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Microsoft’s Windows Phone failure was easily preventable, but the company’s culture made it unavoidable

Wednesday, July 26, 2017 3:48 pmWednesday, July 26, 201719 Comments

How could Microsoft’s Windows Phone licensing business model stand a chance against Google’s Free and Open Android?

Beleaguered Microsoft announces yet another major reorg; axes up to 3,000 employees

Thursday, July 6, 2017 4:00 pmThursday, July 6, 201726 Comments

Microsoft announced a major reorganization on Wednesday that will include thousands of layoffs…

Beleaguered Microsoft to ax ‘thousands’ more employees

Wednesday, July 5, 2017 9:57 am26 Comments

Microsoft is poised to layoff thousands of employees worldwide..

Beleaguered Microsoft axes 2,850 more employees

Friday, July 29, 2016 4:55 pmFriday, July 29, 201620 Comments

Beleaguered Microsoft said in May it would cut 1,850 jobs in its smartphone business…

Microsoft pulls plug on consumer smartphones, axes another 1,850 jobs

Wednesday, May 25, 2016 3:39 pmWednesday, May 25, 201641 Comments

Microsoft is further scaling back its flagging phone business, exiting the consumer market…

Microsoft surpasses 100 Apple Store clone mark. Still no customers.

Wednesday, May 11, 2016 10:56 amWednesday, May 11, 201623 Comments

Microsoft began its retail effort with a handful of stores in 2009 and now has more than 100 locations…

Bill Simmons: Clippers owner Steve Ballmer has shown ZERO evidence that he knows what he’s doing

Wednesday, August 26, 2015 2:28 pmWednesday, August 26, 201511 Comments

Bill Simmons, now with HBO, took to Twitter to express his views on the Los Angeles Clippers…

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…

Microsoft takes $185 million loss in Barnes & Noble Nook partnership termination

Thursday, December 4, 2014 11:28 amThursday, December 4, 201415 Comments

With Microsoft having “invested” $300 million in Barnes & Noble’s Nook Media…

Steve Balmer stands to gain $1 billion in tax benefits from L.A. Clippers purchase

Monday, October 27, 2014 1:29 pmMonday, October 27, 201424 Comments

Steve Ballmer stands to gain as much as $1bn in tax benefits…

LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer to dump team’s Apple iPads

Thursday, September 25, 2014 2:08 pmThursday, September 25, 201428 Comments

After Steve Ballmer plunked down $2 billion for the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers…

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…

Steve Ballmer’s quest for the spotlight

Wednesday, August 20, 2014 2:26 pmWednesday, August 20, 201425 Comments

We just can not get rid of this guy…

Steve Ballmer goes ape at Clippers’ Fan Festival

Monday, August 18, 2014 10:55 pmMonday, August 18, 201446 Comments

Steve Ballmer, who just vastly overpaid for the Los Angeles Clippers at $2 billion…

Monkey Boy Ballmer’s math on Apple innovation doesn’t add up

Monday, May 5, 2014 11:29 amMonday, May 5, 201432 Comments

Steve Ballmer said that most tech companies…

Bill Gates dumps Microsoft stock; Steve Ballmer now owns more MSFT shares than Gates

Saturday, May 3, 2014 1:10 pmSaturday, May 3, 201423 Comments

At current rate of sales, Gates will have no direct ownership of Microsoft shares in four years…

Losses mount for beleaguered Microsoft’s moribund Surface tablet

Monday, April 28, 2014 9:35 pmMonday, April 28, 201446 Comments

Economies of scale continued to elude Microsoft’s Surface line…

Microsoft’s game of thrones: How Ballmer and Gates finally lost favor

Sunday, March 9, 2014 8:08 pmSunday, March 9, 201433 Comments

Nadella, who succeeded Ballmer one month ago, took a step this week…

The day Ballmer went too far: Screaming ultimatum to BoD last July, either buy Nokia or I’m gone!

Wednesday, March 5, 2014 2:28 pmWednesday, March 5, 201436 Comments

As Satya Nadella puts his stamp on Microsoft Corp., he’s coming to grips…

Ballmer wishes for 10 year do-over, says Microsoft missed the mobile market

Tuesday, March 4, 2014 4:27 pmTuesday, March 4, 201454 Comments

Microsoft Corp largely missed the mobile market in the last decade…

Presence of Gates, Ballmer on Microsoft’s board repelling potential CEO candidates

Thursday, January 9, 2014 3:28 pmThursday, January 9, 201421 Comments

Ford CEO Alan Mulally flirted with Microsoft for longer than previously known…

Microsoft close to naming CEO

Wednesday, January 8, 2014 1:02 pmWednesday, January 8, 201423 Comments

Microsoft Corp. is closer to naming a new chief executive…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Microsoft employees recognize beleaguered company has lost its way

Monday, September 9, 2013 9:29 amMonday, September 9, 201324 Comments

Since mid-July, three interlocking events…

Can beleaguered Microsoft really go head-to-head with Apple?

Thursday, September 5, 2013 4:01 pmThursday, September 5, 201330 Comments

No.

Liquidation: Microsoft permanently slashes price on poor-selling ‘Surface Pro’ tablet to $799

Friday, August 30, 2013 4:01 pmFriday, August 30, 201336 Comments

Microsoft has already taken a $900 million charge on unsold Surface inventory…

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…

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