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ZDNet - Found Jul. 2, 2009 Theyre owed an apology from Steve Ballmer - and a free copy of Vista SP3 Windows 7. The backstory Vistas market failure was not a surprise... Windows 7 Beta: The 5 Most Important Things Microsoft Did Right - NetworkWorld Win 7 vs Snow Leopard: How much do upgrades really cost? - ZDNet Vista Ultimate users fume, rant over Windows 7 deals - NetworkWorld Windows 7 pricing: Some users fume as the rose-colored discounts ... - ZDNet Explore All |
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NetworkWorld - Found Jul. 1, 2009 According to StatCounter, Bing -- by CEO Steve Ballmer -- may have nibbled away at Google's commanding lead in the search arena, but it... Bing Gaining on Google? Not Necessarily - NetworkWorld Microsoft's Bing Steals Market Share From Google - FOXNews.com Bing Snags Small Gain From Google - Wired Bing Snags Small Gain from Google - Wired News Explore All |
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CNET - Found Jun. 30, 2009 Ballmer on Windows 7, economy, Google Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tells CNET News' Ina Fried the downturn will have ripple effects across the tech MS to push IE 8 to more business users - ZDNet Microsoft: We're not gouging Europe on Windows 7 pricing - NetworkWorld A year after Windows XP's death, users keep it alive - NetworkWorld Small PC makers throw support behind Windows 7 - NetworkWorld Explore All |
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NetworkWorld - Found Jun. 30, 2009 Is it the exclusive bundling deals? The deep Software Assurance entrenchment? Steve Ballmer's backroom deal with the devil? Office-compatibility torture test - NetworkWorld The better Office alternative: SoftMaker Office bests OpenOffice.org - NetworkWorld The many faces of OpenOffice - NetworkWorld The better Office alternative: SoftMaker Office bests OpenOffice.org - ITworld.com Explore All |
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CNN - Found Jul. 1, 2009 It's why Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer said recently that if the change is enacted, "we're better off taking lots of people and moving them... " Business gets taxed, workers get hurt - CNN Money Business gets taxed, workers get hurt - CNN Explore All |
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ZDNet - Found Jun. 29, 2009 Its a tricky question. Would Gates have pushed through the same kind of cost-cutting measures as CEO Steve Ballmer has? One year after Bill Gates' 'retirement': What's different? - ZDNet Explore All |
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Internet News - Found Jun. 26, 2009 Facebook Tailrank Slashdot Technorati Google Bookmarks Yahoo Favorites Windows Live Ask Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer presented an overview of... No vertically-focused Microsoft Office on the docket (for now) - ZDNet Microsoft Defends Its Empire - BusinessWeek PointBridge Honored as Microsoft Online Services Partner of the Year - Red Orbit PointBridge Honored as Microsoft Online Services Partner of the Year - TMC Net Explore All |
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Wall Street Journal Online - Found Jun. 25, 2009 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said ... Yahoo aims at customization with new home page - NetworkWorld Yahoo's Bartz: Change is coming - ZDNet No Storms At This Year's Yahoo Shareholder Meeting - New York Times Yahoo shareholders content to wait and see - CNET News.com Explore All |
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CNET News.com - Found Jun. 25, 2009 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had some provocative prophecies to share with the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival in France, declaring ... Ballmer says offline media is dead, keeps mum on Microsoft's offline ... - CNET Video: Microsoft Surface is like a giant iPhone - Seattle Post Intelligencer The Microsoft Blog: Ballmer: Traditional media will disappear within ... - Seattle Post Intelligencer Microsoft's Ballmer: all content will be digital - Revolution Explore All |
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Morningstar.com - Found Jun. 25, 2009 Bartz and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer have talked about forming a partnership on search but the possibility of a deal in the near term looks... Yahoo CEO: We Have Nothing To Say About Microsoft - CNN Money Ahead of the Bell: Yahoo CEO takes on shareholders - CNBC Explore All |
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Steve Ballmer
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| Steve Ballmer | |
| Born | March 24, 1956 Detroit, Michigan |
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| Residence | United States |
| Occupation | CEO, Microsoft |
| Salary | $1,350,8341 |
| Net worth | ▼ $11 billion USD (2009) |
| Spouse(s) | Connie Snyder |
| Children | 3 |
| Website Staff Bio at microsoft.com |
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Steven Anthony Ballmer (born Detroit, Michigan March 24, 1956) is an American businessman who has been the chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation since January 2000.2 Ballmer is the second person after Roberto Goizueta to become a billionaire in U.S. dollars based on stock options received as an employee of a corporation in which he was neither a founder nor a relative of a founder. In Forbes 2008 World's Richest People ranking, Ballmer was ranked the 43rd richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of $11 billion.citation needed
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Ballmer was born into an Ultra Orthodox Jewish family living in Detroit. 3 On October 4, 2007, Ballmer was awarded honorary citizenship of Lausen, Switzerland. His father had worked in Belgium as a manager at Ford Motor Co in the 1960s. In 1990 Ballmer married Connie Snyder, who was on Microsoft's PR team at the Waggener Group in the '80s. They have three children. Ballmer's maternal grandparents lived in Pinsk, Belarus.4
