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Tag: Steve Ballmer

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 is the new Apple

Friday, July 12, 2013 10:53 amFriday, July 12, 201346 Comments

When Microsoft launched its Surface RT and Surface Pro tablets…

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…

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…

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 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…

Apple’s iTunes snub is yet another nail in Microsoft’s Windows RT coffin

Monday, May 13, 2013 10:47 am13 Comments

Windows RT just can’t catch a break. Last week’s big news…

Microsoft offers no apology for Windows 8, promises better with Windows Blue (Screen of Death)

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 2:31 pmTuesday, May 7, 201349 Comments

With Windows 8, Microsoft ignored the basic tenets of change management…

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…

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…

Ballmer must go: ‘Windows Blue’ won’t save Microsoft

Monday, March 25, 2013 2:00 pmMonday, March 25, 201344 Comments

It seems absurd to call Steve Ballmer…

Microsoft’s Surface tablets said to fall far short of predictions

Friday, March 15, 2013 11:32 amFriday, March 15, 201344 Comments

Microsoft Corp. has sold about 1.5 million Surface devices…

The late, not-so-great Microsoft Windows 8

Thursday, March 7, 2013 2:43 pmThursday, March 7, 201330 Comments

by the end of 2013, Windows will be only the third most popular computer OS in the world…

Samsung likely to pull the plug on its failing Windows RT tablet in Europe

Wednesday, March 6, 2013 6:45 pm24 Comments

By now it’s clear that the early reception to Windows RT has been…

EU fines Microsoft $733 million for breaking browser choice pact

Wednesday, March 6, 2013 9:45 am20 Comments

The European Union has fined Microsoft €561 million ($733 million) for breaking a pledge…

As Surface flops, Microsoft CFO says there’s no ‘Plan B’

Thursday, February 14, 2013 5:08 pmThursday, February 14, 201346 Comments

Microsoft Corp has not made much of a dent in Apple Inc’s dominance…

Microsoft and the Infinite Monkey Theorem of R&D spending

Wednesday, February 6, 2013 6:40 pmWednesday, February 6, 201334 Comments

Based on Microsoft’s stunningly high R&D spending levels, shareholders…

Decaying Windows PC ecosystem forces Microsoft to loan beleaguered Dell $2 billion

Wednesday, February 6, 2013 2:09 pmWednesday, February 6, 201316 Comments

Microsoft Corp is playing defense with a $2 billion loan to help Dell…

Why Microsoft may want to buyout Dell

Tuesday, January 22, 2013 4:08 pmTuesday, January 22, 201336 Comments

Microsoft, which may invest $1 billion to $3 billion in a leveraged buyout of Dell…

Former Microsoft exec: CEO Ballmer culls internal rivals to retain power

Tuesday, January 22, 2013 8:20 am25 Comments

Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer is not the right leader…

UBS slashes Microsoft Surface estimate in half

Tuesday, January 15, 2013 11:17 amTuesday, January 15, 201335 Comments

When Microsoft next reports earnings, don’t expect Surface sales…

Cracking the China code: Microsoft vs. Apple

Friday, January 11, 2013 1:57 pmFriday, January 11, 201313 Comments

In 2011 Microsoft’s CEO bemoaned that revenue in China was about…

Steve Jobs would have drowned somebody in the Pacific Ocean if this happened at Apple

Tuesday, January 8, 2013 2:33 pm33 Comments

The geeks at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas worked themselves into a lather…

Windows 8 uptake more like Vista than Windows 7

Monday, December 3, 2012 9:48 am24 Comments

After a month on the market, Windows 8’s usage uptake resembles 2007’s Vista…

Microsoft’s next CEO: Scott Forstall?

Friday, November 30, 2012 11:14 amFriday, November 30, 201238 Comments

Forstall could get rid of the dead wood hanging around Redmond…

Ballmer: Gee, maybe should have moved quicker on tablets, but we’re innovating on a seam or something

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 4:57 pmWednesday, November 28, 201256 Comments

Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer defended his company…

Catastrophe Theory: Microsoft on the verge of a sudden collapse?

Monday, November 26, 2012 9:08 am52 Comments

Last week, usability expert Jakob Nielsen wrote a devastating critique of Windows 8…

Ballmer suggests more Microsoft-branded devices coming

Thursday, November 15, 2012 8:26 amThursday, November 15, 201231 Comments

Ballmer said Microsoft would look at more opportunities to build its own devices…

Bill Gates backed Steve Ballmer in Sinofsky ouster

Tuesday, November 13, 2012 12:16 pm21 Comments

Gates supported the move by Ballmer…

Windows head Steven Sinofsky out at Microsoft

Monday, November 12, 2012 11:05 pmTuesday, November 13, 201253 Comments

Windows and Windows Live President Steven Sinofsky will be leaving the company…

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