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In Microsoft’s annual shareholder meeting in Bellevue, Washington last week, CEO Steve Ballmer said that Windows 7 has sold twice as many units as any other Microsoft operating system in the same time period. According to a Microsoft press release he is quoted as stating: “Windows 7 is the simply best PC operating system we have [...]
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told investors at the company's shareholder meeting that Windows 7 was off to a fantastic start. Ballmer revealed the new operating system already sold twice as many units as any OS in a comparable time frame. "We've already sold twice as many units as any OS in a comparable time frame," Ballmer said. "Windows 7 is simply the best PC operating system that...
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810 - Supply And Demand 810 is an MC I first heard on The Black Sunn 's projects who sent me some of his stuff recently. He's kinda working in the same vein as Black Sunn, kinda classic headnodding cratedigging hip hop, but one thing I like about 810's stuff is that he's got all these slick '80s pop/R&B samples that get chopped up into something more hip hop. This is an album he released in February,...
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Financial Times: Raised in Alabama, Rogers started in business at the age of five, collecting empty soda bottles at the local baseball field. After graduating from Yale University in 1964, he won a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford. He then got his first job on Wall Street. Rogers now lives in Singapore with his wife and their two young daughters. Did you think you would get to where you are?...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
Thierry Tilly looks like a geography teacher or a chartered accountant, or a French version of Bill Gates. He claims, variously, to be a Nato "master-spy", a confidant of presidents and prime ministers, a financial genius, a 21st-century representative of an ancient, secret order descended from the Knights Templar and a man with superhuman powers sworn to fight the forces of evil.
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | yesterday
Google's Chrome OS captured a lot of headlines and hype this week after the company invited the media in to have a look-see, setting off a whole lot of opinions about whether it will be any good. Microsoft, predictably, doesn't think so. Otherwise, Al Gore offered his opinion on the role supercomputers can play to quell climate change, and for the first time we can recollect there were not one, but...
Kempton - ideas Revolutionary (Free subscription) | yesterday
From CNBC (transcript and video) (emphasis added), “QUESTION: Hi. My name is Katrina Gankena, and I was born in Russia. And I’m a second-year student at Columbia Business School. My question is for Mr. Gates. What industry do you think is going to produce the next Bill Gates? Because that’s the industry I want to get [...]
TechFlash (Free subscription) | yesterday
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer got lots of attention yesterday when he announced that the company has sold twice as many copies of Windows 7 as it did any previous version of the operating system in its first month. It's "a fantastic start," he told shareholders at the company's annual meeting.
CRM Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer isn't talking turkey when it comes to the software giant's newest operating system. At a shareholder meeting Thursday in Bellevue, Wash., Ballmer told investors that Windows 7 sold double the number of copies in one month as its previous Windows Vista operating system. During the meeting, which was broadcast over the Internet, Ballmer wouldn't say exactly how many licenses...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Xbox 360 gaming system, sold by the Microsoft Corporation, is being endorsed by the Jonas Brothers rock band in a campaign that appears in properties owned by the brothers' media partner, the Walt Disney Company. More on Microsoft
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | yesterday
Shareholders press Microsoft's CEO about Apple's marketing campaign Those Get-a-Mac ads make "you all look like a buffoon," one long-time shareholder (and father of four Mac-using children) told Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer at the company's annual meeting Thursday. "I'm just wondering why your marketing group can't do something to try to rein in this next [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ballmer, on the other hand, had plenty to say -- particularly in response to shareholder questions about Macs, Windows, and the company's struggle to regain its footing in the market for mobile phones. More on Bill Gates
24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | yesterday
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer told attendees at the company’s annual shareholder meeting that Windows 7 sales were astonishingly high. According to a Wall Street Journal account of the gathering, “Microsoft Corp. has sold twice as many copies of Windows 7 in its first few weeks than any previous version of the operating system,” Ballmer said. The [...]
Mashable (Free subscription) | yesterday
Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer has never been too modest about Microsoft’s sales numbers; in fact, throughout the Vista era he insisted that the news OS is doing great, selling better than any other Microsoft OS in history. Now, he claims that Windows 7 is selling even better , which we’re inclined to believe based on the fantastic preorder figures . Speaking at Microsoft’s...
eWEEKeurope (Free subscription) | yesterday
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says Windows 7 is steadily outselling Vista over the same period - and external sources…
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