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And yet, after years of frustration and furious development work, Microsoft now believes it has realised Mr Ballmer's dream.

Ballmer has repeatedly said he would like to combine the two search businesses to take on market leader Google.

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, has no interest in Yahoo unless Mr Yang is no longer around to cause trouble.

He said he fully anticipates Google will launch an antitrust complaint against the partnership.

No replacement has been named. Ballmer said he would look for candidates inside and outside the company.

CEO Steve Ballmer was unable to steer the company to a position of growth, leaving Microsoft selling PC software in a post-PC world.

The company's chief executive, Steve Ballmer, has continued to deliver huge profits.

I said this to Mr. Ballmer: I will not negotiate with you and 30, 000 of my closest friends.

Yes, under Mr Ballmer it built a server business that churns out $6bn in operating profits a year, a quarter of the total.

No doubt Steve Ballmer is an intelligent man and an excellent operations manager.

Once a year, Microsoft president Steve Ballmer, would proclaim that Linux violated some of Microsoft patents.

Ballmer said that he was impressed by the iPad, which had sold better than he would have liked.

Once Mr. Gates leaves, 'I'm not going to need him for anything. That's the principle, ' Mr. Ballmer says. 'Use him, yes, need him, no. '

The old approach of simply trying to replicate a print newspaper online is doomed to fail, Ballmer added.

Whether or not this is true, there is little doubt that Mr Ballmer was keen to get his hands on the company.

Soon, the two men clashed as Mr. Ballmer tried to assert himself in his new job.

In the past, Mr. Ballmer and other Microsoft executives have said the company doesn't plan to build its own cellphone.

For Mr Ballmer, meanwhile, the abandonment of the Yahoo deal represents one of the most prominent failures of his tenure as CEO.

Mr. Gates became Microsoft's 'chief software architect, ' a new position that, in theory, was below that of Mr. Ballmer.

As Ballmer, now chastened by his experience, might say, you can always sell one of anything to China.

Then Gates brought in Steve Ballmer, the firm's current boss, to help manage the company.

"A year has gone by, and the competitive situation has not improved, " Ballmer wrote.

Mr Yang should have taken Microsoft's money and let Mr Ballmer deal with the problem but he did not want to give away his baby.

But Mr. Ballmer, speaking in Milan Wednesday, appeared to be hedging his bets.

So far, Google has been coy about admitting the rivalry (whereas Microsoft's boss, Steve Ballmer, is obsessed with it).

That probably explains why the ebullient Mr Ballmer was conspicuously understated this week as he outlined his deal with Yahoo.

Ballmer said the result of the job cuts and additions would be an overall staff reduction of 2, 000 to 3, 000 positions.

Still, Mr. Ballmer added that he won something he badly wanted as well: "I got an opportunity to swing for the fences in search. "

Talking to Wall Street analysts, Ballmer confirmed that he thought fresh blood could kickstart discussions.

Mr. Ballmer said Thursday that while Microsoft has "some very good competitors, " the company is a very good competitor itself.

Getting his hands on Alibaba, however, may not be easy for Mr Ballmer.

About to run out of fuel, Mr. Ballmer instead landed in Stockholm.

"We will have to wait and see until we actually are able to get approval and consummate our partnership with Yahoo! , " said Ballmer.

The company remains open to a search partnership with Yahoo, Mr. Ballmer said.

CloudsMicrosoft CEO Steve Ballmer says the company will unveil a new operating system called "Windows Cloud" within a month.

'Nobody quite knows what asset values should be until the economy re-sets, ' Ballmer is quoted as saying in a Dow Jones Newswires article.

The stakes are high for Microsoft and for Mr Ballmer, whose stewardship of the firm is the subject of intense debate.

Ballmer is succeeding at wringing profits from PC software that many had written off in the age of cloud computing.

This was the initial reaction of Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, the world's largest software firm.

The plan was for Mr. Ballmer to fly privately into Helsinki, where he would then travel to a private Nokia facility, Mr. Elop added.

Ballmer reiterated he saw the technology sector returning to growth only slowly, and said it would take time to reach pre-recession levels.

"Ballmer's pretty emotional about this stuff, " said one person who knows him.

But Mr Ballmer was finding it hard to hide the fact that he had finally achieved what he was after.

Ballmer said Microsoft has no plans to boost a cash-and-stock offer for Yahoo that stood at $31 a share when announced Jan.

Speaking to financial analysts, Ballmer said the goal is "not just to deliver products, but to deliver products that people want to buy. "

Mr Ballmer took particular pains to criticise Yahoo! 's readiness to "make Yahoo! undesirable as an acquisition for Microsoft. "

If Ballmer & Co. 's answer to the iPad were to gestate for that long, it wouldn't pop until late 2013.

Last month, in a joint interview with Mr. Gates, Mr. Ballmer's eyes welled up as the two men talked about building Microsoft.

