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The Weekly Round-Up: 27.06.08
Round-Up Gates was the techie, Ballmer is a sales guy, so the cultural make-up of the management of the vast company could become more sales-driven rather than tech-focused - and we can all agree that what the industry needs more than anything right now is... [27 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.05.08
Round-Up According to an open letter from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to Yahoo! deal fell through, Ballmer and co started sniffing around Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to see if he was interested in selling the $15bn-rated social networking site. [09 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.03.08
Round-Up The final word on the debacle comes from CEO Steve Ballmer who was also copied in on the email trail. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer hasn't. bid was tabled by Ballmer and his shrieking, winged minions. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer - him... [07 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.02.08
Round-Up As the news sent shockwaves across the globe, the Round-Up was delighted to note that at a press conference announcing the seismic shift, CEO Steve Ballmer and his co-joined executives decided they would eschew ties to adopt the relaxed, anti... [29 Feb 2008]
Editor's Blog: Lords above!
Comment And check out Microsoft's Steve Ballmer talking about open source. I wish them luck and hope they get a better response this time round. It's been another week where silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign has loomed large, with two pieces of news... [27 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.02.08
Round-Up Ballmer: "But most of all we're putting the screws on Google. Ballmer: "Alright. The office of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Ballmer: "We're screwing our detractors. Ballmer: "You bet it is, Atkins. Ballmer: "We rock. [08 Feb 2008]
Microsoft/Yahoo! - should Google be afraid of the big bad bid?
News Steve Ballmer's $44.6bn letter to Yahoo! Below is an unedited copy of the proposal letter sent by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to Yahoo! Here's a round up of all the latest silicon.com coverage concerning the $44.6bn bid… [06 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.01.08
Round-Up 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. One thing's for sure: at least Ballmer's going to be a whole lot more entertaining when he takes the stage in 2009. [11 Jan 2008]
The End of Year Weekly Round-Up: 21.12.07
Round-Up Ballmer chokes and sprays eggnog all over the 'fire'. 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 Christmas. [21 Dec 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.10.07
Round-Up The Round-Up would be intrigued to know how much the company would have invested had Ballmer considered the site, which now has more than 49 million users, a serious business opportunity. Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer defines a fad as a $240m... [26 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]
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. If you aren't fans of the company then the Round-Up offers its apologies for that but its brief is to ride the... [19 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.09.07
Round-Up Steve Ballmer is a troubled man. The irate Ballmer bellows for his assistant, who shuffles into the room apprehensively. Hello, Steve Ballmer. Check out the Weekly Round-Up podcast which tackles iPhones, movie robots the future of the phone box. [14 Sep 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.09.07
Round-Up But this latest statement seems to indicate the Zune phone is firmly wedged in Ballmer's product pipeline. The messages from Redmond about the Zune phone have been mixed, with the device's marketing division bigging up the idea from day one and CEO... [07 Sep 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.02.07
Round-Up The Round-Up starts each column with the same three virtues in mind but by the end of the first bit it's inevitably all gone a bit titsup.com and descended into childish name-calling and references to Steve Ballmer's simian roots. [09 Feb 2007]
