 Feb 2008]
Microsoft bids $44.6bn for Yahoo!
News Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said a tie-up will allow the two to offer an "increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers" and allow them to be "better positioned to compete in the online market". [01 Feb 2008]
CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment Keynote With Steve Ballmer On-Demand
White Paper Mobile computing and communications enable to be more productive, more connected, and more entertained on the go. The presenter of this webcast talks about the increasingly important role of mobile devices in Microsoft's software plus services... [15 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.01.08
Round-Up One thing's for sure: at least Ballmer's going to be a whole lot more entertaining when he takes the stage in 2009. He's so focused," opines long-time friend and CEO Steve Ballmer, as Bill drives to work with his briefcase on the roof of his Lexus. [11 Jan 2008]
The End of Year Weekly Round-Up: 21.12.07
Round-Up Ballmer chokes and sprays eggnog all over the 'fire'. An animated Ballmer points at Atkins’ trousers. Bathed in its glow, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and his PA, Atkins, are drinking eggnog - whatever eggnog is, Americans always seem to drink it at... [21 Dec 2007]
Vista: Users do want it, apparently...
News But Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, said while there may be a few PCs still on the market that have XP, it's Vista consumers are buying. Ballmer said: "Yes, there's one or two models you can find someplace in the world of PCs that don't run Windows... [30 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.10.07
Round-Up The announcement follows just a few weeks after Ballmer warned Facebook and other youth-oriented social networking services could be seen as a "fad". Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer defines a fad as a $240m investment opportunity. [26 Oct 2007]
Dear silicon.com... work and play, mobiles on planes, data leaks...
Comment I was recently interested to read about Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's 'vision' for the future of services, but where was the vision? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. [25 Oct 2007]
Microsoft cuts itself a slice of Facebook pie
News It also flies in the face of recent comments made by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who brushed off Facebook and other youth-friendly social networking sites as a "fad". Microsoft will take a $240m equity stake in Facebook during its next round of... [25 Oct 2007]
Mobile phones to kill off the desktop PC?
News A growing number of people have multiple mobile phones but that's actually a failure, not a success of the industry, according to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Speaking during a keynote speech at the CTIA Fall 2007 trade show in San Francisco... [24 Oct 2007]
Microsoft rolls over for EU antitrust ruling
News Kroes said in a speech in Brussels she has been in almost daily contact with Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer over the past two or three weeks, and that Microsoft has now agreed to make workgroup server interoperability information... [23 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 19.10.07
Round-Up However, a fascinating development this year is that neither of Microsoft's titans of tech, Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer, made the top 50. When a 23-year-old college drop-out with a novelty website is voted the most influential person in technology... [19 Oct 2007]
Gates: 'My work here is not yet done'
News Some of the natural interface stuff, I think he and Steve [Ballmer] will ask me to sort of keep the energy and vision alive there. While chairman Bill Gates is preparing to shift to part-time work at Microsoft next year, he's still a fiery advocate... [19 Oct 2007]
Video: Microsoft - "Our strategy is evolving"
Video At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks to Gartner research analysts about filling the gap and sharing the leadership role with top executives after chairman Bill Gates transitions away from his day... [12 Oct 2007]
