Steve Ballmer's Message To Rupert Murdoch
1938 Media (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Mac ads haunt Steve Ballmer
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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 [...]
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Apple vs Microsoft Wars Pit Shareholders Against Steve Ballmer [Blockquote]
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
This year's Microsoft shareholder meeting wasn't a lot of fun for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Chairman Bill Gates, thanks to shareholders grilling him about Apple and the iPhone with questions like the above. Ballmer smacked him right back: There's certainly always opportunities for improvement. There is a group of people with whom our market share is less. You take any country, including this...
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Ballmer: Windows 7 off to a fantastic start
DV Hardware (Free subscription) | yesterday
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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Ballmer on Windows 7 sales
Blog.KtecTraining.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
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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What would you do if you ran Microsoft?
Far Beyond the Edge of Reason (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Here's a little thought experiment for you. Microsoft has been a phenomenally successful company, with a market share of nearly 90% of the desktop computer operating system market, a not insignificant chunk of the server market, near-domination of the office suite market, and fingers in many other pies, including mobile phone operating systems, the console and portable music player markets. Its founder...
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Chrome shines, Gore opines, staffs decline
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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...
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Examining Windows 7's fast start
TechFlash (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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.
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Ballmer Says Windows 7 Sales Double Those of Vista
CRM Daily (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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...
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Microsoft’s Bad Image Should Be a Warning to Apple
The Apple Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
“I’m just wondering why your marketing group can’t do something to try to rein in this next generation, because you’ve got a real bad image out there.” So said a Microsoft shareholder to CEO Steve Ballmer at the company’s shareholder meeting yesterday. TechFlash reporter Todd Bishop notes that the same shareholder added that Apple’s TV commercials [...]
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NEWS: Ballmer says Windows 7 is "simply the best"
Pocket-lint (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Says Microsoft has "heads down to do its best" as far as smartphone market goes At a recent shareholders meeting Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer told attendees that " Windows 7 is simply the best PC operating system that we or anyone else has ever built". As part of his opening speech Ballmer stated that the new OS was off to a "fantastic start" revealing that Microsoft...
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Ballmer: Windows 7 sales on a roll
ZDNet (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Delivering opening remarks at Microsoft's shareholder meeting on Thursday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said that Windows 7 was off to a "fantastic start." Delivering opening remarks at Microsoft's shareholder meeting on Thursday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said that Windows 7 was off to a "fantastic start." ...
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Gary Marshall: Happy 24th birthday, Windows!
TechRadar (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Last week, we were bigging up Firefox as it celebrated its fifth birthday . This week, it's another birthday - and it's for something even bigger, better and more important. Yep, we're talking about Windows, version 1.0 of which saw its official release on 20 November 1985. Before those of you who've grown up with graphical user interfaces start your "M$ Windoze" chat, let's travel back...
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Microsoft (MSFT) Claims Windows 7 Is Major Success
24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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 [...]