Microsoft Keeps Its Open Source Enemies Close
News At April's Microsoft Management Summit, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer took a significant step away from the company's long-standing emphasis on homogenous Windows application and server environments.
[June 30, 2005, 17:00]
Microsoft Targets Java Rivals
News But Longhorn, which Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer called a "bet the company" release of Windows, has taken on even greater importance than previous updates to the operating system. Virtually everything we're doing from a product...
[August 8, 2003, 11:15]
Windows Server 2003 Launches, At Last
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer will officially launch Windows Server 2003 at a press conference in San Francisco. Also on Thursday, Microsoft plans to launch Visual Studio .Net 2003, a new version of its development tools, and SQL Server...
[April 24, 2003, 11:52]
Previous Punches From Sun
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer and Gates) Ballmer and Butt-Head. Listen, I have never turned down a meeting with Gates or Ballmer. Compiled from CNET News.com archives, BusinessWeek and the books "Bad Boy Ballmer" and "High Noon.
[April 5, 2004, 9:00]
Microsoft Remakes Its .NET Pitch
News There are lots of big wins we're getting," said Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer in an interview. But the theme of the day was the road to Microsoft .NET, the umbrella of technology and product directions presented by Microsoft a month ago.
[July 28, 2000, 11:11]
Microsoft 'pushing, Pushing, Pushing' In Embedded Arena
News We have delivered the PocketPC, Car.Net and the MSN Web Companion, among others, and Microsoft will continue to be a leading-edge user of the technology we provide this market," Ballmer said. During his hour-long keynote before nearly a thousand...
[February 7, 2001, 12:04]
McNealy Scoffs At .Net
News Ballmer, who delivered the keynote speech at The Industry Standard's annual Internet Summit, said the company's .Net program has about 3,500 corporate customers and may grow to as many as 7,000 clients in the next few years.
[July 24, 2001, 14:54]
Ballmer Memo On Where Microsoft Is Headed
Blog Full text of a memo Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent out this message to the rank and file yesterday, after the announcement that Windows and online chief Kevin Johnson was leaving. From: Steve Ballmer
[July 25, 2008, 12:41]
MS .Net: Integration To The Max
News We are taking elements of the user interface and programming model, and nicely and tightly integrating them, first into the client, and then into the server," Microsoft chief executive and president Steve Ballmer told attendees.
[June 23, 2000, 8:30]
Q&A: Steve Ballmer - Trust Microsoft
News CNET News.com recently spent time with Ballmer to learn more about the company's security review and get an update on Microsoft's ongoing .Net migration. Little in Steve Ballmer's two years as chief executive resembles the scope of the challenge...
[February 6, 2002, 16:18]
Microsoft Expected To Offer Linux Software
News In September, chief executive Steve Ballmer described Linux as "a serious competitor.Linux isn't going to go away -- our job is to provide a better product in the marketplace. That popularity, Meta said, will lead Microsoft to offer Linux support...
[December 10, 2002, 9:02]
Microsoft Plans First Peek At Longhorn For October
News Company chief executive Steve Ballmer wrote in a June memo that Longhorn was a big bet, "even bigger, perhaps, than the first-generation Windows release. Microsoft also will discuss the next version of its .Net Framework, the software plumbing that...
[August 26, 2003, 11:40]
LinuxWorld Shows Software Entering Adulthood
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has declared Linux to be the software giant's number on threat. Its growth went hand in hand with the Internet technology frenzy, but only a handful of companies -- notably Red Hat, VA Linux Systems, Andover...
[January 30, 2001, 11:07]
Microsoft And Open Source: Lessons Learned?
News While Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has suggested over the past two years that the company was interested in making the Windows source code more freely available, there was little evidence that Microsoft actually was interested in doing so.
[February 1, 2001, 14:34]
Lotus Users In Microsoft's Crosshairs
News Chief executive Steve Ballmer also painted a target on the Lotus Notes customer base at last year's partner conference, saying it was "ripe to be plucked". Cain said that the Domino-Exchange battle is part of a broader software competition between...
[January 17, 2006, 12:25]
Microsoft To Extend .Net To Unix
News Ballmer also reportedly confirmed that Microsoft would ensure that programmers working with Java would be able to create applications that fully interoperate with .Net. Microsoft's chief executive Steve Ballmer is reported to have revealed the move...
[March 14, 2001, 8:25]
Thursday
Blog Thursday 24/04/2003Windows Server 2003 is launched today, and I win the much-coveted chance to go and have Steve Ballmer yell at me by remote control. I had a cracking talk with Rob Short, MS' kernel supreme, who was a Real Engineer and thus made...
[April 25, 2003, 16:16]
Microsoft To Launch 'Windows Cloud' In A Month
News Ballmer suggested that developers would be able to use the .NET Framework to build applications for the cloud, server, browser and client, and said Windows Cloud would make it possible to deliver "click-to-run" software more efficiently than was...
[October 2, 2008, 16:25]
Microsoft: The Next Quarter Century Pt II
News When then-president Steve Ballmer asked Gross to pull together a cross-divisional group focusing on wireless, Gross knew he had his work cut out for him, as Microsoft's corporate culture has emphasised the competitive over the cooperative.
[September 4, 2000, 14:28]
Microsoft: The Next Quarter Century
News Nearly two years ago, Ballmer, who at that time was new to the president's role, warned Microsoft management that the company had to take some radical steps to get back on track. While chairman Bill Gates and chief executive Steve Ballmer...
[September 4, 2000, 14:22]
