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Tag: Steve Ballmer

Microsoft Windows RT and 8 sales: Signs point to a major flop

Monday, November 12, 2012 4:00 pm60 Comments

All signs point to the Surface with Windows RT selling slowly…

Ballmer: Microsoft Surface sales ‘modest’

Monday, November 12, 2012 2:02 pmMonday, November 12, 201240 Comments

Sales of Microsoft’s new Surface tablet have been ‘modest,’ according to Monkey Boy Ballmer…

Ballmer inexplicably calls Apple a ‘low-volume player’

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 3:42 pmTuesday, October 30, 201278 Comments

Chief Executive Steve Ballmer is betting on one of Microsoft Corp.’s busiest years,,,

Cringely: Six years from now Microsoft’s Windows will be dead or free

Monday, October 29, 2012 3:20 pmMonday, October 29, 201265 Comments

The real issue here isn’t the software at all but the platform…

Ballmer on tablets: ‘I don’t think anyone has done a product that I see customers wanting’

Saturday, October 27, 2012 1:36 pmSaturday, October 27, 201296 Comments

Microsoft CEO Steven Ballmer trumpeted the company’s new Surface tablet…

Tim Bajarin: Windows 8 is ‘welcome to the past’ instead of ‘welcome to the future’

Friday, October 26, 2012 4:01 pmFriday, October 26, 201241 Comments

Once Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage…

The time is here for OS X to put a serious dent in Windows

Friday, October 26, 2012 3:00 pmFriday, October 26, 201255 Comments

With the Mac having around 13% of the computer market share in the U.S. and Microsoft making one boo-boo after another…

Ballmer: We’re going to make more Microsoft-branded hardware

Thursday, October 25, 2012 1:16 pmThursday, October 25, 201246 Comments

Microsoft’s chief boss has confirmed he plans to release more devices…

Gizmodo reviews Microsoft Surface RT: Do not buy; inferior to Apple’s iPad; the worst of both worlds

Thursday, October 25, 2012 12:51 pm43 Comments

Microsoft’s Surface RT is not worth your paycheck…

Analyst: Microsoft’s Surface RT tablet priced too high, could be the next Zune

Thursday, October 18, 2012 5:02 pm37 Comments

Surface’s high pricing could prove to be a fatal mistake and relegate it to be a niche…

Beleaguered Nokia posts loss; says holiday quarter will be challenging

Thursday, October 18, 2012 9:30 am4 Comments

Nokia reported smaller-than-expected losses for the third quarter on Thursday…

Apple likely moved ‘iPad mini’ launch to screw up Microsoft

Monday, October 15, 2012 11:20 amMonday, October 15, 201251 Comments

Much to the chagrin of Apple aficionados, October 10 came and went and the press did not…

Ballmer: ‘Windows 8 is going to do great; It’s a fantastic product’

Monday, September 17, 2012 7:33 pmMonday, September 17, 201294 Comments

This fall, Microsoft is embarking on one of its biggest series of launches ever…

Microsoft reports first quarterly loss since going public in 1986

Thursday, July 19, 2012 5:38 pmThursday, July 19, 201262 Comments

Microsoft Corp reported its first quarterly loss as a public company…

Ballmer on Apple’s Mac, Steve Jobs, and why Microsoft’s lost decade is a myth

Wednesday, July 11, 2012 3:00 pmWednesday, July 11, 201284 Comments

Steve Ballmer says that the Mac was a great computer and all that, but…

Microsoft’s Buffoon, er… Ballmer throws down gauntlet against Apple

Tuesday, July 10, 2012 10:49 amTuesday, July 10, 201277 Comments

Declaring that Microsoft and its partners had in the past…

Microsoft’s $6.2 billion stumble starts crucial financial year

Friday, July 6, 2012 5:38 pmFriday, July 6, 201248 Comments

An ugly first week for Microsoft Corp’s new financial year…

8 reasons why Microsoft needs to dump Steve Ballmer

Thursday, June 28, 2012 1:37 pm53 Comments

Ballmer took over Microsoft 12 years ago when the stock was about $60…

Dear Microsoft, Steve Balmer and Bill Gates: What is up with your obsession with keyboards?

