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Vista party kicks off in New York

News The festivities moved indoors for a midday lunch at the trendy Cipriani restaurant, where Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer toasted the launch along with executives from some of the largest hardware companies.

30 January 2007, 9:12 > More matches in News

Gates to step down from Microsoft

News Gates will work side-by-side with Ozzie throughout the transition period, but that a year from now, Ozzie and Mundie will begin reporting directly to CEO Steve Ballmer. Ballmer took the opportunity to characterise Gates' move as a broader shift for...

16 June 2006, 11:51 > More matches in News

Microsoft may borrow to fund Yahoo bid

News At the same meeting, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said the offer for Yahoo was generous and he expects Yahoo's board and shareholders to agree to the buyout quickly. We trust the Yahoo board and the Yahoo shareholders will join with us...

Tags: board, stock, yahoo, windows vista

5 February 2008, 9:19 > More matches in News

Gates shows off Vista in CES speech

News Microsoft demonstrated the HD games with Electronics Arts' Fight Night Round 3, which matched up Gates as Muhammad Ali with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer as Joe Frazier. Gates landed some early punches while Ballmer started slowly.

5 January 2006, 11:27 > More matches in News

Can anyone kill the iPod this year?

News We've got a lot of work to do," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in an interview with CNET.co.uk's sister site News.com. Apple CEO Steve Jobs' bet that consumers would respond to a simple offer of 79p songs that can be easily downloaded to his iPod...

9 January 2006, 10:59 > More matches in News

Motorola unveils Bluetooth sunglasses, not iTunes phone

News Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer attended the product release event via video to tout the benefits of Microsoft's mobile operating system for the new Q device. Steve Jobs is not going to jump out of a cake.but it's real, and it is happening.

26 July 2005, 10:01 > More matches in News

Microsoft's Office Live exits beta

News The technological shift to Web-based applications and services will be the most significant development of the decade, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said at the company's annual shareholders meeting on Tuesday.

16 November 2006, 10:43 > More matches in News

Ten tech YouTube clips you shouldn't miss

News Here someone has strung together memorable Microsoft clips, such as Bill Gates getting hit by a pie, the infamous CES disaster and the Steve Ballmer developer rant. Current TV, an Internet channel, flashed back to this prophetic 1981 news package...

21 July 2006, 11:14 > More matches in News

Microsoft: 1 million Zunes sold by June

News In an earlier interview with CNET.co.uk's sister site News.com, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer acknowledged that despite the company's satisfaction with the way things are going with Zune, it still has a lot to do.

7 December 2006, 9:32 > More matches in News

Ballmer holds forth on car insurance and gay rights

News If Steve Ballmer hadn't decided to take his college buddy up on a job offer as Microsoft's bookkeeper, he figures he probably would have ended up selling car insurance. That insight was part of a wide-ranging chat Ballmer had with a packed hall of...

13 May 2005, 9:58 > More matches in News

Ballmer: 'We'll catch Google'

News Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has confessed the software giant's .Net strategy has come to a standstill, says he's accepted SQL Server's shortcomings and vowed to keep fighting search giant Google. In the country for two days of talks with employees...

28 June 2005, 8:39 > More matches in News

Ballmer wants shorter wait for Windows

News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer wrapped up a meeting with financial analysts on Thursday by promising that the company would make sure it releases new Windows versions more quickly. Despite the desire to make Windows releases more frequent...

28 July 2006, 10:31 > More matches in News

Ballmer cosies up to mobile operators

News During his keynote address at Europe's biggest mobile phone trade show, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer emphasised the importance of partnerships between his company and the mobile industry. During his speech on Tuesday at the 3GSM World...

15 February 2006, 10:13 > More matches in News

Ballmer: Mod chips threaten Xbox

News Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said that his company may pull its Xbox game console from the Australian market because of a court decision that legitimises "mod chips" for hackers, according to an Australian newspaper.

22 October 2002, 8:00 > More matches in News

What's on Gates and Ballmer's Xboxes?

News When Steve Ballmer fires up his Xbox 360, he reaches for the NBA 2K6 basketball game. After trying to catch up with Sony in the last round of the console wars, Gates and Ballmer said they are happy to be well ahead of Sony's PlayStation 3, which is...

9 January 2006, 10:02 > More matches in News