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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…

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…

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…

Beleaguered Microsoft shares hit by biggest sell-off in 13 years; $36 billion chopped off company value

Friday, July 19, 2013 6:01 pmFriday, July 19, 201379 Comments

Microsoft Corp shares fell more than 12 percent on Friday…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Microsoft brings back ‘start’ button in attempt to reverse declining Windows sales

Thursday, May 30, 2013 1:02 pmThursday, May 30, 201368 Comments

Microsoft Corp is bringing back the Windows ‘start’ button…

Xbox One might not be the game changer Microsoft claims

Thursday, May 23, 2013 5:03 pm39 Comments

Microsoft’s Xbox One is ugly at best, with limited functionality that will prevent most consumers…

Windows 8ista: Microsoft admits failure

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 10:01 amTuesday, May 7, 201387 Comments

One of the most prominent admissions of failure since Coca-Cola’s New Coke fiasco…

Microsoft cautiously preps 2nd-generation of Surface tablet flops with smaller displays

Thursday, May 2, 2013 9:25 amThursday, May 2, 201335 Comments

Microsoft is expected to announce second-generation Surface tablets…

How Tim Cook is like Steve Ballmer

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 11:12 amTuesday, April 23, 201331 Comments

It’s worth pointing out that Apple is not the only big tech company…

Stick a fork in Microsoft’s Windows, it’s done

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 9:31 amWednesday, April 17, 201343 Comments

Calling the latest operating system a ‘failure’ and Microsoft’s leaders ‘idiots’…

Microsoft’s stock takes beating after putrid Windows PC shipment reports

Thursday, April 11, 2013 10:08 pmFriday, April 12, 201348 Comments

Microsoft’s stock took a beating in trading today…

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer deserves the Ron Johnson treatment

Wednesday, April 10, 2013 2:03 pmWednesday, April 10, 201320 Comments

Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer, has had more than enough time…

Scroogled: Microsoft blasts Google over ‘nefarious’ uses of Android users’ personal information

Tuesday, April 9, 2013 2:31 pmTuesday, April 9, 201313 Comments

Google has evolved from an endearing Internet startup to an imposing giant that vacuums intimate details about people’s lives…

The real reason Microsoft’s Windows Phone is failing

Thursday, April 4, 2013 3:03 pmThursday, April 4, 201327 Comments

It’s no secret: Windows Phone sales stink…

Windows RT tablet prices drop, pointing to failure of Windows RT

Thursday, April 4, 2013 2:31 pmThursday, April 4, 201320 Comments

Prices of Windows RT devices have started falling…

Why Microsoft’s Windows 8 is an even bigger flop than Windows Vista

Tuesday, April 2, 2013 10:28 am41 Comments

Windows 8 is doing significantly worse than Microsoft’s biggest failure, Windows Vista…

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