Tag Archive | "Steve Ballmer"
Microsoft eliminates nearly 3,000 positions
Techflash reports: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer this morning informed employees that the company will be cutting more jobs — going forward with the second phase of its previously announced plan to eliminate up to 5,000 positions by June 2010. The company isn’t giving a specific number, but Ballmer’s memo says the latest move means Microsoft […]
Continue reading...Steve Ballmer on touchscreens, and why Windows Mobile is in trouble
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Check out this a quote from Steve Ballmer as he discusses touchscreens and the lack of multi-touch in Windows Mobile: Windows Mobile 6.5 has touch on it. The way Apple does touch drives cost. [The] way they do it on the iPhone is not an inexpensive component. We’ll do it in a way that you […]
Continue reading...Steve Ballmer and Family are Apple Free [Video]
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Check out this video clip of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discussing Apple at the McGraw-Hill Media Conference. As can be expected, he says that neither he, his wife, nor his children own any Apple products. But what I find more interesting are Ballmer’s thoughts on the economy and its effect on Apple. He states: “Paying […]
Continue reading...Windows Mobile still in a world of trouble
Friday, March 6, 2009
Microsoft is not sittin’ pretty these days. Its Windows Mobile platform continues to lose market share, and on top of that, it doesn’t appear that it’ll have a worthy competitor in the Mobile OS space until 2010. At Microsoft’s CIO summit this week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer fielded a question about what steps Microsoft is […]
Continue reading...Microsoft unveils update to Windows Mobile, introduces app store
Monday, February 16, 2009
On the first day of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft unveiled an upgrade to Windows Mobile and announced plans to introduce an Apple like app store for Windows Mobile users. The upgrade will be released as Windows Mobile 6.5, and will sport a completely new interface and enhanced features such as a more […]
Continue reading...Microsoft lays off 5,000 workers
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft will be laying off as many as 5,000 employees in effort to save money in this tough economic climate. Notably, this is the first time that Microsoft has resorted to company wide firings. The reductions, about 5 percent of the workforce, will take place in almost all areas and help […]
Continue reading...Dan Lyons gets paid to write for Newsweek?! Pt. III
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Newsweek columnist Dan Lyons is up to his old tricks again with a new article about Apple that is more about tabloid-esque personal attacks against Steve Jobs than actual substantive reporting. I’m not a tech-industry insider, so I can’t shed any light on why Dan Lyons seems to have a personal vendetta against Steve Jobs, […]
Continue reading...Survey: Steve Jobs has second highest approval rating for CEO’s
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Glassdoor.com is a website that lets employees anonymously complain about or lavish praise upon their company and C.E.O, and in its most recent survey for 2008, the site found that Steve Jobs had a 90% approval rating as the C.E.O of Apple, coming in second place behind Arthur D. Levinson, the C.E.O of a biotech […]
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009
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