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 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,
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In the last year and a half we've done a lot of revamping of the engineering and the processes.
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.
All of our major businesses can have a short-twitch capability every six to nine months to a long-twitch capability. We can't make customers wait three to four years for things they need every few months,