Posts Tagged with ‘ray-ozzie’

Here’s something to chew on: Microsoft wants to spend the next three to five years growing its online advertising market share by more than 300%.
What can you really say to such seemingly irrational ambition? Good luck, I suppose.
But really, if we’re honest, would it be right to expect any less pompous a plan to spew forth from Redmond? Considering the company’s history of public statements and prognostications, this memo seems like the kind of the thing they reflexively [...]

Let me start by saying something I think many of us can agree on: as influential as Bill Gates has been throughout his entire tenure at Microsoft, things won?t change much when the man leaves his post officially next year.
Nevertheless, the now-mostly-symbolic head honcho (a.k.a., Chairman) at Microsoft (Ballmer is CEO) had his last meeting with shareholders yesterday, making for something of a reflective moment for all ? though reports say little sentimentality was displayed, if any ? and opening [...]