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Microsoft's future in the post-Bill Gates era
News She added there may well be a profound change in the company's priorities with Steve Ballmer in charge, including the kinds of employees it promotes and hires. Foley said: "I foresee sales-focused guys getting more power at Microsoft - 'Steve's... [24 Jun 2008]
Ballmer on Yahoo!: Microsoft prepared to walk away
News if the two sides can't agree on a price, chief executive Steve Ballmer said on Wednesday. Speaking at a technology conference near Milan, Ballmer said Yahoo! Ballmer said: "We're prepared to move forward without a merger with Yahoo! [24 Apr 2008]
Yahoo! reports positive profits - Microsoft unconcerned
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer had signalled before the report's release that nothing Yahoo! Ballmer said yesterday during a visit to Morocco, in comments first reported by Reuters: "I wish Yahoo! [23 Apr 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 Steve Jobs Apple It is our view that Microsoft has significant potential upside given the continued solid growth in our core businesses, the... [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]
Ballmer advisor out of Microsoft
News Martin Taylor, a key adviser to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, has left the software maker. Before he led the 'Get the Facts' campaign, Taylor served as director of business strategy, working directly for Ballmer on various strategic projects and on... [21 Jun 2006]
Gates: 'We'll keep Google honest'
News The company also offered few specifics on just what it plans to buy with all of those new investment dollars, though CEO Steve Ballmer may address those issues when he speaks to the crowd on Thursday. [04 May 2006]
Election '05: Digital divide must be addressed
Comment The availability of 1GB domestic connections in Hong Kong from next month, the loss of Rover and Steve Ballmer's glowing praise this week of Dubai as a new "hub" society should serve as wake-up calls to our political leaders that we can't afford... [26 Apr 2005]
Microsoft strengthens Indian ties
News The two deals were announced during Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's three-day visit to India earlier in the week. In the second deal India's number two IT company Wipro announced some key outcomes of its existing five-year partnership with Microsoft... [19 Nov 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 10.09.04
Round-Up No sooner had the balloon-festooned door at 1 Infinite Loop opened to reveal Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer standing there politely announcing they too had joined the online music party than it was slammed in their face by the sneering, bigger boys. [10 Sep 2004]
$2bn deal ends "Ballmer and Butt-head" jibes
News Ballmer and Butt-Head.on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Gates) Compiled from CNET News.com archives, BusinessWeek and the books "Bad Boy Ballmer" and "High Noon. Listen, I have never turned down a meeting with Gates or Ballmer.On many occasions, I... [05 Apr 2004]
IBM and Unix break HP's Windows speed record
News I saw (Microsoft chief executive) Steve Ballmer stand in front of a German audience and crow that they had TPC-C bragging rights. Big Blue has long used Oracle's database software for its TPC-C testing, but in a significant strategic shift, the... [12 May 2003]
AltaVista... Google... Microsoft? Where does the future of web search lie?
News The report asserts that Microsoft plans to triple its search staffing to 200 employees and that CEO Steve Ballmer discussed search plans at a 'town hall' meeting last week. The SoundView report's findings are further evidence of Microsoft's plans... [03 Apr 2003]
Analysts: Microsoft will have to embrace Linux
News In September, CEO Steve Ballmer described Linux as "a serious competitor. Microsoft will not be engineering server software expressly for Linux, and continues to make its strategic bets on the Windows platform," Peter Houston, senior director of... [11 Dec 2002]
India to get $400m Microsoft investment
News Gates' visit to the Asian IT hotbed could be an attempt to stop the Linux "cancer", to use the words of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, from gaining momentum in the populous country. Today, India is of strategic importance to our business and will... [12 Nov 2002]
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