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Steve Ballmer’s exit not planned or as smooth as portrayed by Microsoft
According to sources close to the situation…
If Steve Ballmer ran Apple
Imagine Steve Ballmer was right now the CEO of Apple…
Under sales guy Ballmer, Microsoft’s stock has been a dud
When Steve Ballmer took over as CEO in January 2000…
A Tale of Two Steves: Apple’s Jobs vs. Microsoft’s Ballmer
Steve Ballmer proved to be the anti-Steve Jobs…
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s $16 billion albatross
It’s hard not to feel a little bit bad for Steve Ballmer today…
Microsoft stock surges on Ballmer retirement news
Stock futures have moved into positive territory just ahead…
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months as BoD initiates succession process
Well, it’s finally happened…
Turns out, nobody wants to touch Windows 8 (and Microsoft is screwed)
Windows 8’s flaws have resulted in the worst of all worlds…
Class-action suit filed against Microsoft over Surface tablet flop
The law firm Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd has filed a class-action suit against Microsoft…
Desperate Microsoft cuts Surface Pro tablet prices; could signal even more losses
Just over two weeks after Microsoft (MSFT) took a $900 million charge…
Microsoft’s Surface sales figures are in, and they’re a total disaster
Microsoft’s total Surface revenue for all of fiscal 2013 amounted to just…
Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer admits ‘iPad killer’ Surface RT tablet a huge mistake
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has finally admitted the obvious…
The irrelevance of beleaguered Microsoft
Beleaguered Microsoft’s share of connected devices has collapsed…
Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to speed up
This is what happens when you don’t accept reality…
Why Microsoft’s Surface utterly failed and Apple’s iPad succeeded wildly
Microsoft has announced that it was taking a $900 million write-down on Surface tablets…
Weak Windows PC market catches up to Microsoft
The personal computer business has been in the worst downturn since the industry’s inception…
Microsoft earnings, sales badly miss expectations; $900 million inventory writedown on Surface tablet flop
Microsoft’s fourth quarter earnings and sales missed expectations by a wide margin…
Beleaguered Nokia reports lower-than-expected revenue, Needham downgrades
Shares of Nokia (NOK) are down following a Q2 report this morning…
Microsoft and Nokia can’t hide from the very, very ugly truth: Windows Phone is failing miserably
Neither Microsoft nor Nokia can hide from the very, very ugly truth…
Nielsen: Microsoft pays the most to market its products
Microsoft has not been shy in the past to spend its money on advertising…
Jean-Louis Gassée: Enormous differences between Apple’s 1997 and Microsoft’s 2013 reorganizations
There are enormous differences between the scorched-earth reorganization of Apple in 1997…
Microsoft Steve Ballmer’s latest labyrinthine reorg doomed by contradictions
Microsoft unveiled a long-awaited new strategy…
Ballmer tightens death grip on Microsoft with major revamp
Microsoft Corp’s sweeping re-organization on Thursday creates…
Steve Ballmer’s Jobsian ‘vision’ is for Microsoft to work like Apple
Steve Ballmer wants Microsoft to work more like Apple…
Microsoft slashes price of its moribund Surface RT tablet
Microsoft is slashing the price of its anemic-selling Surface RT tablet…
Steve Ballmer’s reorganization email: ‘One Strategy, One Microsoft’ or something
The following gem is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s email to employees…
iPad roadkill: Microsoft’s Surface flops despite relentless advertising
Microsoft announced Surface last summer to great fanfare…
Hackers attack Microsoft computers using Google researcher’s exploit
Microsoft Corp said hackers have attacked some computers by exploiting a bug in Windows…
Microsoft looks to move Windows XP sufferers off antiquated 12-year old OS by next April
Starting April 8, 2014, there will be no more patches or updates for Windows XP…
Microsoft’s moribund Windows RT rasps out death rattle
The death knell is sounding for Microsoft’s Windows RT operating system…
Nokia’s Stephen Elop: The worst CEO of all time
Ok. Now its pretty well established in several news sources…
Microsoft tries to revive floundering Windows by returning ‘start’ button in 8.1 update
Microsoft on Wednesday launched its latest effort to reverse…
What is wrong with Microsoft?
Microsoft’s had a tough year, and it’s not even half over…
Steve Ballmer to unveil S.S. Microsoft’s new arrangement of deck chairs by July 1
According to sources close to the situation, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer…
Microsoft massively discounts anemic-selling Surface RT tablets to schools worldwide
Microsoft has announced a new program that will see schools around…
Microsoft gives away 10,000 Surface RT tablets at education conference
Microsoft will give attendees at the…
Apple building giant new flagship retail store to overshadow Microsoft in Palo Alto
Apple is building a big, visually stunning store in the Stanford shopping center…
Former Xbox manager: To save Microsoft, Ballmer and thousands of others must go
When Jennie Locati heard that Microsoft is looking to restructure the company, yet again…
Thousands queue up at Honolulu Microsoft store opening – for free concert tickets
About 2,000 people waited next to the second-floor Shirokiya entrance…
Microsoft is reorganizing – again
The cuckoo concept behind this latest chair-swizzle seems to be…
Captain Ballmer working hard on rearranging S.S. Microsoft’s deck chairs yet again
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is working on what is likely to turn into a significant restructuring…
