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 have no association with the Zune or Xbox brands (I haven’t even _considered_ buying an Xbox). Rupert - I have no ‘relationship’ with Microsoft.
[November 27, 2006, 1:57]
Top Ten Things Wrong With Zune
Blog Comment If you don’t want to see Ballmer making a fool of himself, don’t watch it. Get over it, the Zune isn't trying to BE the iPod, it's trying to COMPETE with the iPod.see 10. Many of the Zune accessories look virtually identical to the iPod accessories.
[November 24, 2006, 10:54]
Top Ten Things Wrong With Zune
Blog If it succeeds, we'll get to see Steve Ballmer jumping around on stage in a tight black poloneck jumper. But those aren't the reasons Zune is doomed to become known as the New Coke of failure in the drinks holder of the Edsel of marketing misfires.
[November 23, 2006, 15:19]
Life At Microsoft In The Post-Gates Era
News She added there may well be a profound change in the company's priorities with Steve Ballmer in charge, including in terms of the kinds of employees it promotes and hires. Steve's guys' — Ballmer's favourites — are going to be more valued in the...
[June 25, 2008, 10:09]
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]
What Ballmer Really Thinks About Open Source
Blog Take Steven Ballmer's latest pronouncements, currently viewable for your delight in an interview for the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. We could dissect that twenty ways till Tuesday, but it has the ring of something that Ballmer...
[January 19, 2007, 9:08]
Ballmer: Out Of The Frying Pan And Closer To Fired
Leader Less common is the remorse of the unbought — a sensation now widely reported among major Yahoo shareholders in the wake of Ballmer's retreat. No amount of Zune will make Microsoft an Apple, no number of Xboxes will make it a Sony — and no matter...
[May 6, 2008, 17:00]
How The 'Milan' Table PC Was Born
News The idea for the new kind of computer dates back to 2001, when Bathiche was part of a team tasked by chief executive Steve Ballmer and Lisa Brummel, then head of Microsoft's home and retail unit, to come up with some ideas on how to breathe new...
[May 30, 2007, 12:04]
Top Ten Things Wrong With Zune
Blog Comment Ballmer. Golly. Can't a chap make a joke around here? Anyway. He's the one who says that iPods are full of stolen music, and that Linux contains Microsoft IP. It's the other guy - wosname, Gates? who says that he learned how to code by dumpster...
[November 25, 2006, 15:42]
