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Slashdot - Found 3 hours ago
And he doesn't even have to be an evil genius, either: he just has to be smarter than Steve Ballmer.''
News Corp, Microsoft Seek To Pressure Google into Paying for News - Wired News
Microsoft and Murdoch ganging up on Google? - CNET.co.uk
Microsoft-News Corp. search deal looms? - ZDNet
Microsoft, News Corp Weigh Web Pact: Source - ABC News
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I laughed. Who would do such a thing? Apparently, Steve Ballmer would.
Sci-Tech Today - Found Nov. 21, 2009
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer isn't talking turkey when it comes to the software giant's newest operating system.
Windows 8 set for release in 2012 - NetworkWorld
Microsoft's IE9 to tap hardware for speed boost - NetworkWorld
Microsoft's IE9 gets speed boost from PC graphics hardware - Computerworld UK
F5 Solutions Optimize Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 ... - Reuters
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Post ChronicleFortune - Found Nov. 20, 2009
... a buffoon," one long-time shareholder (and father of four Mac-using children) told Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer at the company's annual...
Sinofsky's Windows plan: More data, less testosterone - CNET News.com
Sinofsky's Windows plan: More data, less testosterone - CNET
Ballmer: Windows 7 Sales 'Fantastic' - NetworkWorld
Ballmer: Windows 7 sales on a roll - ZDNet
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Huffington PostITworld.com - Found Nov. 21, 2009
... systems: The Windows 7 operating system is selling like hotcakes compared to past Microsoft operating systems, according to CEO Steve Ballmer.
Chrome shines, Gore opines, staffs decline - Computerworld
Chrome Shines, Gore Opines, Staffs Decline - PC World
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"Windows 7 is the simply best PC operating system we have ever built," Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said.
Microsoft Outlines Growth Agenda at Annual Shareholder Meeting - Reuters
Microsoft Outlines Growth Agenda at Annual Shareholder Meeting - Houston Chronicle
Microsoft Outlines Growth Agenda at Annual Shareholder Meeting - Individual.com
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... also selling well, CEO Steve Ballmer told shareholders on Thursday. Delivering opening remarks at Microsoft's shareholder meeting, Ballmer said...
Microsoft Windows chief decries standards grandstanding - NetworkWorld
FAQ: All you need to try out the Office 2010 Beta - NetworkWorld
Microsoft PDC: Lots on Azure, a peek at IE 9 - CNET News.com
With Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft fights back - CNN
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CNETZDNet - Found Nov. 18, 2009
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz looked like long lost college pals.
Yahoo's share dwindles: Time to panic? - ZDNet
Google and Bing search rising, Yahoo falling - Computerworld UK
Bing gains search market share, nears 10 percent - The Independent
Bing's Market Share Nears 10 Percent - NewsFactor Network
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The IndependentNetworkWorld - Found Nov. 18, 2009
Ballmer: We screwed up with Windows Mobile Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer acknowledges what everyone else knows: Windows Mobile needs lots of...
Opera Mobile 10 beta on WinMo today - CNET.co.uk
Opera Mobile 10 comes to Windows Mobile - NetworkWorld
Opera Mobile 10 beta for Windows Mobile now available - ZDNet
Opera Mobile 10 beta now browsing Windows phones - CNET News.com
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CNET.co.ukMorningstar.com - Found Nov. 18, 2009
(MSFT) Chief Executive Steve Ballmer and AOL Chief Executive Tim Armstrong.
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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 to 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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