CEO Steven Ballmer

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

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

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

Microsoft’s new Windows 7 operating system is selling quite well, according to CEO Steve Ballmer. In remarks at a press conference in Tokyo Thursday, Ballmer said that Windows 7’s first 10 days at market have been more successful than those of any of its predecessors. “We’ve had a great response here in Japan,” Ballmer said . Read the original: Well, What Did You Expect Him to Say? Windows 7 Is Selling Poorly? [Digital Daily] Read Full Story

PC World – Initial sales of Windows 7, Microsoft’s newest operating system, were “fantastic” in Japan and helped spur PC sales in the country, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday. View post: (PC World)"> (PC World)"> (PC World)">Windows 7 Seeing ‘fantastic’ Sales in Japan, Says Ballmer (PC World) Read Full Story