Steve Ballmer

CEO Steve Ballmer briefly addressed this week’s exit of Steven Sinofsky , praising the former Windows chief and indicating no major strategy shift is coming. “From a strategy perspective we are ‘all-in’ on what we’ve done,” Ballmer said during a speech at the Churchill Club in Santa Clara, Calif. Si

The sales pitch for Windows 8 started early on Wednesday night. Before the doors to the ballroom had opened for Steve Ballmer’s speech, Microsoft had an army of its store staff roaming the halls showing off the Surface to anyone who would stop. The company set up a full pop-up store at the Santa...

Perhaps he was Caesar, not Caligula? Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's staff memo following Steven Sinofsky's departure isn't exactly awash with praise for a man once tipped for the software giant's throne.…

Details of what led to to the abrupt departure of the man who delivered Windows 8 are still trickling out. But sources say Microsoft's CEO knew he had to make a change. [Read more]

Microsoft decided to oust Windows head Steve Sinofsky after former CEO Bill Gates reportedly expressed his support for current CEO Steve Ballmer.

Sometimes — even in the most complex of organizations, which software behemoth Microsoft most certainly is — it does come down to a simple choice. And, in the case of the seemingly sudden departure of Windows head Steve Sinofsky yesterday , several high-level sources at the company said that it...

Steven Sinofsky is now out , but the reason behind his sudden resignation remains a mystery. Sinofsky was not well liked by many. Insider sources from Microsoft described Sinofsky as abrasive and off-putting, while aggressively keeping control over products. Business Insider says that Sinofsky...

Microsoft Surface selling Steve Ballmer tablet PC

While users start to report problems

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is an able champion for his brand, but even he couldn't muster up much enthusiasm over sales of his Surface RT tablet in a recent interview with a French newspaper . Unless something was seriously lost in translation, sales of Microsoft's slate have been "modest" so...