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Tag: Ballmer T. Clown

The rise and fall of Windows Mobile, under outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer

Monday, August 26, 2013 12:34 pmMonday, August 26, 201322 Comments

For several years, before Apple introduced an iPhone…

Steve Ballmer’s exit not planned or as smooth as portrayed by Microsoft

Monday, August 26, 2013 11:09 amMonday, August 26, 201332 Comments

According to sources close to the situation…

If Steve Ballmer ran Apple

Monday, August 26, 2013 10:00 amMonday, August 26, 201324 Comments

Imagine Steve Ballmer was right now the CEO of Apple…

Under sales guy Ballmer, Microsoft’s stock has been a dud

Monday, August 26, 2013 9:02 am20 Comments

When Steve Ballmer took over as CEO in January 2000…

A Tale of Two Steves: Apple’s Jobs vs. Microsoft’s Ballmer

Saturday, August 24, 2013 12:29 pmTuesday, August 27, 201363 Comments

Steve Ballmer proved to be the anti-Steve Jobs…

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s $16 billion albatross

Friday, August 23, 2013 2:58 pmFriday, August 23, 201314 Comments

It’s hard not to feel a little bit bad for Steve Ballmer today…

Microsoft stock surges on Ballmer retirement news

Friday, August 23, 2013 10:33 amFriday, August 23, 201359 Comments

Stock futures have moved into positive territory just ahead…

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months as BoD initiates succession process

Friday, August 23, 2013 9:31 amMonday, August 26, 2013176 Comments

Well, it’s finally happened…

Turns out, nobody wants to touch Windows 8 (and Microsoft is screwed)

Tuesday, August 20, 2013 11:28 amThursday, January 2, 201441 Comments

Windows 8’s flaws have resulted in the worst of all worlds…

Class-action suit filed against Microsoft over Surface tablet flop

Tuesday, August 13, 2013 4:28 pmTuesday, August 13, 201333 Comments

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

Tuesday, August 6, 2013 5:00 pmTuesday, August 13, 201356 Comments

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

Tuesday, July 30, 2013 10:00 pmTuesday, July 30, 201369 Comments

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

Monday, July 29, 2013 1:29 pmMonday, July 29, 201360 Comments

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has finally admitted the obvious…

The irrelevance of beleaguered Microsoft

Friday, July 26, 2013 10:02 amFriday, July 26, 201328 Comments

Beleaguered Microsoft’s share of connected devices has collapsed…

Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to speed up

Thursday, July 25, 2013 6:00 pmThursday, July 25, 201362 Comments

This is what happens when you don’t accept reality…

Why Microsoft’s Surface utterly failed and Apple’s iPad succeeded wildly

Friday, July 19, 2013 1:02 pmFriday, July 19, 201350 Comments

Microsoft has announced that it was taking a $900 million write-down on Surface tablets…

Weak Windows PC market catches up to Microsoft

Friday, July 19, 2013 10:01 amFriday, July 19, 201324 Comments

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

Thursday, July 18, 2013 6:08 pmThursday, September 5, 201355 Comments

Microsoft’s fourth quarter earnings and sales missed expectations by a wide margin…

Beleaguered Nokia reports lower-than-expected revenue, Needham downgrades

Thursday, July 18, 2013 4:01 pmThursday, July 18, 20137 Comments

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

Thursday, July 18, 2013 11:01 amThursday, July 18, 201328 Comments

Neither Microsoft nor Nokia can hide from the very, very ugly truth…

Nielsen: Microsoft pays the most to market its products

Wednesday, July 17, 2013 3:02 pmWednesday, July 17, 201321 Comments

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

Monday, July 15, 2013 11:01 amTuesday, September 10, 201313 Comments

There are enormous differences between the scorched-earth reorganization of Apple in 1997…

Microsoft Steve Ballmer’s latest labyrinthine reorg doomed by contradictions

Friday, July 12, 2013 4:45 pmFriday, July 12, 201322 Comments

Microsoft unveiled a long-awaited new strategy…

Ballmer tightens death grip on Microsoft with major revamp

Friday, July 12, 2013 3:32 pmSaturday, July 13, 201319 Comments

Microsoft Corp’s sweeping re-organization on Thursday creates…

Steve Ballmer’s Jobsian ‘vision’ is for Microsoft to work like Apple

Friday, July 12, 2013 12:40 pmFriday, July 12, 201321 Comments

Steve Ballmer wants Microsoft to work more like Apple…

Microsoft slashes price of its moribund Surface RT tablet

Thursday, July 11, 2013 9:36 pmThursday, July 11, 201332 Comments

Microsoft is slashing the price of its anemic-selling Surface RT tablet…

Steve Ballmer’s reorganization email: ‘One Strategy, One Microsoft’ or something

Thursday, July 11, 2013 2:28 pmThursday, July 11, 201387 Comments

The following gem is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s email to employees…

iPad roadkill: Microsoft’s Surface flops despite relentless advertising

Thursday, July 11, 2013 1:03 pmThursday, July 11, 201345 Comments

Microsoft announced Surface last summer to great fanfare…

Hackers attack Microsoft computers using Google researcher’s exploit

Tuesday, July 9, 2013 8:25 pmTuesday, July 9, 201314 Comments

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

Tuesday, July 9, 2013 7:00 pmTuesday, July 9, 201342 Comments

Starting April 8, 2014, there will be no more patches or updates for Windows XP…

Microsoft’s moribund Windows RT rasps out death rattle

Tuesday, July 9, 2013 3:31 pmTuesday, July 9, 201332 Comments

The death knell is sounding for Microsoft’s Windows RT operating system…

Nokia’s Stephen Elop: The worst CEO of all time

Friday, June 28, 2013 3:30 pmFriday, June 28, 201318 Comments

Ok. Now its pretty well established in several news sources…

Microsoft tries to revive floundering Windows by returning ‘start’ button in 8.1 update

Wednesday, June 26, 2013 6:19 pm73 Comments

Microsoft on Wednesday launched its latest effort to reverse…

What is wrong with Microsoft?

Tuesday, June 25, 2013 3:10 pmTuesday, June 25, 201328 Comments

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

Tuesday, June 25, 2013 9:56 am26 Comments

According to sources close to the situation, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer…

Microsoft massively discounts anemic-selling Surface RT tablets to schools worldwide

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 6:34 pm42 Comments

Microsoft has announced a new program that will see schools around…

Microsoft gives away 10,000 Surface RT tablets at education conference

Monday, June 17, 2013 6:02 pmMonday, June 17, 201365 Comments

Microsoft will give attendees at the…

Apple building giant new flagship retail store to overshadow Microsoft in Palo Alto

Monday, June 17, 2013 8:58 amMonday, June 17, 201317 Comments

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

Saturday, June 15, 2013 10:04 amSaturday, June 15, 201351 Comments

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

Thursday, June 13, 2013 6:01 pmThursday, June 13, 201347 Comments

About 2,000 people waited next to the second-floor Shirokiya entrance…

Microsoft is reorganizing – again

Tuesday, June 4, 2013 1:01 pmTuesday, June 4, 201335 Comments

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

Monday, June 3, 2013 1:32 pmMonday, June 3, 201336 Comments

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is working on what is likely to turn into a significant restructuring…

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