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- Ballmer touts Windows 7 features
- At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed that Windows 7 is going to be a major release, not just a Vista update. He says the new Windows will have a better user interface, information management tools, and performance. It isn't practical to wait for Windows...
- Tags: Information Management, Microsoft Windows 7, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Strategy, Software, Management, Ballmer, Microsoft, Gartner, Vista, Windows 7, user interface, touch, compatibility
- Videos 2008-10-17
- Microsoft: Expect Windows installed base to hit 1 billion by mid-2008
- The Windows installed base will hit the 1 billion mark by the end of Microsoft's fiscal 2008 (which ends on June 30), according to Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO."There will be more PCs running Windows than automobiles at that point," Ballmer told attendees of the company's annual Financial Analyst Meeting FAM...
- Tags: Windows client, Research, Corporate strategy, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Ballmer: Caught between a software rock and a services hard place
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is not one to make concessions. He has laughed about Linux's prospects. He has pooh-poohed the iPhone. He has called Google bloated.But on July 10, during his keynote address at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, Ballmer came the closest I've ever heard him to admitting...
- Tags: Xbox Live, Windows Server 2008/ Windows Server Longhorn, Windows Live, Vista, Office Live, CRM Live, Corporate strategy, Channel
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- D5: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on the hot seat
- For the opening session at the D conference this morning, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that his company was a lot more nimble today than when it had 30 people. He was responding to a question from conference co-host Walt Mossberg how the company deals with huge scale of the...
- Tags: D5, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- Software 2007: Ballmer touts Office for composite apps
- At the Software 2007 conference in Santa Clara, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer paced across the stage explaining Microsofts software + services platform strategy to the crowd of IT execs and software vendors and promoting the business value of Office Business Applications OBAs, which uses Office as a front end for...
- Tags: Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, Office 2.0, Microsoft, General, ERP, Enterprise 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Vista sales strong: Ballmer can breathe a sigh of relief
- The reports are in: Microsoft had a strong Q3 FY 2007. Microsoft attributed solid results to stronger than believed Windows Vista and Office 2007 sales. Xbox sales were way off for the quarter, and the online services business dove further into the red. But Vista and Office 2007 triumphed over...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Office, Office 2007, Vista, Windows client
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Ballmer: SaaS to have a major impact on businesses, not just consumers
- Microsoft is expecting Web 2.0 and software-as-a-service SaaS to "have as profound an impact on the business market as on the consumer market," said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Ballmer addressed a group of 80 or so Microsoft-identified "IT Pro community leaders" during a day-long Townhall Event on the Redmond...
- Tags: Search, Research, Windows Live, Web 2.0, Vista, Office Live, Google, CRM Live, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Dynamics Dreaming: Steve, Satya, and Succession
- A few nights ago I had the strangest dream. Microsoft had finally decided to go all out and make Dynamics its flagship product – the horse that pulls the cart, the engine that drives the train – instead of the other way around. And so in my dream – I...
- Tags: Enterprise software, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
- Ballmer gets intense talking Microsoft strategy
- CEO discusses his company's culture at Stanford addressSpeaking at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business on March 15, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer elaborates on what he thinks makes a good leader, and the kinds of employees the software giant wants in its workplace.
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., strategy
- Videos 2007-03-20
- Ballmer's take on Google: Milking one good idea
- Worth watching: Speaking at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that Google is still in an early phase, in which it can milk its "one good idea" effectively. The question is does Google have an encore, another huge and profitable component of its business. Microsoft...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, Google Inc., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-03-16
- SharePoint: The next big 'operating system' from Microsoft?
- Many industry pundits have speculated as to whether Windows Vista is the last big-bang release of Windows. (The answer, as Microsoft officials have repeatedly stated, is no.) I think theyre asking the wrong question. Instead, why not ask whether Windows will be the center of Microsofts universe going...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Office, Office 2007, SharePoint Server, Dynamics ERP, Dynamics CRM, CRM Live
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Ballmer: Novell deal proves open source needs to 'respect IP rights'
- The same week that Microsoft issued a press release providing further details about some of the technological advances that will result from the November 2006 technology agreement between Novell and Microsoft, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Wall Street what he really thinks the deal means to Microsoft. During a...
- Tags: Novell, App Compatibility, Linux, Windows server, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-02-16
- Ballmer's list: Microsoft's CEO shares his top nine Microsoft growth picks
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has come up with a list of the nine "opportunities" where he believes Microsoft can sustain a half billion or more in new margin growth over the next three years. On February 15, Ballmer shared that list with Wall Street analysts and shareholders who participated...
- Tags: Anti-piracy, Corporate strategy, Office, Office Live, OGA, SQL Server, WGA, Windows client, Windows Live, Windows Mobile, Windows server, Xbox, Zune
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- Ballmer to Wall Street: Temper your Windows Vista projections
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told a group of Wall Street analysts and shareholders that many of their projections for Windows Vista were "overly aggressive." Ballmer made his remarks during a forecast-update meeting with Wall Street analysts on February 15, Ballmer wasnt sounding a sales-warning alarm so much as...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Vista, Windows client
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- One man can end the Microsoft-Linux feud
- Bill Gates.And I think he will.I dont think its a coincidence, or a mere marketing choice, that caused Gates to pop up as the public face of the Windows Vista launch last week, after publicly retiring six months earlier. I dont think its coincidence that Gates wife, Melinda, has suddenly...
- Tags: General, Legal, Linux, Microsoft, Microsoft Corp., Patents, Software Licensing
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- Microsoft: Steve Ballmer sells to retail in NYC
- Steve Ballmer is Microsoft’s top salesperson. This morning, in New York City, he sold Microsoft Retail Solutions to the retail industry, big time.Ballmer, Microsoft Corp. CEO, addressed the National Retail Federation NRF Annual Convention, delivering the keynote of “Retail’s Big Show 2007” to an audience offering “the highest concentration of...
- Tags: Business Models, Microsoft, Enterprise, Brands, ecommerce, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft&rsquo, s
- Blog posts 2007-01-15
- Ballmer: Palm and BlackBerry are niche players
- Mike Ricciuti, CNET News.com, had a chance to sit down and chat with Steve Ballmer about Life after Vista and on page 3 of the conversation we find some talk about mobile devices. When asked to talk a bit more about Windows Mobile, Ballmer stated: When it comes to...
- Tags: RIM BlackBerry, palmOne Inc., niche player, Microsoft, Nokia, BlackBerry, Smartphone, Symbian, Windows Mobile
- Blog posts 2006-12-08
- What I learned at the Microsoft Vista business launch
- Were there any surprises left for Microsofts business launch of Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 on November 30? Surprisingly, there were a few. As expected, Microsoft made available to its volume licensees the final Windows Vista and Office 2007 bits, as marked by its "New Day for Business" launch...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office, SharePoint Server, Office 2007, Office, Windows client, Vista
- Blog posts 2006-11-30
- Vendor opacity and open source
- One of the great games of IBM, back in the day, was to be opaque. The company kept its strategy to itself, announcing moves without offering real direction, and so an enormous "IBM-ology" industry emerged to explain, speculate, and advise customers. Microsoft adopted this into its DNA quite early. The...
- Tags: General, Development, Linux, Enterprise Policy, Legal, Strategy, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2006-11-21
- Ballmer touts Vista upgrades
- Today's PC will get tomorrow's WindowsIn a face-to-face meeting with CNET News.com, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks up the upcoming version of Windows and says any PCs that ship between now and launch of Vista will be able to upgrade.
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Microsoft Windows Vista, Ballmer
- Videos 2006-10-25
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