It’s hard not to feel a little bit bad for Steve Ballmer today…
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Microsoft stock surges on Ballmer retirement news
Stock futures have moved into positive territory just ahead…
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months as BoD initiates succession process
Well, it’s finally happened…
Microsoft now dumping non-selling Surface RT tablets into schools
Microsoft is looking to make a bigger splash in the education segment…
Turns out, nobody wants to touch Windows 8 (and Microsoft is screwed)
Windows 8’s flaws have resulted in the worst of all worlds…
Class-action suit filed against Microsoft over Surface tablet flop
The law firm Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd has filed a class-action suit against Microsoft…
Desperate Microsoft cuts Surface Pro tablet prices; could signal even more losses
Just over two weeks after Microsoft (MSFT) took a $900 million charge…
Microsoft’s Surface sales figures are in, and they’re a total disaster
Microsoft’s total Surface revenue for all of fiscal 2013 amounted to just…
Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer admits ‘iPad killer’ Surface RT tablet a huge mistake
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has finally admitted the obvious…
The irrelevance of beleaguered Microsoft
Beleaguered Microsoft’s share of connected devices has collapsed…
Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to speed up
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
Microsoft Corp shares fell more than 12 percent on Friday…
Weak Windows PC market catches up to Microsoft
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
Microsoft’s fourth quarter earnings and sales missed expectations by a wide margin…
Beleaguered Nokia reports lower-than-expected revenue, Needham downgrades
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
Neither Microsoft nor Nokia can hide from the very, very ugly truth…
Nielsen: Microsoft pays the most to market its products
Microsoft has not been shy in the past to spend its money on advertising…
Microsoft’s moribund Windows RT rasps out death rattle
The death knell is sounding for Microsoft’s Windows RT operating system…
Former Xbox manager: To save Microsoft, Ballmer and thousands of others must go
When Jennie Locati heard that Microsoft is looking to restructure the company, yet again…
Microsoft is reorganizing – again
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
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is working on what is likely to turn into a significant restructuring…
Microsoft brings back ‘start’ button in attempt to reverse declining Windows sales
Microsoft Corp is bringing back the Windows ‘start’ button…
Xbox One might not be the game changer Microsoft claims
Microsoft’s Xbox One is ugly at best, with limited functionality that will prevent most consumers…
Microsoft offers no apology for Windows 8, promises better with Windows Blue (Screen of Death)
With Windows 8, Microsoft ignored the basic tenets of change management…
Windows 8ista: Microsoft admits failure
One of the most prominent admissions of failure since Coca-Cola’s New Coke fiasco…
How Tim Cook is like Steve Ballmer
It’s worth pointing out that Apple is not the only big tech company…
Stick a fork in Microsoft’s Windows, it’s done
Calling the latest operating system a ‘failure’ and Microsoft’s leaders ‘idiots’…
Microsoft’s stock takes beating after putrid Windows PC shipment reports
Microsoft’s stock took a beating in trading today…
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer deserves the Ron Johnson treatment
Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer, has had more than enough time…
The real reason Microsoft’s Windows Phone is failing
It’s no secret: Windows Phone sales stink…
Why Microsoft’s Windows 8 is an even bigger flop than Windows Vista
Windows 8 is doing significantly worse than Microsoft’s biggest failure, Windows Vista…
Can Microsoft executives really be that stupid?
So here we go again…
Windows 8 uptake more like Vista than Windows 7
After a month on the market, Windows 8’s usage uptake resembles 2007’s Vista…
Ballmer suggests more Microsoft-branded devices coming
Ballmer said Microsoft would look at more opportunities to build its own devices…
Microsoft’s $6.2 billion stumble starts crucial financial year
An ugly first week for Microsoft Corp’s new financial year…
How Apple pushed Microsoft to create its ‘Surface’ tablets
Appel basically forced Microsoft to concoct their Blurry Ass Tablet™ efforts…
Jason Schwarz: Top 10 reasons why Microsoft’s Surface is DOA
The only explanation for Ballmer still being the CEO of Microsoft is that he must have photos on Bill Gates…
Ballmer: ‘We’ve got to beat’ Apple anyway, so let’s build retail stores right next to them
If you thought that Microsoft was simply out to copy Apple’s popular retail experiment…