Steve Ballmer

For the last couple of years, it's been a case of 'when' not 'if' Microsoft brings dedicated Office apps to the iPad , but bossman Steve Ballmer might have other ideas. Despite numerous leaked screenshots and rumoured release dates , everyone is still waiting for the world's most famous...

For the last couple of years, it's been a case of 'when' not 'if' Microsoft brings dedicated Office apps to the iPad , but bossman Steve Ballmer might have other ideas. Despite numerous leaked screenshots and rumoured release dates , everyone is still waiting for the world's most famous...

Microsoft is no stranger to industry flak , but it's always better to give than to receive, right? Steve Ballmer thinks so, and in a recent Bloomberg interview, he took a second away from talking up the new Office 2013 to smite Dropbox , saying that the 100 million users it boasts "sounds like a...

Microsoft officially took the wraps off the latest updates to Office and its new Office 365 online offering yesterday, but many were focused on the lack of an iOS announcement. Although we’ve seen several references to Office mobile apps for iOS devices, we’ve yet to get official word from the...

What does 100 million users get you? The title of "little startup", according to Steve Ballmer who used the term to describe Dropbox this week. In a speech we can only describe as irritatingly arrogant, Microsoft's CEO bragged that Office with its Dropbox-competitor Skydrive is a lot bigger than...

With Office 2013 able to save files directly to SkyDrive, Microsoft's CEO dismisses his cloud-based-rival in an interview with BusinessWeek. [Read more]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer isn’t afraid to speak his mind when it comes to competition, and that’s exactly what he did just recently speaking about Google and Dropbox . In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek , Ballmer discussed the company’s new Office 2013 suite, as well as its SkyDrive...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has dismissed Dropbox as a "fine little startup" in an interview with Bloomberg this week . Discussing the recent launch of Office 2013 and Microsoft's late entry into the cloud with its SkyDrive service, Ballmer says that 100 million Dropbox users is a "pretty small...

Corporate cut-throats, bluster... but what about the tech? Analysis A former Microsoft executive has sketched an unflattering portrait of Steve Ballmer that depicts him as a cut-throat Machiavellian schemer, and claimed in his new book that the top man at Redmond has forced out rivals who...

Steve Ballmer, the outspoken and oft times animated CEO of Microsoft, might not always be the easiest boss to work for. It all depends on who you ask, and if you sit down for a spell with Joachim Kempin, who worked at Microsoft from 1983 to 2002 in a high-level position, he'll paint Ballmer as a...