Steve Ballmer

At Microsoft’s Build developer conference on the company’s main campus in Redmond, Wash., today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that Microsoft sold 4 million Windows 8 updates since the operating system went on sale last Friday. In addition, Microsoft noted, the company has shipped “tens of...

Steve Ballmer announced first of all today at Build 2012 that they’d sold 4 million Windows 8 upgrades in the three days since it’s been launched. It’s no small number, of course, and for the developers seeing this system for the first time here in its final form at the developer conference we’re...

Steve Ballmer sat down with the Wall Street Journal and told the financial daily that the launches of Windows 8 and the Microsoft Surface tablet were not spectacular and that numerically, there was nothing to report and when asked about Apple, he called them a "low volume player" in its markets...

Greetings in beautiful, gray Redmond, WA. What better time to kick off year's Build event at the Microsoft campus than four days after the launch of Windows 8 ? CEO Steve Ballmer started the developer-centric event off with a nice little number: four million. According to the enthusiastic exec,...

Microsoft has seen strong initial demand for its Windows 8 operating system, CEO Steve Ballmer said Monday. Speaking at an event to launch Windows Phone 8 , a new operating system for smartphones, Ballmer said the new computer operating system was greeted with enthusiasm at its launch on Friday. “We

Microsoft is really pushing the personalised angle of Windows Phone 8 — so much so it’s co-opted sometimes crazy over-enthusiastic CEO Steve Ballmer into showing off his own Windows Phone and voicing one of the new ads. The move deliberately (or otherwise) echoes that of another tech CEO called...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is the star of a new Windows Phone 8 ad that focuses on the Live Tiles and throws in a cameo by some guy named Gates, not to mention the executive's Wife and Kids; a second ad says the platform was built for everyone...

The last time we saw Steve Ballmer star in a commercial for Microsoft, he was extolling the virtues of a 286-based PC running the glory that was Windows 1.0 -- in 1986. You can imagine the surprise we got 26 years later when Microsoft premiered an ad featuring the now-CEO during its Windows Phone 8...

Microsoft has seen strong initial demand for its Windows 8 operating system, CEO Steve Ballmer said Monday.

Claims other smartphone UIs are old or stolen Steve Ballmer is promising Microsoft is "all in" on the Windows 8 system and took to the stage, along with a mystery celebrity, to push the latest version of Microsoft's smartphone operating system at a launch event in San Francisco.…