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Photos: Windows 7 'quicker, less annoying' than Vista

Crave The company has said it will have the release out within three years of Vista's January 2007 mainstream release, however, CEO Steve Ballmer has said he wants Windows 7 out next year. In particular, Microsoft is focused on improving the time it...

28 October 2008, 16:59

Photos: 8-year-old tests XO laptops

Crave You can browse wherever you want, even to the "dominant competitor" that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is always talking about. Our friends over at sister site CNET News.com wanted to find out how the two models of the XO-1 (One Laptop Per Child...

27 October 2008, 10:00

Microsoft CEO Ballmer: Zune for Windows Mobile

Crave A magazine interview with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer suggests that the company is planning at least the latter approach. Asked why the Zune is important to Microsoft, Ballmer told CIO magazine that it was about more than just the device itself.

Tags: zune, hardware, zune software, moment

3 October 2008, 9:22

The Ultimate Tech Celebrity Deathmatches

Crave Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer once claimed he would "f***ing kill Google," and on the day of this Deathmatch, he got his chance. Microsoft bigwig Steve Ballmer takes on Google boss Eric Schmidt. Come and witness the torment, the Superpoking, the...

7 March 2008, 7:30

Tech that's just wrong

Crave We've placed each wrongosity onto our patented 'Scale of Wrong' to show where they fit into the grand scheme of wrongness -- are they more Steve McQueen looking icey-cool or Steve Ballmer dancing like a loon?

3 March 2008, 7:23

Top ten laughably bad tech ads

Crave Steve Ballmer sells Windows 1.0You've got to love Steve Ballmer. Anyway, we've collected ten of our favourites -- in no particular order -- that made us laugh, either because they feature lycra, awful singing, pathetic old technology, Steve Ballmer...

19 September 2007, 11:00

Steve Ballmer downplays Zune phone

Crave While a Microsoft exec said last year that such a device is a possibility, CEO Steve Ballmer wasn't so optimistic when he was asked that very question last week. It's not a concept you'll ever get from us," Ballmer said while speaking at the...

Tags: cell, windows mobile, device, cell phone

26 April 2007, 8:45

'Zune phone' patent application surfaces in series of tubes

Crave Sneaky, sneaky Steve Ballmer! Crave US: There have been plenty of Zune 2.0 rumors recently -- flash memory, a 'watermelon' version this summer, and what-have-you. Now here's another one to add to the pile; Engadget recently pointed us to a 'Zune...

Tags: zune, pointed, rumors, setup

19 April 2007, 8:45

A Letter from Linuxland -- Part 1

Crave Or it might have been another stonkingly arrogant statement from Steve Ballmer -- you know, the man who's proud that he bans his kids from owning iPods and using Google. There are a million reasons to install Linux, and as many not to bother.

Tags: linux, hq, steve ballmer, windows genuine advantage

6 September 2006, 15:19

Crave Talk: Zune must go wireless

Crave Watch out consumers, here comes Steve Ballmer! You may already have seen the man's near-psychotic performance at a developers' conference where he chanted "Developers! Developers! Developers! while dashing around the stage like a shaved gorilla on...

Tags: microsoft, man, community, wi fi

27 July 2006, 11:31