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
One of the most competitive battlegrounds for our platform as we face the next five to ten years is the embedded space,
We have no plan in place. We don't expect that to happen.
We have never really used the stock market itself as a barometer of our success,
Through deep collaboration with our customers and partners, today we're delivering powerful new platform capabilities with unprecedented integration between the server infrastructure and development tools.
Throughout our history, Microsoft has won by making big, bold bets.
We know we need to evolve our platform from client and server all the way out to the cloud,
We're about to kick-start a new growth engine for the mobile industry. To grow, the wireless industry needs to provide end-to-end solutions and innovative services. We're creating great new tools to do just that.
We have programs... with SAP to take market share from Oracle as the application and database platform in the largest enterprise.
We have a pretty good reading of both Judge Jackson's decision and the law and a pretty good sense of the course that an appeal will take from our company over the conclusions of law, ... We remain entirely convinced that our behavior has been lawful, and we will appeal to establish that.
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,
Mark's decision to leave was disappointing, ... and I urged him strongly to change his mind. But his characterization of that meeting is not accurate.
I think Office 12 will be the most exciting Office release we've had since Office 4,
It is not designed to address a short-term issue, it's designed for the long run,
I think he is right. We don't agree on much, but I think on that we would agree.