Q&amp;A: Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer
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Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer was in the UK for barely 24 hours this week, squeezing in meetings with the recently-appointed head of egovernment Ian Watmore and Vodafone Group chief executive Arun Sarin.
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By Benjamin J. Romano, Seattle Times  Feb. 3--Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer did a little market research, recruiting and philanthropy in one appearance before an audience of high-school students from around the country Friday.
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Spinning Steve Ballmer's comments on Vista's lagging sales, Bill Gates touts positive public feedback. In Game|Life.
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Initial coverage of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer&#39;s comments during an event in Singapore yesterday left the folks back at headquarters in Redmond trying to clarify things and put them in context.
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Speaking at a lunch meeting in Seattle on Thursday, MicrosoftÂ CEO Steve Ballmer tried to explain the difference between the words "as" and "and" when placed between the words "software" and "service."
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The announcement came as Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer opened the group&#39;s new Indian headquarters in the city of Hyderabad.
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Bill Gates gets 4 million emails a day according to Microsoft&#39;s CEO Steve Ballmer. `There are two people who probably are the number one spam recipients in the world,` Ballmer said at a Microsoft event in Singapore `Bill Gates because he is Bill Gates.
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Jeff Raikes, the president of Microsoft&#39;s Business Division, plans to retire in September, the company said on Thursday.A Microsoft employee since 1981, Raikes oversees a broad stretch of the company&#39;s product line, including its Office, Dynamics, and Exchange software. Microsoft&#39;s Business Division generated about $16 billion in annual revenue last year, or slightly less than a third of the total.&quot;There is no overstating the incredible impact Jeff has had during his amazing career at Microsoft,&quot; CEO Steve Ballmer said in a statement.Raikes will be replaced by Stephen Elop, formerly the COO at Juniper Networks. Elop also did a stint as president of worldwide field operations at Adobe Systems following its acquisition of Macromedia, where he served as president and CEO.Elop will start at Microsoft at the end of this month and take over Raikes&#39; portfolio gradually, starting with the company&#39;s Information Worker, Business Solutions, and Unified Communications businesses.With Raikes set to retire, Bob Muglia, senior vice president of Microsoft&#39;s Server and Tools business, will now report directly to Ballmer, the company said.
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BANGALORE, INDIA -- Microsoft Corp. is hiring hundreds of new staff for its operations in Hyderabad over the next 12 months, the company's chief executive officer, Steve Ballmer told reporters Monday in Bangalore, India.
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Microsoft Corp  Chief  Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday the company aims to  pursue an independent path, focusing on up to 20 smaller  acquisitions of $50 million to $1 billion each annually rather  than mega-deals.
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New Delhi, Nov. 16: Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer today asked the Indian government to spend more on information technology (IT) while showcasing the software giantâs efforts to promote technology in the country.
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Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer says the software giant is listening to customers, and wants to make the company and its employees more accountable for delivering on its plans.
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SOFTWARE &#39;MOTH Microsoft has admitted that it can&#39;t beat hackers all the time, but will do its best. That argument was quietly put forward by the softly spoken, shy and retiring, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
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Under pressure from Microsoft Corp.   investors to return a portion of the company&#039;s &#36;35  billion cash reserve and revive a flagging share price, Chief  Executive Steve Ballmer on Wednesday defended the company&#039;s  &quot;first-class problem&quot; of having too much cash.
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What&#39;s one of Steve Ballmer&#39;s biggest headaches? It&#39;s not Linux or security breaches. It&#39;s piracy, the Microsoft CEO said Wednesday.
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Microsoft's latest and supposedly greatest operating system, Vista, appears to be falling fall short of sales goals, but CEO Steve Ballmer says it's all in how you interpret the info. In Game|Life.
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And sets alarm bells ringing in open source community Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said that every user of the open source Linux system could owe his company money for using its intellectual property. The statement will confirm the worst fears of the open source community.â¦