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In Elops confidential discussions with Bill Gates, the founder, Steve Ballmer, the chief executive, and Ray Ozzie, the chief software...
Sci-Tech Today - Found Nov. 6, 2009
Sales of Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows 7 operating system have been 'fantastic' in Japan since its launch last month, CEO Steve Ballmer said ...
Windows 7 sales 'fantastic,' says Ballmer - The Independent
Windows 7 sales 'fantastic,' says Ballmer - New Zealand Herald
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Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer at Microsoft, said that it is possible the partnership will be extended overseas, according to US...
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Microsoft, Yahoo partnership could reach beyond the US - NetworkWorld
Urgency Shapes Race in Web Search - Sci-Tech Today
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer envisages being able to call out the Microsoft co-founder's name and have an advanced IT system spring into action...
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... hype and mostly upbeat Windows 7 reviews are . The news is so good, in fact, that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called early Windows 7 sales...
Windows 7: Putting Early Sales Figures in Perspective - NetworkWorld
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Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows 7 operating system have been "fantastic" in Japan since its launch last month, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday.
Microsoft CEO calls Japanese response to Windows 7 'fantastic' - Japan Today
Microsoft touts Windows 7 Japan sales - Boston Globe
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Microsoft CEO: Windows 7 Japan sales 'fantastic' - Seattle Times
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(I found this charming mashup of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer as Dr. Evil at .) Without the competition of open source, I doubt Microsofts...
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... chief executive officer, Steve Ballmer and Harvey Chang, chief executive officer of Taiwan Mobile to announce the availability of the highly...
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CEO Steve Ballmer, however, in Japan. 'We've had a great response here in Japan,' Ballmer said at a Tokyo news conference on Wednesday.
Microsoft plans six patches next week, ties November record - NetworkWorld
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Steve Ballmer
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| Born | March 24, 1956 Detroit, Michigan |
| Residence | United States |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| 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.3
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Family
Ballmer was born in Detroit as the son of Fritz Hans Ballmer, an immigrant from Switzerland,4 who had worked in Belgium as a manager at Ford Motor Co in the 1960s.2 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.5
Career
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Pre-Microsoft & life history
Steve Ballmer was born March 24, 1956, to a Swiss-American father and a Jewish-American mother whose family came from the Eastern European city of Pinsk (today in Belarus). 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 magna cum laude from Harvard University 6 with a B.A. 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.7 In 1980, he dropped out from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business to join Microsoft.8
Microsoft career
Ballmer joined Microsoft on June 11, 19809 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.10 The same year, Ballmer replaced Microsoft's employee stock options program.
In 2009, and for the first time ever, he made the opening keynote at CES, since Bill Gates left Microsoft.
Compensation
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 $650,000.11 In 2008, he earned a total compensation of $1,350,834, which included a base salary of $640,833, a cash bonus of $700,000, no stock or options, and other compensation of $10,001.12
Viral videos
Ballmer is known for his eccentric and over-the-top behavior. 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."13 This video features Ballmer after being introduced at a Microsoft employee convention. Ballmer is also featured in a 1986 ad for Microsoft Windows 1.0, enthusiastically promoting the operating system's features 14. Another video, captured at a developers' conference, features a sweat soaked Ballmer repeatedly chanting the word "developers". 15
On competition
Bill Gates
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."16
Free and open source software
He has referred to the free Linux operating system as a "[…] cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."17 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.
Lucovsky/Google
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, "I'm going to fucking kill Google," then resumed trying to persuade Lucovsky to stay at Microsoft. Ballmer has described the incident as a "gross exaggeration of what actually took place."
Apple
Speaking at a conference in NYC, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer criticised Apple's pricing, saying; 'Now I think the tide has really turned back the other direction (against Apple),' Ballmer said. 'The economy is helpful. Paying an extra $500 for a computer in this environment — same piece of hardware — paying $500 more to get a logo on it? I think that's a more challenging proposition for the average person than it used to be.'18
Sports
On March 6, 2008 Seattle's Mayor announced that a local ownership group involving 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. 19 Ballmer would join fellow Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen (owner of the Portland Trail Blazers) as an NBA owner.
However, this failed, since the Sonics have now relocated to Oklahoma City.
Media portrayals
- Bad Boy Ballmer: The Man Who Rules Microsoft (2002), Fredric Alan Maxwell, ISBN 0-06-621014-3 (unauthorized biography)
- The 1999 docudrama Pirates of Silicon Valley features Ballmer as a major character; he is played by actor John DiMaggio.
Notes
- ^ http://www.companypay.com/executive/compensation/microsoft-corp.asp?yr=2008
- ^ a b c Microsoft.com (2008-03-01)"Steve Ballmer: Chief Executive Officer". Microsoft. March 1, 2005. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/steve/default.mspx.
- ^ Forbes(2009-03-11)"The World's Billionaires" Forbes.com, Retrieved (2009-09-14)
- ^ Knobel, Reto (12 October 2009). "Microsoft-Chef: Vorfahren waren Schweizer, «die in Höhlen wohnten»" (in German). Berner Zeitung. http://www.bernerzeitung.ch/basel/land/MicrosoftChef-Vorfahren-waren-Schweizer-die-in-Hoehlen-wohnten/story/20870798. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
- ^ President of “Microsoft” visits his ancestors’ homeland – Pinsk
- ^ "Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch". Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin. http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/bulletin/2007/march/ib_ballmer.html.
- ^ "First job: Assistant product manager for Duncan Hines' Moist & Easy cakes and brownies. His cubicle mate was Jeffrey Immelt, now CEO of General Electric."David Lieberman (2007-04-29). "CEO Forum: Microsoft's Ballmer having a 'great time'". USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2007-04-29-ballmer-ceo-forum-usat_N.htm.
- ^ "After two years, Ballmer headed for Stanford University's MBA program for a better grounding in business. When the fledgling Microsoft ran into problems in 1980, Gates persuaded his friend to drop out and give him a hand. "Jay Greene, Steve Hamm, Jim Kerstetter (2002-06-17). "Ballmer's Microsoft". BusinessWeek. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_24/b3787001.htm.
- ^ "Information for Students: Key Events In Microsoft History" (doc). Microsoft Visitor Center Student Information. http://www.microsoft.com/visitorcenter/student.mspx. Retrieved October 1 2005.
- ^ MSFT: Major Holders for MICROSOFT CP - Yahoo! Finance
- ^ 2007 CEO Compensation for Steven A. Ballmer, Equilar.com
- ^ 2008 CEO Compensation for Steven A. Ballmer, Equilar.com
- ^ ""Steve Ballmer going crazy"". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc.
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- ^ Ballmer Becomes lone voice at Microsoft's helm The Economic Times 30 Jun 2008
- ^ Robert A. Guth (2008). "Gates-Ballmer Clash Shaped Microsoft's Coming Handover". Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121261241035146237.html?mod=googlenews_wsj&apl=y&r=125394. Retrieved 2008-06-05.
- ^ "Apple is no more than a $500 logo". March 20, 2009. http://www.slashgear.com/ballmer-critiques-apple-500-more-to-get-a-logo-2038377. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
- ^ Mayor Nickels announces local effort to buy Sonics, renovate KeyArena
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