Tag: Steve Ballmer
For a company as prominent as Microsoft, it’s remarkable that it has only had three CEOs up until now. Interestingly, two of them are at odds over the potential …
Year of the Linux, when? If there’s one thing about this new Microsoft, it’s that the company is open to embracing the competition without giving it a second thought. …
Microsoft sure has come a long way when it comes to commitment to open source software. So much so that it now sees itself as an open source company. …
Of course, he bleeds Microsoft! But apparently Steve Ballmer has a soft corner for AWS, which he has just chosen as a cloud for a new project for the …
lowdown on this, but Microsoft, obviously, does not allow executives to testify without an agreement. The software titan is already in discussion with the IRS for allowing these high …
Announcement of the Week It was coming, it just had to come. And this week Microsoft made it official. Office is now free for users on mobile devices, meaning …
interview that he gave during the WSJD Live event last week, where the former CEO explained that he has no intention of selling his stake in the company. Not …
handed pink slips to another 3,000 workers. The acquisition of Nokia’s devices and services unit resulted in the reorganization process taking more than a year, and the changes are …
Replacement of the Week After months of speculation, we now have an answer to Microsoft’s mobile strategy for the future. The company official announced that the Microsoft Lumia brand …
capacity. He’s now helping the new CEO Satya Nadella in decision making — but that only happened after Ballmer parted away from the software titan. Gradually. Now Ballmer has …
post on The Old New Thing blog explains, it was none other than former CEO Steve Ballmer that wrote the text of this screen in the first version. He …
Goodbye of the Week Many would take this as an upbeat development, but the fact remains that Steve Ballmer is the man that has had a large part in …
said in a note to investors that it is sometimes difficult to implement your own ideas when a former CEO is still on the board: “It marks the final …
separated from the management of Microsoft, though he still has an attachment owing to his status as the largest individual shareholder. Regardless, it was time — he has his …
letter to Nadella: “I had not spent any time really contemplating my post-Microsoft life until my last day with the company. In the six months since leaving, I have …
effort and Bill Gates’ creative work. Ballmer actually tweeted the video of himself taking the challenge. Interesting. His Twitter account had seen little action up until now, and the …
note to investors that what the new Microsoft CEO is doing right now is simply cleaning up the mess that Steve Ballmer left behind after his retirement in February. …
interview with Bloomberg, Jeff Teper, the head of corporate strategy at Microsoft who has been with the company since 1992 explains that Nadella has already won the respect of …
here. Sure, the letter is a fantastic read, for fans of the company, and well, technology overall, but more importantly it provides hints about the cultural shift that will …
Rumor of the Week The Microsoft side of the rumor mill slowed down a tad this last month or so, but things have sprung into action with word that …
report confirms this new milestone, revealing that Gates has once again sold some of the stock he owns. The US Security and Exchange Commission recorded the sale of 4.6 …
Arrival of the Week Who knew developer previews would one day be used by end users in this high a capacity. The software titan made available this flavor of …
report reveals, Twitter users were surprised to find that the former CEO had joined the party. Many followed him, thinking this really was the man. This was the account …
introduced Office for iPad, but also spoke at length about the company’s future strategy in the cloud business. And he seems to have impressed a lot of folks that …
confirmed that the company is taking its 30 percent cut from every Office 365 subscription that is purchased by iPad owners that want to unlock the editing features in …
blog, Ballmer, who is 58 today, said that he was not sure how long he will remain a Microsoft director. And he will figure out his next challenge after …
Hoopla of the Week Users in China, well the bulk of them anyway, have just recently settled on with Windows XP. The only problem is that Microsoft is ready …
report by Bloomberg claims that Ballmer was the main supporter of this takeover, while leaders like Bill Gates and current CEO Satya Nadella were opposed to the deal. Even …
speaking at an Oxford University event, Ballmer has admitted that Microsoft made a ton of mistakes while he was the CEO. For starters, if he was to take charge …