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
After 22 years, it's time to let Bill hang up his bow-tie and pursue all his other passions, from his family foundation to his many civic duties to his love of baseball and fly-fishing,
This is a big deal for us. The chance to have the kind of partnership where a customer can go in, experience the Internet, sign up and get the Internet easily installed in whatever form makes sense.
It is clear that hackers did see some of our source code,
I think that ought to lead to crisper, faster actions on certain kinds of decisions we need to make,
Just as we succeeded on the on the desktop, we will strive to succeed in services on the Web,
I see great opportunity for revenue growth for Microsoft in the mid-market. Mid-market customers might really not want to hear that.
I see great opportunity for revenue growth for Microsoft coming from the mid market,
Open source software does not today respect the intellectual property rights of any intellectual property holder. Some day, for all countries that are entering WTO, somebody will come and look for money to pay for the patent rights for that intellectual property.
Our goal with this set of releases is to have something for everybody, ... We haven't forgotten the broadest set of developers we have, which are these Web developers, students and hobbyists.
It is not designed to address a short-term issue, it's designed for the long run,
Under Ray's technical leadership and weaving together both software and software-based services, I see incredible opportunity to better address the changing needs of our customers' digital lifestyles and the new world of work.
Our workflow and Business Intelligence capabilities have been really worked on in Office 12, and they will work out of the box as well as with some other ERP and CRM applications,
has not been building all its muscles evenly.
We expect to give Salesforce.com a very effective run for its money,