Mr. Ballmer: We've got three things we've got to get done in search.

Eventually, in January 2000, he gave his chief executive title to Mr. Ballmer.

I've long thought that if Microsoft really wanted to become the big, bad Microsoft of old, the company should fire Ballmer.

Bartz and Ballmer said those preliminary discussions involved more cash up front for Yahoo but a less revenue sharing.

Steve Ballmer also hinted the search deal between Microsoft Bing and Yahoo! could be extended to other territories beyond the US and Europe.

Ballmer's keen awareness of that deterioration was evident in a Jan. 31 letter to Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang.

Ballmer said, for Microsoft, the deal wasn't better than the original revenue-sharing proposal, "just different. "

The company's chief executive, Steve Ballmer, said Mr Gates was probably the most "spammed" person in the world.

Ballmer's a fine salesman, but he's no Bill Gates.

Microsoft's job may be to make 'life better for billions of people' around the world, as CEO Steve Ballmer said Tuesday.

Steve Ballmer gave a live webcast today and said that Microsoft is betting its future on the cloud.

What else: Another product from the long list promised by Steve Ballmer last month.

Ballmer also made a pitch to Yahoo! shareholders, saying Microsoft's offer is the best Yahoo! likely will get.

During a question and answer session after his speech, Ballmer was also asked about Microsoft's interest in acquiring Yahoo.

Ballmer argued that the search advertising market, as it is currently constructed, unfairly favors Google because of its dominance.

At the recent All Things Digital tech conference, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called netbooks "revolutionary" devices.

"Jerry's too much of a hot-button for Ballmer to deal with. "

Of course, Steve Ballmer said it was coming in " early March" so that's not much of a prediction.

Microsoft's former CEO Bill Gates and present CEO Steve Ballmer, as well as Yahoo's former CEO Jerry Yang, also feature on the list.

Mr. Ballmer's remarks were first reported by the blog Silicon Alley Insider. A Microsoft spokesman later confirmed the comments.

In a departure from past year, Microsoft has scheduled a press conference that afternoon prior to Mr. Ballmer's speech.

Under the reign of Ballmer, Microsoft has largely failed to capture the Internet opportunity and missed the mobile revolution.

Announcing the deal, Mr Ballmer (pictured, left, with Skype's boss, Tony Bates) tried to spin these as opportunities.

When he returned to work relations with Gates and Ballmer hit a new low.

But in 1989 the two decided to solve their problems in the same businesslike way as Messrs Gates and Ballmer.

"I'm excited to be way out in front and want to push the pedal on that, " Mr. Ballmer said.

CEO Steve Ballmer has come under fire recently for focusing too much on the Windows platform, stifling innovation in other areas.

In 2000two thousand, he gave the job of chief executive officer to Steve Ballmer, a friend of his since their years at Harvard University.

in 1973, gates entered harvard university as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from steve ballmer, now microsoft "s president. "

Steve Ballmer, the boss of Microsoft, is obviously very fond of it.

Steve Ballmer, the chief executive, vows that there will be no more long delays between new product introductions.

You can hear this distribution under that complaint. And you can see why, from Ballmer's point of view, that's a bad idea, right?

Still, Mr. Ballmer tried to issue an optimistic long-term view for the technology industry.

"If he thinks something is important and tells Steve Ballmer, Ballmer will listen to him. "

Mr. Ballmer: In a sense, you could say we missed a cycle.

One concern for Mr. Ballmer was how to preserve Mr. Gates's role of technology visionary inside the company.

Mr. Ballmer believes the software will compete more effectively against Apple Inc. 's i Phone and Google Inc. 's Android operating system.

He also called Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, his former boss, and informed him that Nokia had started evaluating its strategic options.

"I know exactly what I think Yahoo is worth to me, " Mr. Ballmer told employees.

nor did Slate PCs, the entertainment-centric devices that got a brief moment of glory when CEO Steve Ballmer introduced them at CES 2010.

Under Ballmer's leadership, Microsoft missed the tablet and wasted money on "ill-conceived mergers and acquisitions. "

'Windows 7 gives us a real opportunity to come back again at audiences that have been tougher for us, ' Mr. Ballmer said.

Mr. Ballmer took a similar stance at the meeting.

Ballmer's comments come just weeks after Microsoft shelved plans for a flagship, dual-screen tablet-style computer called the Courier.

Two weeks after that moment, Gates announced his resignation from the CEO post, passing the buck to trusted lieutenant Steve Ballmer.

The deal will let Microsoft 'be more ambitious, do more things, ' Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said in an interview.

Should the firm fail to catch up fast, Mr Ballmer will surely be tossed through a window.

Many Microsoft shareholders, employees, partners and customers would like Steve Ballmer to resign (or be ousted) as CEO.

Under its chief executive, Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft is thriving as consumers and businesses begin to spend more freely.

