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
We know we need to evolve our platform from client and server all the way out to the cloud,
We realized we needed to give our core leaders deeper control and accountability in the way they run their businesses, while at the same time ensuring strong communication and collaboration across business units.
In this world, it should be very easy for me, the end user, to have a program that runs on my PC that tells my bank and my insurance company and my broker to all put their financial information about me in my virtual safety deposit box on the Web, and let me view my information under my control.
In this world, it should be easy for me to tell my travel agent Web site to make sure to update my calendar with my trip and to page my mother if my flight is going to be more than an hour late.
I know no better place to base the company than here, ... the center of mobility.
I know for sure, 100 percent, we will do much, much better in Japan than we did with Xbox I, but that wouldn't be too hard.
In the short term, I would be surprised if consumers saw any kind of immediate change.
In this era of the web and web services, and new technologies, there's many more opportunities to integrate and connect with systems from our partners, our competitors, and many, many others.
IM interoperability is the right thing for our customers, our businesses and the industry as a whole, and Microsoft is delighted to help lead these efforts with Yahoo.
IM inter-operability is the right thing for our customers, our businesses and the industry as a whole,
If you can find a classic enterprise piece of software that sells for a few hundred dollars, then its maintenance, too, might have to be a little higher than the percent people think of as typical, ... I don't seriously propose it, but the way to get the percentage down would have been to raise the price of the original license, which I don't think anybody would have liked either. I think the Software Assurance price is a fair price.
In the last year and a half we've done a lot of revamping of the engineering and the processes.
In terms of people taking advantage of the Internet, I think we can talk about this generation of browser essentially as about the equivalence of DOS.
In every other generation, the first guy to 10 million consoles was the number one seller in the generation.