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
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.
I see great opportunity for revenue growth for Microsoft coming from the mid market,
It's the most tested, most widely-implemented product in the test phase of anything we've ever built. It's rock solid. We've got it deployed on literally hundreds of thousands of desktops. It's ready to go.
It's top priority for us to be an innovative company,
At least a little more rapid cycle time would be appropriate,
Cars come in all shapes and sizes.. I'll be the judge of this thing..
In the last year and a half we've done a lot of revamping of the engineering and the processes.
Our customers have been intimately involved in the development process for Windows 2000 since its inception, and they expect nothing less than the highest-quality, most reliable platform on which to run their businesses.
There's no mission critical enterprise job today you should feel uncomfortable running on the Microsoft platform. There is no job that's too big to run on Microsoft and the Windows platform.
I think Office 12 will be the most exciting Office release we've had since Office 4,
I see great opportunity for revenue growth for Microsoft in the mid-market. Mid-market customers might really not want to hear that.
There will be this kind of quantum leap forward in the way people use the Internet over the next several years. There will be ushered in a next generation Internet user experience. That will be marked not only by the introduction of additional devices that take advantage of the Internet, but it will be marked by a whole new set of ways for programs to work together, for users to share data with one another and with programs, and basically, almost a whole new user interface model of the world.
By bringing together the software experience and the service experience, we will better address the changing needs of our customers' digital lifestyles and the new world of work.
If you look at the dollars, everything about our prices are quite different than classic enterprise software.