Tagged: Steve Ballmer

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Microsoft’s Steady Comeback Has Begun

Microsoft was in bad shape when CEO Steve Ballmer left this year. It was very fiscally healthy, but it had failed twice in two years to release a successful tablet despite billions spent on marketing. Microsoft’s Windows phones picked up only a fraction of the global smartphone market. Microsoft’s most lucrative products, the  Office Suite and Windows, faced steep competition from Google’s own offerings. Over the past decade, Microsoft...

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Microsoft CEO Ballmer Stepping Down: Finally

Goodbye Ballmer! Microsoft’s CEO is stepping down within a year, and it’s seriously about time. His naivete in sectors like mobile and touch have nearly destroyed Microsoft, and they haven’t seen a new successful product since Gates left. I wrote a whole article on Seeking Alpha about why Ballmer needed to go, and Microsoft needed to change to survive, and apparently the Microsoft board...

Microsoft: “We’re Back” with Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Surface

We’ve done a lot of polling lately, and one of the things we asked you was “What do you think of Windows 8?” The split was pretty even for whether people liked it now, but 29% of you said that you believed Windows 8 is a step in the right direction. That’s just one step though; Microsoft has worked hard recently to reimagine their...