Steve Ballmer

Uniting the two will help it compete against Apple and Google

Following the launch of the Surface RT, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently told French daily Le Parisien that sales of the firm's new touchscreen tablet had got off to "a modest start". The Surface RT may seem to be everywhere at the moment—plastered all over billboards and newspaper pages—but...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has attacked the approaches of his two main tablet OS rivals, Apple and Android

When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was a little kid, was he not told that if you don't have something nice to say about someone, don't say anything? Instead, Ballmer had some unkind comments for both competitors although they were not anything new...

During a Churchill Club discussion, Microsoft's CEO offers observations on his former lieutenant and Windows 8, as well as Apple and Google. [Read more]

An interview of Steve Ballmer by LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman this evening saw the Microsoft CEO characterize Windows Phone’s competition in some less than favorable terms. TechCrunch reports that Ballmer called the rival Android platform "wild," "uncontrolled," and susceptible to malware....

Microsoft offers quality at an affordable price with a less controlled ecosystem, Ballmer says. "The best of both worlds is available to us," he maintained. [Read more]

At the Churchill Club in Santa Clara , two tech titans sat down to have a conversation. LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman interviewed Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer at an event with “tech influencers and innovators”, and a bunch of of us press folk. Ballmer is riding on the release of Windows 8, Surface...

Tonight, during Steve Ballmer’s interview by Reid Hoffman , the two talked about everything Microsoft. Now that Ballmer is talking about his competitors he let out a few bonzo words when it came to Google and Apple and the state of their phone ecosystems, especially when it comes to apps. - On the...

"Steven has made one of most amazing contributions anybody will ever make to any company in terms of guiding key activities and engineering systems," Ballmer said. [Read more]