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Steve Ballmer was born March 24, 1956, to a Swiss father and a Jewish-American mother whose family came from the Eastern European city of Pinsk (today in Belarus). It has been reported that Ballmer belongs to Mensa and has an IQ of over 135. He grew up in Farmington Hills, Michigan. In 1973, he graduated from Detroit Country Day School, a high school, and now sits on its board of directors. In 1977, he graduated from Harvard University 5 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and economics. While in college, Ballmer managed the football team, worked on The Harvard Crimson newspaper as well as the Harvard Advocate, and lived down the hall from fellow sophomore Bill Gates. He then worked for two years as an assistant product manager at Procter & Gamble, where he shared an office with Jeffrey R. Immelt, who would later become CEO of General Electric.6 In 1980, he dropped out from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.7
Ballmer joined Microsoft on June 11, 1980.8, and became Microsoft's 24th employee, the first business manager hired by Gates.citation needed He was initially offered a salary of $50,000 as well as a percentage of ownership of the company. When Microsoft was incorporated in 1981, Ballmer owned 8 percent of the company. He has headed several divisions within Microsoft including "Operating Systems Development", "Operations", and "Sales and Support." In January 2000, he was officially named chief executive officer.2 As CEO Ballmer handled company finances, however Gates still retained control of the "technological vision." In 2003, Ballmer sold 8.3% of his shareholdings, leaving him with a 4% stake in the company.9 The same year, Ballmer replaced Microsoft's employee stock options program. While CEO of Microsoft in 2007, Steven A. Ballmer earned a total compensation of $1,279,821, which included a base salary of $620,000, and a cash bonus of $650,000.10 In 2008, he earned a total compensation of $1,350,834, which included a base salary of $640,833, and a cash bonus of $700,000.11
In 2009, and for the first time ever, he made the opening keynote at CES, since Bill Gates left Microsoft.
Steve Ballmer has been known for his eccentric expressions of enthusiasm. At Microsoft's 25th anniversary celebration in 2000, Ballmer surprised the audience by popping out of the anniversary cake. His performance on stage at an employees' convention was caught on a widely-circulated video known as "Monkey Boy Ballmer." A few days later at a developers' conference, Ballmer repeatedly chanted with sweat drenched underarms "developers, developers, developers, developers" in front of the gathering.
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Footage featuring Ballmer's flamboyant stage appearances at Microsoft events have been widely circulated on the Internet, becoming viral videos. The most famous of these is commonly titled "Steve Ballmer going crazy."12. This video features Ballmer sprinting and hopping around while verbally screeching, screaming and making other various high pitched noises as well as dramatic hand gestures on a stage for about 45 seconds to the song "Get on Your Feet" after being introduced at a Microsoft employee convention. This video is also known in other names, such as Steve Ballmer Going Nuts, Dance Monkey Boy Dance and Ballsy (aka Steve Ballmer) on Crack. Another video, captured at a developers' conference, featuring Ballmer chanting the word "developers" was viewed by a million viewers on YouTube. 13 Another video, which became a "big hit on the web" and was featured on CNN14 shows Ballmer ducking behind a desk to evade eggs during a speech in Budapest, Hungary1516
The Wall Street Journal has reported that there was tension surrounding the 2000 transition of authority from Bill Gates and Ballmer. Things became so bitter that, on one occasion, Gates stormed out of a meeting in a huff after a shouting match in which Ballmer jumped to the defense of several colleagues, according to an individual present at the time. After the exchange, Ballmer seemed "remorseful," the person said.
Once Gates leaves, "I'm not going to need him for anything. That's the principle," Ballmer said. "Use him, yes, need him, no."17
He has referred to the free Linux operating system as a "[…] cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."18 Ballmer used the notion of "viral" licensing terms to express his concern over the fact that the GNU General Public License (GPL) license employed by such software requires that all derivative software be under the GPL or a compatible license.
In 2005, Mark Lucovsky alleged in a sworn statement to a Washington state court that Ballmer became highly enraged upon hearing that Lucovsky was about to leave Microsoft for Google, picked up his chair, and threw it across his office. Referring to Google CEO Eric Schmidt (who previously worked for competitors Sun and Novell), Ballmer allegedly said, "Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google," then resumed trying to persuade Lucovsky to stay at Microsoft.1920 Ballmer has described the incident as a "gross exaggeration of what actually took place."20
On March 6, 2008 Seattle's Mayor announced that a local ownership group involving Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made a "game changing" commitment to invest $150 million in cash toward a $300 million renovation of Key Arena and are ready to purchase the Seattle SuperSonics in order to keep them in the City of Seattle. 21 Ballmer would join fellow Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen (owner of the Portland Trail Blazers) as an NBA owner.
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