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
More than ever, Microsoft's growth opportunities abound as a result of our strong product innovation pipeline, ... Kevin's leadership of global technology, sales, marketing and services will help us ensure we harness this potential and fully realize the growth opportunities before us.
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.
offered far more choices and benefits to consumers.
I think this is a very meaningful way for us to concludes this litigation and to be able to really focus in on developing and delivering the innovative products and services that will benefit not only these students and these educators, but the population broadly and around the world,
People-Ready is a natural extension of our founding vision of empowering people through software. Today we take this to the next level by showing how these tools now work together in new ways to enhance innovation and drive greater value for business.
The future of our business and telecommunications is increasingly linked, and our interest in the telecom field is broad,
More of what we do will live on the Internet, ... Nobody will have software products in 10 years. Everyone will have products and services. It will be hard to tell the difference between software products and services.
People want hosted CRM, ... We will respond to and address that need. We expect to give Salesforce.com a very effective run for its money by having on-premise and hosted solutions over time.
If we don't innovate, we don't have new versions. Nobody needs to upgrade. Nobody needs to buy. We have to have a variety of ways to innovate?We're at the beginning of 12 months of the greatest innovation pipeline that our company has ever had.
This is the next generation of the Internet,
I do think that there is such a strong interest in demand for improvements in information technology that we will continue to see a pretty strong information technology sector, no matter what happens with some of these global economic factors,
The small-business market is the biggest part of the computer market, ... We really need to get after that.
Bill brings to the company the idea that conflict can be a good thing,
This agreement is a significant milestone for consumers and content owners, since it will greatly extend the reach and flexibility of digital entertainment in the home. By integrating our Windows Media(R) platform technologies with the DIRECTV service, we have created a pipeline for an incredible variety of premium digital entertainment to move seamlessly and securely throughout the home to anywhere a DIRECTV customer wants to enjoy it.