Microsoft CEO defends company investments
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Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told investors Wednesday to be patient as the world&#039;s largest software company spends time and money developing new products and entering new markets.
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Jerry Yang explained his companyâs rejection of Microsoftâs buyout offer in a letter to shareholders late Wednesday outlining why he believed the bid was too low.
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Although Microsoft Corp. has long been criticized for security flaws in its software, those days -- while not exactly over -- are receding, according to Scott Charney, corporate vice president of the company's Trustworthy Computing initiative. This is the second half of Charney's interview with Computerworld.
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Jay Bazuzi: &quot;I work for Microsoft. I own plenty of Microsoft stock. I want Microsoft to succeed. But right now Google is kicking our butt.
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Whether Microsoft intends to take its case to Yahoo shareholders, and maybe raise its offer in so doing, remains well within the company's rights. Nonetheless, Bill Gates said, at the very least, that a price hike wasn't necessary.
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Microsoft Corp.&#39;s chief executive believes it&#39;s naive to suggest the software giant can eliminate all security vulnerabilities in its various products even though engineers are trying hard to do so.
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Windows computing environments are cheaper, more secure, and lower risk than those based on Linux and open-source software, CEO Steve Ballmer asserts in an E-mail sent Wednesday to Microsoft&#39;s customers and partners.
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A top Microsoft executive defended desktop application software, the source of the company&#39;s revenue for three decades, arguing on Tuesday that even services-based companies such as Google still need it.
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DETROIT -- A top Ford Motor Co. executive defended the company's revised turnaround plan against criticism that it did not go far enough, saying yesterday that moving any faster would end up costing the automaker more.
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Microsoft&#39;s financial chief said this week that the software giant is more likely to make big acquisitions than it has been in the past.
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In a keynote address this morning to the American Antitrust Institute in Washington, D.C., AMD CEO Hector Ruiz gave attendees what he described as "an idea of what it's like to do business day in and day out when you are competing against an abusive monopolist."  While Ruiz reiterated many familiar allegations against Intel, he at one point compared it against Google and Microsoft as examples of companies that thrive in the absence of monopolies.
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LONDON--Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, speaking to a gathering of reporters here, didn&#39;t pass up the opportunity to take several digs at archrival Apple Computer.
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The economic rebound might be sluggish, but technology investments matter more than ever. That's what three of the industry's biggest CEOs told 6,500 attendees last week at the Gartner Symposium and Information Technology Expo, one of the biggest annual gatherings of tech professionals. Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers, Intel CEO Craig Barrett and Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy also met with USA TODAY reporter Michelle Kessler to sound off on new technologies, stock options and globalization. Here's what they had to say, edited for clarity and space.
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates speaks Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2004 at Microsoft Corp.&#39;s annual shareholders meeting in Bellevue, Wash.
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A top European Union judge challenged the EU executive's reasoning in its antitrust court battle with Microsoft Corp. Friday, questioning why it opposed the U.S. software giant's setting industry standards.
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Europe's latest shot across Microsoft's bow shouldn't faze investors.
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Microsoft's CEO tells financial analysts that the company has a plan to take on its major rival. Yahoo could speed up the plan, but it will build its ad business, regardless.