Posts Tagged with ‘steve-ballmer’

Allan Stern over at Center Networks is much more excited about the Microsoft conference call today than I am. A quick scan of the press release will tell you all you need to know, and that it's a big fluffy piece of PR being floated out there. I grabbed a buzzword bingo card online and had a bingo before I was finished with the first three paragraphs.
Make no mistake in my feelings about the proposed Microsoft purchase of Yahoo; Microsoft [...]

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 [...]

Microsoft has shown a lot of interest this year in becoming a stronger web competitor. In 2007, the company has released a Flash competitor (Silverlight), unveiled a rival for AppleTV (Extenders), and significantly updated its Live search engine to better compete with Yahoo! and Google.
This appears to only be the tip of the iceberg, however, as Steve Ballmer proclaimed yesterday, amid a room full of spectators at the Web 2.0 Summit, that he has made plans to purchase 20 web [...]