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Ballmer bets big on Microsoft's mobile future
News At the CTIA conference in San Francisco, Ballmer talked about some of Microsoft's plans, what he likes about the iPhone, and why he thinks Vista is already a success, no matter what you might have heard.
[November 1, 2007, 11:08]
Ballmer's bullish outlook
News This morning, you talked about IT as a good profession and talked about industry enthusiasm returning to IT. 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...
[June 8, 2005, 13:10]
The Windows Live era dawns
News When Microsoft first talked about Windows Live in November, most of the products on the table were existing MSN services that had been rebranded. Microsoft has even talked about using advertising as a way to pay for traditional desktop software...
[March 14, 2006, 13:55]
Microsoft releases Windows 7 beta
News Prior to Ballmer's Wednesday announcement, ZDNet UK talked to Microsoft's UK Windows chief, John Curran, in London. Windows 7 is going into public beta, Microsoft head Steve Ballmer announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas late on...
[January 8, 2009, 1:30]
Microsoft: There's life in our Live strategy
News While much of the attention around Microsoft's services push has focused on consumer web services and the battle with Google, both Ballmer and chairman Bill Gates have talked about the need for corporate services, though both have been short on...
[February 23, 2007, 9:00]
Windows Live finds its feet
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer talked earlier this year about being ready to have a conversation later this year with developers about some of those things. In an interview, Jones talked about how things are going with the effort.
[November 7, 2007, 16:31]
Microsoft's culture under siege - Part 2
News That may be what we've got, but it doesn't work very well if we're going to achieve any of the kinds of goals we've talked about. Under Ballmer, who has yet to pass the one-year mark in his presidency, Microsoft is likely to become a lot more...
[March 22, 1999, 15:04]
Steering Microsoft clear of hackers
News When Steve Ballmer gave his presentation at the Churchill Club a few of weeks ago, he talked about "shield technology. He's not a household name, but Bob Muglia is part of a small constellation of executives that Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have...
[October 14, 2003, 11:25]
The hard lessons of Vista
News In that interview, the Microsoft chief executive described the opportunities that IBM's slowed pace created for Microsoft when the PC came around, and talked about Microsoft's need to avoid that fate.
[March 23, 2006, 13:10]
Microsoft eyes new ways to sell Office
News The company has talked broadly about a "software plus services" strategy in which online services are used to augment existing software products. Microsoft won't say for sure that's where it's headed, though chief executive Steve Ballmer did note...
[July 12, 2007, 8:16]
Gates looks to life beyond Microsoft
News You've been involved in the foundation stuff for a long time and you've talked about bringing in experts. Ballmer: Bill's capacity to absorb, to connect concepts and to contribute is unparalleled. Ballmer: I'll expect Bill to continue to provide...
[June 16, 2006, 8:50]
At what point should Microsoft get scared?
Blog Schmidt talked on stage about the revelation he'd had about calendaring being at the heart of enterprise: when I use Exchange's calendaring, the revelation I get is that I hope to the highest powers in the cosmos that someone fixes it soon.
[October 29, 2009, 18:53]
Bill Gates talks Vista and Linux
News And we've talked with some operators — they like the idea of what we're doing there. One of the approaches that has been talked about, inside Microsoft, is the idea of mobile phones and using them with nearby screens make them more of a PC-like...
[November 20, 2006, 12:48]
Microsoft adds IP indemnity to Linux fight
News Chief executive Steve Ballmer talked about indemnity as a key differentiator during Tuesday's shareholder meeting. We enhance the intellectual property indemnifications we give our customers," Ballmer said at the meeting.
[November 10, 2004, 7:23]
Microsoft and Nortel launch unified comms partnership
News Much of the deep integration that executives talked about on Wednesday isn't expected to hit the market until 2009. Steve Ballmer and Mike Zafirovski first said back in July 2006 that they would work together on product integration, but this is the...
[January 17, 2007, 18:05]
Microsoft scales back Longhorn for 2006 launch
News The company has talked about an Office version designed to specifically take advantage of Longhorn's new features. Ballmer said all the major components would still be part of the OS but that the company was planning to "carve a couple of features...
[April 12, 2004, 10:35]
Microsoft agrees to change Vista desktop search
News In the filing, Microsoft talked for the first time about when that service pack would arrive, saying a beta version will come by the end of the year. Last week, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer dismissed Google's complaints, saying at the...
[June 20, 2007, 8:37]
Ballmer: Windows will come under attack
News He talked about the competition from Linux and Apple and the looming threat from Google's Android and Chrome OS. Kicking off a financial analyst meeting on Thursday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer addressed the threats to Microsoft's...
[July 31, 2009, 14:52]
Ballmer on Google, the economy and Windows 7
News Ballmer talked about what the "reset" will mean for Microsoft, as well as lessons learned from Vista and Microsoft's move to put Office on the web. We've talked about Google, we've talked about the economy.
[January 9, 2009, 7:35]
Ballmer and McNealy play buddies
News In an interview in San Francisco with ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer and Sun chief executive Scott McNealy talked about the deal, what it means for competitors, whether Scott will stop making fun of...
[April 5, 2004, 11:25]
