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Tag: Ballmer

Steve Ballmer still doesn’t understand why Apple’s iPhone succeeded

Monday, November 7, 2016 3:58 pmMonday, November 7, 201624 Comments

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is right about one thing: Microsoft waited way too long…

Sony shames beleaguered Microsoft’s Xbox as juggernaut PlayStation 4 nears 36 million units sold

Tuesday, January 5, 2016 4:14 pmTuesday, January 5, 201618 Comments

Sony’s unstoppable PS4 has chalked up 35.9 million in global sales…

Ex-CEO of company known for ugly, confusing products unveils ugly, confusing logo for his pet NBA team

Friday, June 19, 2015 10:16 amFriday, June 19, 201545 Comments

Clippers owner Steve Ballmer knows the reviews on the team’s new logo…

Ballmer’s basketball team blows it in NBA playoffs

Monday, May 18, 2015 8:24 amMonday, May 18, 201525 Comments

“Steve Ballmer, the former Microsoft CEO who paid a record $2 billion…

See Steve Ballmer’s crazy dad dance moves, rocking out to Fergie

Thursday, January 8, 2015 4:22 pmThursday, January 8, 201541 Comments

On Wednesday, former Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer…


Steve Ballmer wrote Windows’ ubiquitous ‘Blue Screen of Death’ message

Thursday, September 4, 2014 10:58 amThursday, September 4, 201435 Comments

When Ballmer visited the Windows team he thought…

Beleaguered Microsoft will never learn, keeps attacking Apple

Thursday, August 14, 2014 11:47 am46 Comments

The myth that Satya Nadella has (or soon will) profoundly change Microsoft…

Microsoft’s Xbox One has lost $400 million so far

Monday, August 11, 2014 9:28 amMonday, August 11, 201420 Comments

Microsoft has announced that its latest games console…

Beleaguered Microsoft’s Xbox One is failing

Tuesday, August 5, 2014 5:01 pm39 Comments

During Microsoft’s second quarter, the company sold a total…

Surface damage mounts at beleaguered Microsoft as losses surpass $1.7 billion

Monday, August 4, 2014 6:02 pmTuesday, August 5, 201448 Comments

Three strikes and yer out!

Beleaguered Microsoft’s strategy: Fire thousands of employees and then what?

Friday, July 18, 2014 1:28 pmMonday, July 21, 201463 Comments

This is not a very good time to be working at Microsoft…

Desperate Microsoft offers $650 store credit for MacBook Air for Surface Pro 3 trade-in

Monday, June 23, 2014 3:25 pmMonday, June 23, 201448 Comments

Microsoft is offering a limited time Surface Pro 3 promotion via which users…

Microsoft shortchanges 5 million Xbox One suckers

Monday, May 19, 2014 3:29 pmMonday, May 19, 201421 Comments

Microsoft has a message for you: SUCKERS!

Beleaguered Microsoft is now irrelevant to computing, and they want the world to know it

Monday, May 19, 2014 8:58 amMonday, May 19, 201438 Comments

With two major cave-ins in the past few weeks, Microsoft is screaming at the top of its lungs about how irrelevant it is…

Microsoft CEO Nadella to unveil latest stab at tablets with updates to moribund Surface product

Friday, May 16, 2014 1:00 pmFriday, May 16, 201425 Comments

Nadella risks hitting a rough patch next week when he unveils the latest models of the tepidly received Surface tablet.

Microsoft’s beleaguered Nokia sees smartphone sales, profits plunge in Q4

Thursday, January 23, 2014 12:20 pm22 Comments

Windows Phone Lumia smartphones failed to draw business away from larger competitors like Apple…

Even more Microsoft executive departures mark end of a Windows era

Thursday, January 2, 2014 1:29 pmThursday, January 2, 201432 Comments

A complete housecleaning following the Windows 8ista debacle…

Former Apple exec: Has Microsoft gone nuts?

Friday, December 20, 2013 2:01 pmFriday, December 20, 201336 Comments

Of all of the dramas currently unfolding in the tech world right now…

Ford’s Alan Mulally not looking likely as Microsoft CEO

Thursday, December 5, 2013 6:02 pmThursday, December 5, 201323 Comments

Also on Microsoft’s final candidate list are Stephen Elop…

Microsoft CEO candidate Elop said to mull focus company on Office, not Windows

Friday, November 8, 2013 9:32 am19 Comments

Stephen Elop, a candidate to replace Steve Ballmer as Microsoft CEO…

Microsoft said to include Kevin Turner on internal list for CEO

Wednesday, November 6, 2013 9:11 pm43 Comments

Microsoft Corp.’s board placed Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner…

Microsoft narrows CEO shortlist; Elop, Mulally make the cut

Tuesday, November 5, 2013 11:30 pm43 Comments

Microsoft Corp has narrowed its list of external candidates…

Microsoft short-timer Ballmer loses over half his bonus over failure to compete with Apple

Friday, October 4, 2013 8:58 amFriday, October 4, 201340 Comments

Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer received $1.26 million…

Ford’s Alan Mulally to become Microsoft’s next CEO?

Thursday, September 26, 2013 11:12 pmThursday, September 26, 201349 Comments

Ford CEO Alan Mulally has vaulted to the forefront of the candidates…

Rob Enderle: ‘I may be delusional’

Friday, August 30, 2013 10:58 amFriday, August 30, 201355 Comments

I view Steve’s early retirement as one of my own greatest failures…

British Bookmaker Ladbrokes takes bets on Microsoft’s next CEO

Wednesday, August 28, 2013 5:03 pmFriday, August 30, 201324 Comments

While much of the tech world has spent the last week handicapping…

Ballmer’s poisonous employee-ranking system helps explain beleaguered Microsoft’s decline

Tuesday, August 27, 2013 4:30 pmTuesday, August 27, 201358 Comments

There were many reasons for the decline of Microsoft under Steve Ballmer…

Microsoft seeks to reassure workers by telling them that Ballmer’s reorg plan will go ahead

Tuesday, August 27, 2013 9:05 amTuesday, August 27, 201335 Comments

Microsoft Corp. is telling employees that a reorganization plan…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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