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• Ballmer says Windows installed base will top a billion by the end of 2008

  Published: July 27, 2007, 2:04 pm

  Tags: Ballmer, Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, Steveballmer, Windows

  Laptops Microsoft's Steve Ballmer seems confident that the company is headed for a fairly big milestone in the near future, telling attendees at the company's analyst day meeting yesterday that he expects the Windows installed base to reach one billion by the end of fiscal year 2008. As Ballmer was quick to point out, that makes more

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• financial results

  Published: August 4, 2007, 9:48 pm

  Tags: Web, Phrases, Technology, Financial Quotes, Quotes, Financial Sayings, Economic Qoutes, Steve Ballmer, Sayings, Blog

  Look at the product pipeline, look at the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Microsoft (MSFT) can't compete with Google (GOOG), resorts to courts and PR

  Published: September 24, 2007, 5:35 am

  Tags: Bill Gates, Billgates, Burston Marsteller, Burstonmarsteller, Doubleclick, Goog, Msft, Online Advertising, Onlineadvertising, Public Relations, Publicrelations, Steve Ballmer, Steveballmer

  But current Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer lacks Gates' competitive chops, so he's struggling to use the means of a second rate competitor against the market leader, Google. Those clumsy means will only make Microsoft look bad. Peter Cohan is president of Peter S. Cohan & Associates,. He also teaches management at Babson College and edits The

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• CEO Pay: Larry Ellison is overpaid, while Steve Ballmer is unmotivated

  Published: October 1, 2007, 6:29 pm

  Tags: Ceo Pay, Larry Ellison, Microsoft, Oracle, Steve Ballmer

  Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, thinks Larry Ellison, his equivalent at Oracle, is overpaid. Ballmer says of Oracle's compensation: "I find it interesting and probably not that considered a decision to do what [Oracle have] done." (Ellison received about $74 million, while Ballmer received less than a million dollars.) Which is probably true, but

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• CE-Oh no he didn't! Part XLIV: Ballmer calls Ellison overpaid, kettle black

  Published: October 2, 2007, 10:01 am

  Tags: Ce Oh, Ce Oh No He Didn T, Ce Ohnohedidn T, Ceoh, Larry Ellison, Larryellison, Microsoft, Oracle, Rich, Steve Ballmer, Steveballmer, Stupidly Rich, Stupidlyrich

  ones. Apply those numbers to Steve Ballmer and Larry Ellison respectively, and now consider that Ballmer is complaining about the latter's yearly figure. According to Forbes, Ellison has consistently hit the top ten of CEO compensation list, and is unarguably the most well paid CEO of a technology company, but does that give Ballmer any right to

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• Quotable: "There can't be any more deep technology ...

  Published: October 2, 2007, 5:36 pm

  Tags: Facebook, Microsoft, Quotable, Steve Ballmer

  "There can't be any more deep technology in Facebook than what dozens of people could write in a couple of years. That's for sure." -- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Of course! Steve, we eagerly await Microsoft's Facebook killer. [Times Online]

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• Your Privacy Is An Illusion: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer slams Google ...

  Published: October 8, 2007, 7:00 pm

  Tags: Gmail, Google, Hotmail, Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, Your Privacy An Illusion

  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer slams Google because they "read your email" to provide contextual ads in Gmail and Microsoft's Hotmail doesn't. Oh Steve, you're just bitter because Google got away with something you never could. And its ad-targeting software is smarter than yours. [CRN]

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• Come to Crazy Ballmer's OS Warehouse to Get an Insane Deal!

  Published: October 9, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: Software, Ads, Microsoft, Old School, Software, Steve Ballmer, Windows

  proof that Microsoft exec Steve Ballmer is legitimately insane, here's an ad(?) for Windows 1.0 where he "acts" like a crazy used car salesman, listing off the amazing features of his shiny new OS (it comes with Reversi?!). It's fun to see while we're coming up on the 22nd anniversary of the first Windows, and also interesting to note that

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• financial results

  Published: August 4, 2007, 9:47 pm

  Tags: Web, Phrases, Technology, Financial Quotes, Quotes, Financial Sayings, Economic Qoutes, Steve Ballmer, Sayings, Blog

  Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.Steve Ballmer

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• Transitions: Microsoft's sex change

  Published: October 10, 2007, 9:01 am

  Tags: Exclusive, Feature, Gawker, Gizmodo, Jezebel, Lifehacker, Megan Wallent, Michael Wallent, Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, Top, Transitions

  white-boy-dancing CEO Steve Ballmer -- is a thing of the past. What's prized now is a mellower meritocracy, where the best ideas bubble up to the top through managerial encouragement and support. He says the best compliment he's gotten from his charges recently is being called "Coach," one of the most nurturing labels one can put on a

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• Analyst / mother vents Vista frustrations to Ballmer

  Published: October 11, 2007, 10:22 am

  Tags: Ballmer, Microsoft, Software, Steve Ballmer, Steveballmer, Vista, Windows

  under: Desktops, LaptopsSteve Ballmer has been doing quite a lot of talking lately, and his most recent noteworthy conversation came when he addressed an analyst and mother who was noticeably displeased with Windows Vista. During Mr. Ballmer's appearance at the Gartner Inc. conference in Orlando, Florida, Yvonne Genovese took the liberty of

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• Quotable: "In world search and advertising, Google ...

  Published: October 11, 2007, 6:26 pm

  Tags: Google, Microsoft, Quotable, Search, Steve Ballmer

  -- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer states the obvious at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo expo in Orlando. Gosh, Microsoft executives have been noting how they have their work cut out for them for years. Here's an idea, guys: How about actually doing some of that work, instead of just talking about how much there is? [News.com]

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• Rumormonger: Steve Ballmer and Mark Zuckerberg set hotel rendezvous

  Published: October 12, 2007, 7:53 pm

  Tags: Exclusive, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, Nerdspotting, Rumormonger, Social Networks, Steve Ballmer, Top

  Zuckerberg and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer be so foolish as to pick the Stanford Park Hotel as their meeting place for a final round of negotiations? The hotel, practically at the intersection of El Camino Real, the Main Street of Silicon Valley, and Sand Hill Road, the center of venture capital, is as public a spot as one could choose. And

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• Windows Vista: Is it irritating you?

  Published: October 13, 2007, 11:24 am

  Tags: Feminism Gender, Politics News, Technology Web, Steve Ballmer, Windows Vista, Yvonne Genovese

  Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer's appeard at the Gartner Inc. Symposium ITxpo conference in Orlando earlier this week. He was interviewed on stage during a conference forum by Yvonne Genovese and fellow analyst David Smith. Genovese told Ballmer she'd purchased Vista on the recommendation of her 13 year old daughter. She used it for two days and

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• Microsoft: Ballmer Describes Relationship with Gates as "Husband-Wife", Brings Wrong Images to our Minds

  Published: October 15, 2007, 9:16 am

  Tags: Ballmer, Gates, Microsoft, Steve Ballmer

  Ballmer has revealed that his relationship with the world's most famous Zune owner, Bill Gates, is akin to that of a husband and wife. In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, everyone's favorite chief exec talked about "the husband-wife-brother thing," he has goin' on with Bill Gates. And then he just took the analogy one step too far: "We

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