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Tag: Steve Ballmer

Microsoft declines to name new Ballmer replacement this year, promises new CEO in ‘early 2014’

Tuesday, December 17, 2013 5:08 pm27 Comments

From an initial pool of 100 candidates, Microsoft narrowed to 20…

So much for Microsoft, Qualcomm names Mollenkopf as incoming CEO

Thursday, December 12, 2013 11:11 pmFriday, December 13, 201324 Comments

Qualcomm Inc named its chief operating officer, Steve Mollenkopf…

Qualcomm COO Mollenkopf added to Microsoft CEO candidate list, sources say

Thursday, December 12, 2013 7:03 pmThursday, December 12, 201321 Comments

Microsoft Corp.’s board is considering Qualcomm Inc. Chief Operating Officer Steve Mollenkopf…

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 develops ‘smart bra’ to prevent women from eating too much

Wednesday, December 4, 2013 6:01 pmWednesday, December 4, 201354 Comments

Microsoft is researching bringing artificial intelligence to braziers…

Microsoft looks ready to kill off Windows RT

Tuesday, November 26, 2013 6:07 pmTuesday, November 26, 201340 Comments

Do not risk your hard-earned money on Microsoft’s dead end products…

Bill Gates speaks, and chokes up, at Steve Ballmer’s final Microsoft shareholders meeting (with video)

Tuesday, November 19, 2013 3:57 pmTuesday, November 19, 201342 Comments

Microsoft’s annual meeting of shareholders in Bellevue this morning…

Nokia shareholders approve Microsoft’s $7.2 billion acquisition

Tuesday, November 19, 2013 11:45 am11 Comments

Nokia shareholders have approved a deal allowing Microsoft to purchase…

Microsoft short-timer Steve Ballmer’s exit interview

Monday, November 18, 2013 9:31 amMonday, November 18, 201331 Comments

Steve Ballmer paced his corner office on a foggy January morning here…

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…

How Steve Jobs’ side bet on the iPad affected Microsoft’s tablets

Monday, October 21, 2013 12:48 pmMonday, October 21, 201323 Comments

When Steve Jobs took the stage to introduce the iPad in 2010…

Beleaguered Microsoft pulls Windows RT 8.1 update; crashes Surface tablets

Monday, October 21, 2013 9:01 amMonday, October 21, 201354 Comments

Microsoft has pulled a Windows update from its website…

In the last five years, Microsoft’s share of personal computing plummeted from 90% to 32%

Thursday, October 10, 2013 6:23 pm42 Comments

Gartner reported that PC shipments totaled 80.3 million units in Q3…

Squirmfest: Video of Ballmer’s tearful farewell to Microsoft

Monday, September 30, 2013 5:17 pmMonday, September 30, 201389 Comments

Outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has always been…

Ballmer bids tearful farewell to Microsoft employees, promises it will ‘deliver the next big thing’

Friday, September 27, 2013 10:14 amFriday, September 27, 201379 Comments

Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer bid farewell to employees…

Years after being shown by Apple, poor Microsoft still doesn’t understand what tablets are for

Tuesday, September 24, 2013 4:00 pmTuesday, September 24, 201350 Comments

Microsoft aims to solidify their hold on a key niche market: People who hate fun…

Microsoft unveils Surface 2 tablet; nobody cares about this one, either

Tuesday, September 24, 2013 8:35 amTuesday, September 24, 201365 Comments

This will once again not end well for Microsoft…

Hedge fund manager: Microsoft will beat Apple

Tuesday, September 17, 2013 6:57 pm64 Comments

A top hedge fund manager said Tuesday that Microsoft has a business model…

Microsoft plans September 23 Surface tablet event

Monday, September 9, 2013 5:43 pmMonday, September 9, 201368 Comments

Microsoft on Monday sent out invitations to a September 23 event…

What’s behind Microsoft’s fall from dominance?

Friday, September 6, 2013 2:10 pm41 Comments

The decade since Steve Ballmer took over as chief executive at Microsoft…

Beleaguered Microsoft’s heyday is far in the past; its future is slow, inexorable decline

Tuesday, September 3, 2013 5:01 pmTuesday, September 3, 201351 Comments

Over the course of Steve Ballmer’s tenure as Microsoft CEO…

Microsoft shares drop on $7.2 billion Nokia phone deal

Tuesday, September 3, 2013 1:27 pm16 Comments

Microsoft is wagering $7.2 billion on the idea that owning Nokia’s phone business will help…

Buying Nokia does not help Microsoft become more like Apple

Tuesday, September 3, 2013 9:37 amTuesday, September 3, 201339 Comments

So the deal that should have been done 2 years ago is at last completed…

Beleaguered Nokia to sell handset business to Microsoft for $7.2 billion

Tuesday, September 3, 2013 9:01 amTuesday, September 3, 201349 Comments

Two years after hitching its fate to Microsoft’s Windows Phone software…

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…

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 Apple double-standard report

Friday, July 26, 2013 4:01 pmFriday, July 26, 201320 Comments

Imagine, just imagine, that Apple had to take a one billion dollar write-down…

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…

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