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Ballmer: Give streaming media a chance
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer Tuesday acknowledged serious shortcomings in current audio and video streaming technology but promised better things to come. Among other things, Ballmer unveiled Microsoft's updated Windows Media technology...
[December 13, 2000, 11:10]
Ballmer wants $100 PCs to combat piracy
News What's one of Steve Ballmer's biggest headaches? Ballmer also defended a comment made earlier this year by Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman, who said security will not be an issue in three years. Until government and situational factors reduce...
[October 21, 2004, 12:05]
Ballmer will let Yahoo brand live
Blog Well Redmond is obviously not going to complain if that happens and Steve Ballmer has already started openly discussing what will happen to the Yahoo brand. The good news, sort of, for Yahoo is that Ballmer would let the company keeps its name for...
[February 8, 2008, 9:01]
Ballmer cites 'facts' in Microsoft's battle against Linux
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has used the software giant's latest executive email to stoke up Microsoft's fight against the rise of Linux. In it, Ballmer repeated the key themes of Microsoft's Get The Facts campaign.
[October 27, 2004, 17:20]
Ballmer: IT industry has great future
News Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer addressed nearly 11,000 technology professionals on Monday at the company's TechEd customer conference with a pitch that was part call to action, part career affirmation for IT workers.
[June 7, 2005, 10:35]
Ballmer's email to staff on latest layoffs
Blog After Microsoft announced it would lay off another 3,000 people as part of expected job cuts, CEO Steve Ballmer sent an email to the rank and file. From: Steve Ballmer Here is that email, courtesy of Ina Fried at ZDNet UK's sister site CNET News.com:
[May 5, 2009, 17:53]
Ballmer, Ellison: Can we work it out?
News It's not every day that Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer and Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison sit down and chat about interoperability of their respective product lines. In fact, no one at Microsoft seems to be able to recall if Ballmer...
[December 20, 2000, 8:36]
Ballmer 'vowed to kill Google'
Talkback Is Ballmer the guy who throws chairs, if so he is behaving just like my four year old Grand-baby, who throws his toys. He (Ballmer) is a badly behaved little boy who cannot stand the heat and should get the **** out of the kitchen, in a four year...
[September 30, 2005, 10:25]
Ballmer's bullish outlook
News For more than 20 years, Steve Ballmer has been Microsoft's chief salesman, promoting his company's products with a mixture of over-the-top enthusiasm, street-fighter brashness and market savvy. Ballmer: I think it's still around the Internet and...
[June 8, 2005, 13:10]
Ballmer: Don't stifle innovation
Talkback What part of "abusive monopolistic power" does Ballmer et al not understand? What part of not hindering other companies right to innovate does Ballmer et al not understand? What part of corporate intimidation, discriminatory pricing and fixing...
[March 26, 2004, 18:03]
Ballmer unpacks new developer tools
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer announced a few new developer tools but otherwise played a greatest-hits set before an audience of about 10,000 information technology professionals at the TechEd conference on Monday.
[May 25, 2004, 9:15]
Ballmer: Don't stifle innovation
Talkback Ballmer is being a tad circumspect talking about Microsoft innovation. That's what the ruling is trying to do, Mr Ballmer. I'm sure we would all love Microsoft to innovate rather than buy, rebadge and bundle for free in Windows, as in DOS, Network...
[March 26, 2004, 15:00]
Ballmer 'not interested' in fresh Yahoo bid
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer on Friday said that Microsoft was "not interested" in making a new offer for internet company Yahoo, despite Yahoo's share price currently sitting at less than half what Microsoft initially offered.
[November 7, 2008, 7:10]
Ballmer dismisses Google Android threat
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer on Thursday dismissed Google's Android operating system, saying he believes it to be financially unsound. Speaking at Australian telecoms company Telstra's annual investment day, Ballmer said it was Google's...
[November 6, 2008, 7:26]
Ballmer 'vowed to kill Google'
Talkback A word of advice to bully boy Ballmer "SHUT YOUR FREAKIN MOUTH " you aint worth the price of a piece of USED toilet paper ( and for those out there that lack the brain to work this one out then use a piece of toilet paper for it's designed use...
[September 5, 2005, 21:42]
Ballmer confident, but admits failings
News Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has confessed the software giant's .NET interoperability efforts with IBM and Sun have slowed, says he's accepted SQL Server's shortcomings, and vowed to keep fighting search giant Google.
[June 28, 2005, 9:40]
Ballmer 'vowed to kill Google'
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer vowed to "kill" Google in an expletive-laced, chair-throwing tirade when a senior engineer told him he was leaving the company to go work for Google, the engineer claimed in court documents made public on...
[September 5, 2005, 9:05]
Ballmer: 'I don't throw chairs'
News Steve Ballmer wants you to know one thing: He never throws chairs. Microsoft is "at the beginning of 12 months of the greatest innovation pipeline we have ever had," Ballmer said. Ballmer was responding to a comment regarding well-publicised...
[October 20, 2005, 9:10]
Ballmer: 'I love your daughter'
Blog Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer has pledged to hire a 13-year-old cheerleader to work for Microsoft -- in nine years time. At which point Ballmer interjected: "I love your daughter! Ballmer said: "I know".
[October 10, 2007, 21:28]
Ballmer to meet EC
News Microsoft's chief executive, Steve Ballmer, is scheduled to meet with the antitrust head of the European Commission on Wednesday, according to a commission representative. Ballmer, who will be in Europe on business, requested the meeting with...
[September 30, 2005, 10:15]
