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- Top IT news for May 2: Microsoft leaning toward hostile bid, Yahoo close to Google search deal, Sun layoffs
- Top five headlines Report: Microsoft latest leaning is to go hostile Yahoo reportedly closer to Google search deal Sun plans layoffs following weak quarter; Blames U.S. economy Interop: Motorola predicts end of wired enterprise networks Intel's 10Gb NIC to ship in May ...
- Tags: Google Inc., TechRepublic Inc., Layoff, Information Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Search, IBM Corp., Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Sanity check: Has Eric Schmidt finally outmanuevered Bill Gates and steve ballmer?
- When Eric Schmidt left his job as the chairman and CEO of Novell to become the top executive at Google in 2001 he privately told journalist John Battelle that one of the things he was looking forward to was no longer competing with Microsoft. Bill Gates and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Channel Management, Search, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Top IT news for April 25: Microsoft earnings a mixed bag, new iMacs could be coming, 3G BlackBerry delayed
- Top five headlines Microsoft's quarter, outlook mixed; Client revenue misses; Xbox shines New iMacs arriving next week? 3G BlackBerry delayed until August? Cisco's co-founder wants to simplify fiber optic networks Interop Preview: Tech Industry Gets Ready To Rumble More from...
- Tags: Web, Information Technology, Steve Ballmer, Apple iMac, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Earnings, Google Finance, Web 2.0 Economy, Microsoft Windows XP, Web 2.0, 3G, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Internet, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Ballmer hints that Microsoft could keep selling Windows XP
- On Thursday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (right) conceded that Microsoft could continue selling its Windows XP operating system past the current end-of-life date -- June 30 -- if there was sufficient market demand for it. "XP will hit an end-of-life. We have announced one. If customer feedback...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Operating System, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Photos: Ballmer the Monkey Boy is back
- CEO Steve Ballmer was asked to reprise his Monkey Boy developers-developers-developers speech, this time touting Web developers. by Andy Smith
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, developers, Web developers
- Image galleries 2008-03-11
- Video: steve ballmer pitches Windows 1.0
- I have a copy of Windows 1.0Pretty cool to see this. I actually have a copy in the box on 5" floppy. Used it in a Vista demo not too long ago. How far we have come!RE: Video: Steve Ballmer pitches Windows 1.0My God,and I thought I...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Operating systems, fred.stemp@..., Windows 1.0, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows, video
- Discussion threads 2007-11-14
- Microsoft CEO talks Windows Mobile
- From CTIA 07 in San Francisco: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks with CNET News.com's Ina Fried about the importance of Windows Mobile and how he sees it evolving.
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Corp., CEO, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Advertising & Promotion, Software, Hardware, Marketing, steve ballmer, microsoft, ina fried, windows, mobile, os, smartphone, ctia, TechRepublic Inc.
- Videos 2007-10-24
- Ballmer: 'Vista is great for consumers'
- Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO, speaks with CNET News.com's Ina Fried about Vista's critics and the European Union's regulatory rulings.
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, steve ballmer, microsoft, ina fried, windows, mobile, os, smartphone, ctia, TechRepublic Inc.
- Videos 2007-10-24
- steve ballmer on the iPhone
- With the emergence of the iPhone, Windows Mobile has a strong competitor in the mobile market. CNET News.com's Ina Fried speaks with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer about what he thinks of the device, and how he sees other competitors in the market.
- Tags: Apple iPhone, News.com, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Marketing, Software, steve ballmer, microsoft, ina fried, windows, mobile, os, smartphone, ctia, apple, iphone, competition, TechRepublic Inc.
- Videos 2007-10-24
- Photos: Ballmer onstage at CTIA
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer delivers the opening keynote address at the 2007 Fall CTIA in San Francisco. by CNET News.com
- Tags: news, steve ballmer, ctia, microsoft, TechRepublic Inc., Photograph, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-10-24
- Video: Ballmer pontificates on Google's business model
- This eight-minute video features Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer as he answers questions from grad students in the business school at Stanford University, and his responses include a candid analysis of Google's business model. Ballmer essentially calls Google a one-trick pony that is still milking it's one good idea, but he's also...
- Tags: Google Inc., Steve Ballmer, Video, Corporate Communications, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2007-03-19
- Ballmer to announce new multi-touch computer called Microsoft Surface
- Surface = Glass?At least from the picture they have in the article, surface seems like a remarketing of the current glass touch screens we already have today.When the article said, "we envision a time when surface computing technologies will be pervasive, from tabletops and counters to the hallway mirror. Surface...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Devans00, Microsoft Corp., computer, Microsoft Surface
- Discussion threads 2007-05-30
- Ballmer to announce new multi-touch computer called Microsoft Surface
- Today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will divulge the details of a new product called Microsoft Surface that features a 30-inch table with a touch screen that users can interact with by using touch, gestures, and physical objects. Using the D: All Things Digital conference as the launch pad, Ballmer will...
- Tags: Surface, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Surface, Microsoft, D: All Things Digital, D5
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- No Google or iPods for steve ballmer's kids?
- My favorite story of the week was the Fortune Magazine article on Steve Ballmer's plans for keeping Microsoft on top of the technology world. I had already heard most of what Ballmer had to say in the article -- it's the usual stuff about the huge opportunity in the convergence between...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple iPod, Steve Ballmer, Kid, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2006-03-30
- Why is Microsoft hell-bent on ruining their reputation?
- Try firing a hacking tool at a Vista installation then.Hi,Hacker tool N*$%*s (available for Linux) would probably find even more vulnerable areas on a PC.There are hacker tools available to exploit servers too.The only way to secure a PC is pull the cable from the internet ADSL, cable or dial-up...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating systems, DrMarten, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-03
- Microsoft search will trump Google? ... I have a funny story about that
- This week Microsoft publicly claimed that the new search engine it is building will be better than Google in six months. That bold assertion was made by Neil Holloway, Microsoft president for Europe, Middle East and Africa, at the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit. As reported on the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Search, IPO, Strategy, Financial Services, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2006-03-03
- Sarbanes-Oxley robs Ballmer of a free Xbox 360
- Poor Steve Ballmer. At a meeting today he revealed that he does not yet have an Xbox 360. "Thanks to the wonders of Sarbanes-Oxley, management does not get a free Xbox 360," he said. As a result, he has to shop around for one like everybody else and hasn't had...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Game Players, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2005-12-07
- Ballmer repeats threats against Linux
- 1 thing I don't understand about the MS/Novell pact ...... is how the timeline comes in to play. It's a 5 year deal -- so my purported risk is mitigated for 5 years -- after which, if the deal expires, I've got a whole infrastructure on which I'm totally...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., daboochmeister
- Discussion threads 2007-02-21
- Ballmer calls Google's growth plans 'insane'
- Link to the videoBallmer: Google's growth strategy is 'insane'http://news.com.com/1606-2-6167775.htmlStay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today!http://nl.com.com/MiniFormHandler?brand=techrepublic&list_id=e019Stage Four?Ballmer's comments are quite interesting, considering Microsoft has had (and continues to have) real difficulty getting to that pesky fourth...
- Tags: SECURITY, Insanity, Sonja Thompson, Steve Ballmer, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-03-16
- Photos: Vista's business debut
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer launches the Windows update, plus new Office and Exchange, at an event in New York.
- Tags: CEO, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Update, Microsoft Windows Vista, New York, photograph, Steve Ballmer
- Image galleries 2006-11-30
