Articles associated with topic: ballmer

• Ballmer Admits Microsoft Whiffed on Smartphones

  [caption id="attachment_12530" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Windows Phones: not dominant.[/caption] During an executive Q&A at Microsoft’s Financial Analyst Meeting on Sept. 19, outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer a…
• Activist Investor Helped Drive Ballmer Out: Report

  [caption id="attachment_11868" align="aligncenter" width="500"] "Retirement! Retirement! Retirement!"[/caption] Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s retirement wasn’t as planned or smooth as his company tried to portr…
• Microsoft’s Ballmer Admits Surface Sales Poor: Reports

  [caption id="attachment_11212" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Surface.[/caption] Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told employees at an internal company event that Windows hasn’t been selling well enough, according…
• Can a Reorg Revive Microsoft?

  Late last year, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that his company would refocus on “devices and services” (his public letter on the topic barely mentioned the word “software”), but it took nine months for…
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  Changing The Way The World Moves

  How Ford’s Technical Specialists Manage a Globalized Workforce The automotive industry is in a state of rapid change. In addition to the expedient move to electrification, auto manufacturers around the world ar…
• Sinofsky Dismisses Trying to Take Over Windows Phone, Developers

  [caption id="attachment_5915" align="aligncenter" width="584"] Sinofsky talks Windows 8 development at last year's BUILD conference.[/caption] When Steven Sinofsky stepped down as head of Microsoft’s Windows di…
• Windows President Steven Sinofsky Leaves Microsoft

  In a move that caught many outside observers off-guard, Windows division president Steven Sinofsky has resigned from Microsoft. No official explanation was given for his departure, although multiple publication…
• Microsoft CEO Ballmer: Early Surface Sales Modest

  [caption id="attachment_5822" align="aligncenter" width="618"] One of roughly a million-billion ads for Microsoft's Surface tablet.[/caption] Microsoft dumped untold amounts of cash into marketing its Surface t…
• Microsoft CEO Ballmer: We’re a Devices and Services Company

  [caption id="attachment_5101" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Microsoft executives show off the Surface tablet.[/caption] Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s shareholder letters aren’t exactly gripping reading—he do…
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  Would You Buy a Windows 8 Tablet at iPad Prices?

  [caption id="attachment_4572" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discusses Surface, which is being positioned as the company's flagship Windows 8 tablet.[/caption] How much will a Wind…
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  Why Finding Your 'Work-Life Integration' is Better Than 'Work-Life Balance'

  We’re all familiar with the so-called Work-Life Balance. But, this conjures up visions of see-saws that must be perfectly balanced with equal weights on both ends at all times to ensure success. I personally be…