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Ballmer: It's OK To Skip Vista, Wait For Windows 7
News Speaking on Thursday at Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo conference in Orlando, Florida, Ballmer defended Vista and noted that "the adoption rate of Vista is two times faster than XP at two years in". Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has said he...
[October 17, 2008, 9:00]
Microsoft Throws Another Lifeline To Windows XP
News When asked about whether companies should move to Vista or wait for Windows 7, even Ballmer said it depends on the business. Chief executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday in France that 180 million copies of Vista have been sold, but he noted that...
[October 6, 2008, 8:42]
Vista Sales Gaining Momentum
News Ballmer said that, while there may be a few PCs still on the market that have XP, it's Vista that consumers are buying. Yes, there's one or two models you can find someplace in the world of PCs that don't run Windows Vista," Ballmer said.
[October 29, 2007, 14:59]
PC Makers Find Ways To Extend XP's Life
News As for whether a broader reprieve might yet come for XP, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has left the door open a crack. XP will hit an end-of-life," Ballmer said recently. ZDNet.co.uk has asked Microsoft to clarify Ballmer's statement, but...
[April 28, 2008, 14:04]
Vista Launch Kicks Off In New York
News Ballmer said he expects initial sales of Vista to be five times what they were with Windows 95. The festivities moved indoors for a midday lunch at the trendy Cipriani restaurant, where Microsoft chief exeutive Steve Ballmer toasted the launch...
[January 30, 2007, 7:58]
Ballmer Claims Microsoft Is Thinking Green
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has claimed that more efficient use of IT is one of the company's main priorities for the future despite the fact the company has been widely criticised for producing processor-hungry software.
[March 5, 2008, 14:31]
Intel's Atom Burns Microsoft, Brings Back Memories
Blog For instance, as to plans for Windows NT, Ballmer wrote Jon Lazarus in April 1992: the design preview has not leaked to the press are you surprised do you wish it would if so when” Ballmer, as far as is known, continues to work for Microsoft.
[March 10, 2008, 16:56]
Ballmer: Vista Delays Won't Be Repeated
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer wrapped up a meeting with financial analysts on Thursday by promising that the company would make sure it releases new Windows versions more quickly. Despite the desire to make Windows releases more frequent...
[July 28, 2006, 9:00]
Ballmer: Vista Needs A Bigger Marketing Budget
News According to Ballmer, Windows is the company's biggest growth opportunity, which could, according to an analyst, be because large companies still prefer XP to Vista. Matthew Oostveen, software analyst at research firm IDC, said that Ballmer's...
[February 5, 2008, 9:02]
XP Is Dead; Long Live XP
News Those campaigning for an XP reprieve jumped on Ballmer's words and petitions flew around the internet calling for continued sales of the operating system. Asked whether Microsoft might consider extending the 30 June deadline for XP sales, Steve...
[June 30, 2008, 13:53]
Evidence Mounts For Premium Vista
News Chief executive Steve Ballmer first made reference to the enterprise version of Windows Vista in a meeting with financial analysts in July. With Windows Vista, Microsoft is considering a product line-up that would include several new high-end...
[September 14, 2005, 9:05]
Vista's Six Versions Finalised
News Microsoft has been planning for some time to offer higher-end versions of its OS with Vista.chief executive Steve Ballmer first noted that an Enterprise version was coming at a financial analysts' meeting last summer.
[February 27, 2006, 10:30]
Microsoft To Launch Live CRM
News Ballmer called CRM Live "maybe the single most inevitable announcement in the history of Microsoft". At the Boston event, Ballmer also discussed Microsoft's priorities for the coming year. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, announced the...
[July 12, 2006, 8:40]
Ballmer: Software Is Becoming A Service
News Acknowledging the software industry is undergoing a radical transformation, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday that his company is moving rapidly to create products that can be funded by ads and served up over the Internet.
[July 28, 2006, 10:30]
Bill Gates Talks Vista And Linux
News Steve Ballmer. Well, Steve — Steve Sinofsky, you mean, or Steve Ballmer? In the second part of our two-part interview, Gates reveals his favourite feature in Windows Vista, why he'll keep pushing for a new file system, and the role of open source...
[November 20, 2006, 12:48]
How Microsoft Can Make Windows 7 A Success
News Microsoft may continue to defend Vista, as Steve Ballmer did at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo on 16 October, but make no mistake: the company has already moved past Vista, psychologically and strategically.
[October 28, 2008, 12:03]
Ballmer Cautious; Shock
Blog But on the potential sales of Vista, Ballmer was surprisingly downbeat: "I think some of the revenue forecasts I've seen out there for Windows Vista in fiscal year '08 are overly aggressive," Ballmer told the analysts in New York.
[February 21, 2007, 10:17]
Europe Won't Back Down On Vista
News Chris Heaton-Harris met with Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer at the company's campus in Seattle in August, after which he criticised the Commission's decision to fine Microsoft for antitrust violations in 2004.
[October 16, 2006, 17:20]
Top Ten Things Wrong With Zune
Blog Comment I’m not a ‘Ballmer,’ where I forbid my kids from using an iPod or Google. I do have three Windows machines (two running XP Pro, one running Vista), but I also have two Macs, and seventeen Linux machines (one client machine and a server farm of 16...
[November 27, 2006, 1:57]
What Vista Needs Is To Be Substantially Better Than XP
Talkback Steve Ballmer is amazing, how could vista possibly need anymore publicity? Could it be what most independent observers have been saying all along, that Vista isn't much better than XP? Why not spend that money on making Vista Faster, solve the...
[February 5, 2008, 21:26]