Thursday, June 28, 2012 11:39 am48 Comments

The Surface is, perhaps, a bit too aptly named…

How Apple pushed Microsoft to create its ‘Surface’ tablets

Monday, June 25, 2012 10:21 amMonday, June 25, 201226 Comments

Appel basically forced Microsoft to concoct their Blurry Ass Tablet™ efforts…

Jason Schwarz: Top 10 reasons why Microsoft’s Surface is DOA

Friday, June 22, 2012 1:26 pmFriday, June 22, 201251 Comments

The only explanation for Ballmer still being the CEO of Microsoft is that he must have photos on Bill Gates…

Microsoft previews own ‘Surface’ tablet

Monday, June 18, 2012 8:49 pmTuesday, June 19, 2012138 Comments

Microsoft Corp unveiled a tablet called Surface on Monday…

Five CEOs who should have already been fired

Tuesday, May 15, 2012 2:32 pmTuesday, May 15, 201236 Comments

These guys should have been fired long before this week…

Orangutans at Miami zoo use Apple iPads to communicate

Wednesday, May 9, 2012 10:27 am24 Comments

The 8-year-old twins love their iPad. They draw, play games and expand their vocabulary…

Microsoft to open retail store by Apple Store The Domain in Austin, Texas

Tuesday, February 7, 2012 1:01 pmTuesday, February 7, 201253 Comments

The new Microsoft retail store will open in northern Austin’s Domain shopping center, where Apple…

Microsoft said to again reorganize marketing operations; may include hundreds of job cuts

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 9:30 amWednesday, February 1, 201225 Comments

Microsoft Corp. is making plans for a companywide restructuring of its marketing operations…

Madison, Wisconsin schools buy 1,400 Apple iPads – using Microsoft’s money

Saturday, January 28, 2012 11:48 amSaturday, January 28, 201215 Comments

Madison teachers will soon be handing out Apples to students…

Ballmer: ‘We’ve got to beat’ Apple anyway, so let’s build retail stores right next to them

Friday, January 13, 2012 11:03 amFriday, January 13, 201282 Comments

If you thought that Microsoft was simply out to copy Apple’s popular retail experiment…

Microsoft is telegraphing bad news

Wednesday, January 11, 2012 6:45 pmWednesday, January 11, 201234 Comments

Yesterday, at an analyst meeting at CES in Las Vegas, Microsoft warned…

Microsoft CEO Ballmer crashes and burns in final CES keynote

Tuesday, January 10, 2012 3:36 pmTuesday, January 10, 201239 Comments

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has flopped his final keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show…

Bill Gates rules out Microsoft CEO return; claims Microsoft didn’t shamelessly rip-off Apple

Thursday, December 15, 2011 11:01 amThursday, December 15, 201139 Comments

Bill Gates today ruled out ever returning to the helm of Microsoft…

Microsoft may stop keynoting CES after 2012 to – gasp! – emulate Apple

Friday, December 9, 2011 4:02 pmFriday, December 9, 201132 Comments

Microsoft may take a page from Apple and step back from major trade shows…

IDC: Windows 8 will be an upgrade bust on PCs, disappointing on tablets, too

Monday, December 5, 2011 3:35 pm26 Comments

Windows 8 isn’t even in beta yet, but IDC is already predicting that very few PC owners…

Microsoft’s next mistake: Office for iPad

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 4:22 pmWednesday, November 30, 201151 Comments

Microsoft is reportedly working on rolling out Microsoft Office in iPad form…

Peggy Noonan applies Steve Jobs’ business philosophy to US government

Wednesday, November 23, 2011 9:22 am46 Comments

There is an arresting moment in Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs…

CEO Steve Ballmer’s popularity among Microsoft shareholders on the wane

Friday, November 18, 2011 10:09 amFriday, November 18, 201127 Comments

Ballmer was the only Microsoft board member that didn’t receive…

Analyst: Gates and Ballmer should seek more artistic thinking to compete with Apple

Tuesday, October 25, 2011 6:44 pmTuesday, October 25, 201127 Comments

Microsoft has been shaped in the image of Gates and Ballmer…

With Yahoo’s Bartz out, these 4 tech CEOs should have their golden parachutes strapped on tightly

Wednesday, September 7, 2011 1:44 pm21 Comments

With Carol Bartz out at Yahoo!, the list of CEOs on the brink shrinks to four…

Microsoft CEO Ballmer spends two days unsuccessfully trying to clean Windows PC malware

Monday, June 5, 2006 2:56 pmWednesday, February 5, 201474 Comments

Microsoft executives love telling stories against each other. Here’s one that platforms vice-president Jim Allchin…

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