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 have no plan in place. We don't expect that to happen.
Through deep collaboration with our customers and partners, today we're delivering powerful new platform capabilities with unprecedented integration between the server infrastructure and development tools.
We know we need to evolve our platform from client and server all the way out to the cloud,
We have programs... with SAP to take market share from Oracle as the application and database platform in the largest enterprise.
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It's top priority for us to be an innovative company,
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Throughout our history, Microsoft has won by making big, bold bets.
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Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally.
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