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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…

Microsoft now dumping non-selling Surface RT tablets into schools

Wednesday, August 21, 2013 9:26 pmWednesday, August 21, 201350 Comments

Microsoft is looking to make a bigger splash in the education segment…

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…

Class-action suit filed against Microsoft over Surface tablet flop

Tuesday, August 13, 2013 4:28 pmTuesday, August 13, 201333 Comments

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

Tuesday, August 6, 2013 5:00 pmTuesday, August 13, 201356 Comments

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

Tuesday, July 30, 2013 10:00 pmTuesday, July 30, 201369 Comments

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

Monday, July 29, 2013 1:29 pmMonday, July 29, 201360 Comments

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has finally admitted the obvious…

The irrelevance of beleaguered Microsoft

Friday, July 26, 2013 10:02 amFriday, July 26, 201328 Comments

Beleaguered Microsoft’s share of connected devices has collapsed…

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…

Beleaguered Microsoft shares hit by biggest sell-off in 13 years; $36 billion chopped off company value

Friday, July 19, 2013 6:01 pmFriday, July 19, 201379 Comments

Microsoft Corp shares fell more than 12 percent on Friday…

Weak Windows PC market catches up to Microsoft

Friday, July 19, 2013 10:01 amFriday, July 19, 201324 Comments

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

Thursday, July 18, 2013 6:08 pmThursday, September 5, 201355 Comments

Microsoft’s fourth quarter earnings and sales missed expectations by a wide margin…

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…

Microsoft’s moribund Windows RT rasps out death rattle

Tuesday, July 9, 2013 3:31 pmTuesday, July 9, 201332 Comments

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

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…

Microsoft brings back ‘start’ button in attempt to reverse declining Windows sales

Thursday, May 30, 2013 1:02 pmThursday, May 30, 201368 Comments

Microsoft Corp is bringing back the Windows ‘start’ button…

Xbox One might not be the game changer Microsoft claims

Thursday, May 23, 2013 5:03 pm39 Comments

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)

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…

The real reason Microsoft’s Windows Phone is failing

Thursday, April 4, 2013 3:03 pmThursday, April 4, 201327 Comments

It’s no secret: Windows Phone sales stink…

Why Microsoft’s Windows 8 is an even bigger flop than Windows Vista

Tuesday, April 2, 2013 10:28 am41 Comments

Windows 8 is doing significantly worse than Microsoft’s biggest failure, Windows Vista…

Can Microsoft executives really be that stupid?

Thursday, March 7, 2013 1:01 pmThursday, March 7, 201338 Comments

So here we go again…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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