Steve Ballmer
Steve Ballmer
Steven Anthony "Steve" Ballmer is an American businessman who was the chief executive officer of Microsoft from January 2000 to February 2014, and is the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. As of May 11, 2015, his personal wealth is estimated at US$22.7 billion, ranking number 21 on the Forbes 400. It was announced on August 23, 2013, that he would step down as Microsoft's CEO within 12 months. On February 4, 2014, Ballmer retired as CEO and was succeeded by...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth24 March 1956
CityDetroit, MI
CountryUnited States of America
The small-business market is the biggest part of the computer market, ... We really need to get after that.
The stuff AOL is doing now is unbelievably egregious. They're trying to get personal computer companies to delete features of Windows and not let people have the choice of using our software,
How are we going to go after the search market? The good old fashioned way, with innovation,
Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We'll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I'm very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish.
By bringing together the software experience and the service experience, we will better address the changing needs of our customers' digital lifestyles and the new world of work.
I know no better place to base the company than here, ... the center of mobility.
I know for sure, 100 percent, we will do much, much better in Japan than we did with Xbox I, but that wouldn't be too hard.
In the short term, I would be surprised if consumers saw any kind of immediate change.
In this era of the web and web services, and new technologies, there's many more opportunities to integrate and connect with systems from our partners, our competitors, and many, many others.
In the last year and a half we've done a lot of revamping of the engineering and the processes.
In general, 50 percent of searches do not lead to the desired outcome. Does anybody not believe that the search experience is going to be dramatically better 10 years from now? Does anybody deny it would be nice to search within the enterprise and outside the enterprise?
If you can find a classic enterprise piece of software that sells for a few hundred dollars, then its maintenance, too, might have to be a little higher than the percent people think of as typical, ... I don't seriously propose it, but the way to get the percentage down would have been to raise the price of the original license, which I don't think anybody would have liked either. I think the Software Assurance price is a fair price.
This is a very large business that still has incredible possibilities.
The thing I put in my pocket has got to do more for me. It's got to let me access more information than just my appointments and contacts.