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CEO Steven Ballmer

CEO Steven Ballmer has been the chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp since 2000. He is 50 years old. Follow Mr. Ballmer and Microsoft Corp in the news and blogs or share your own opinion about the company and its leadership.

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Sales of Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows 7 operating system have been "fantastic" in Japan since its launch last month, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday. He declined to provide specific numbers for Japan, which is Microsoft's second-largest market, but said features like quicker start-up times were luring consumers to the newest version of the world's dominate software package. He added new computers were also helping attract buyers. "People don't buy operating systems, they buy computers with operating systems on them," Ballmer told reporters during a presentation in Tokyo. Windows 7 was launched last month after consumers and businesses gave a poor reception to its predecessor, ... Read Full Story
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Monday corporate spending on information technology will not recover to levels seen in recent years before the global economic slowdown. "The economy went through a set of changes on a global basis over the course of the last year which are, I think is fair to say, once in a lifetime," Ballmer told a meeting of South Korean executives in Seoul. Spending on information technology, which accounted for about half of capital expenditures in developed countries before the crisis, was unlikely to rebound fully because capital was more scarce these days, he said. "While we will see growth, we ... Read Full Story
TOKYO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday the company could look to extend its search engine partnership with Yahoo outside the United States, if it gets regulatory approval. Earlier this year Microsoft and Yahoo signed a 10-year Web search partnership to challenge Google Inc, a pact that U.S. and European antitrust regulators are evaluating. "It's possible that we will extend that partnership (with Yahoo) outside the U.S.," Ballmer told reporters at a news conference. "We will have to wait and see if we can get approval and consummate that partnership inside the U.S. first." Microsoft has said it believes ... Read Full Story
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Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer was on hand for the company's annual shareholder's meeting in Washington, and news of Windows 7 sales came up right away. While delivering the opening remarks, Ballmer said that Microsoft has sold twice as many copies of Win 7 as any previous OS in a comparable time frame. Though no actual numbers were mentioned, the good news is not completely unexpected giving the pre-order figures were through the roof . Related posts: Ballmer: Windows Mobile 7 should have been out, like, yesterday It wasn't all that long ago that Microsoft CEO... Muito obrigado, Dragon Quest: Nintendo DS sales double after ... Read Full Story
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CNET News Ballmer: Windows 7 Sales "Fantastic" PC World With Vista gone, Microsoft's CEO has a new "f-word" to describe Windows. Customers seem to agree. David Coursey Excitable Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer actually had something to be excited about at yesterday's shareholder meeting, where he announced that ... Ballmer: Microsoft Wants Back the Marketshare Apple is Taking The Mac Observer Ballmer waxes lyrical about Windows 7 double bubble sales Register Security in Windows 7: Windows Filtering Platform PC Magazine CNNMoney.com  - Wall Street Journal  - TG Daily all 148 news articles » Read Full Story
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Last week, I was shaking my head at Mark Cuban. He suggested that Microsoft pay online publishers to de-index their sites from Google. Presumably, then Bing could go out there and say "Hey, search us to find the Wall Street Journal." I scoffed. I laughed. Who would do such a thing? Apparently, Steve Ballmer would. To my utter dismay, news reports are in fact breaking that Microsoft is talking to News Corp, which recently said it was...  
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Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer told attendees at the company’s annual shareholder meeting that Windows 7 sales were astonishingly high. According to a Wall Street Journal account of the gathering, “Microsoft Corp. has sold twice as many copies of Windows 7 in its first few weeks than any previous version of the operating system,” Ballmer said. The [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other...  
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SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)--Das neue Betriebssystem Windows des US-Softwareherstellers Microsoft Corp verkauft sich laut CEO Steve Ballmer "fantastisch". Ballmer äußerte sich zu dem Betriebssystems auf einer Pressekonferenz in Tokio zehn Tage nach der  
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CXOToday.comWindows Server® 2008 R2 and Windows® 7 Benefit from AMD Virtualization ...WELT ONLINEAMD (NYSE: AMD) today congratulates Microsoft Corp. on the significant achievement of bringing the Windows® 7 and Windows Server® 2008 R2 operating systems ...Microsoft Broadens Supercomputing ReachHard OCPall 57 news articles »  
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