"This really is a win-win agreement both for Microsoft and Yahoo! , " added Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer.

The stress on Mr. Ballmer was clear one morning in January 2001 while he was in Paris for an annual review of Microsoft's businesses.

Microsoft is expected to push Windows tablets starting with Steve Ballmer's keynote address tomorrow.

But now Microsoft has been forced to clarify Ballmer's comments, saying that he was referring to accessories rather than a Blu-ray drive.

BACK in 2000, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, described a grand vision for the future of health care.

I'm sorry Mr. Ballmer, but Windows tablets are doomed to fail, as they have since introduced in the early 2000s.

"We have been making good progress, " says Microsoft CEO Steven Ballmer.

Ellison, Ballmer, Bezos and Murdoch declined to comment through spokespeople.

Mr. Ballmer added he expects Skype to be add to earnings in the first year after the deal closes.

Ballmer's comment about his kids not using an iPod shows he is out of touch and "stuck in the past. "

Craig Mundie is chief research and strategy officer of Microsoft Corp. , reporting to CEO Steve Ballmer.

A day later, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft chief executive, summed up his company's dilemma.

Some major decisions got stuck due to the impasse, Messrs. Gates and Ballmer said.

Steve Ballmer, the boss of Google's arch-rival Microsoft, has derided the search company for being "a one-trick pony" .

Yang even rejected merger overtures in February, 2007, Ballmer wrote, hoping a new ad strategy and reorganization would brighten prospects.

Said Ballmer about China: "There is no software market to speak of. "

Even Mr Ballmer conceded back then that he was searching for the "holy grail" of healthcare.

On Wednesday, hedge fund manager and investor David Einhorn said it was time to replace Mr. Ballmer.

Oh sure, you may, perhaps, work your way up to No. 10 or No. 11, like Steve Ballmer.

Oh, sure, you many, perhaps, work your way up to #10 or #11, like Steve Ballmer.

Mr Ballmer later published a blog post reiterating his company's support for internet freedom .

Its music player, Zune, will remain just that, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's boss, said recently.

Mr. Ballmer: Hard for me to forecast.

With Gates taking a step back, the weight of Microsoft's future falls squarely on Ballmer's shoulders.

In 2007, Mr. Ballmer met with Harry Shum, a computer scientist who led Microsoft's research lab in Beijing at the time.

Mr. Ballmer is under pressure from investors to show Microsoft's bets in new high-growth markets like mobile can pay off.

'This is a different kind of phone, ' Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said at a launch event in New York.

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer told a business lunch in Sydney that he had moved on after Yahoo rejected its takeover bid in the spring.

The language in Ballmer's latest letter was markedly more strident than in his first letter to the Yahoo! board, dated Jan.

"Or a customer could use a smart phone to check battery power or maintenance information remotely, " Ballmer said.

Mr. Ballmer's challenge is to assure that Microsoft's best days aren't behind it.

Gates offered Ballmer 8. 75% of the firm, angering other staff and Allen, who had agreed to a far smaller percentage.

In his letter, Ballmer said a proxy fight would likely lead to Microsoft lowering its offer price.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that the Windows giant would cut prices to drive sales.

That said, Mr Ballmer has delivered enviable financial results.

"I won't go a dime above, and I will go to what I think it's worth if that gets the deal done. "

But holding out may force Ballmer to up the ante.

A combined Microsoft and Yahoo would "bring together critical mass, " Ballmer says, and "we'll build off that strength. "

Whether it's Bill or Steve Ballmer, they're much more high volume. Intense.

Yet Mr. Ballmer seemed to concede that Microsoft needs improvement in some areas.

He suggested the board of Microsoft offer the same directive to Mr. Ballmer.

In May, Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer gave the first Windows 7 demonstration, showing off multi-touch screen technology.

After a decade under the leadership of Steve Ballmer, Microsoft is dangerously absent where it counts.

Ballmer and Gates later apologised but the partnership was over.

And Mr. Ballmer clearly views the Yahoo bid, and the Google threat, in broad terms.

Mr. Ballmer: In some sense you could say we did some level of development.

"We want to give Windows 8 its own companion hardware innovations, " Ballmer said.

Ballmer bid a staggering $47. 5 billion in an unsuccessful effort to take over Yahoo, the No. 2 player in search.

So what's the deal with Steve Ballmer's vassals getting Windows Phone 7 handsets?

Those folks won't give up their Macs until Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer pries them from their cold, dead fingers.

Mr. Ballmer: We basically have shut down new spending.

Ballmer has been working especially hard this year to revamp Microsoft and make it more competitive with tech's new "it girl, " Google .

Which is why the answer to Microsoft's problems isn't firing Ballmer, but in bringing on a co-CEO.

CEO Steve Ballmer predicted on Monday that Microsoft would sell 350 million copies of Windows 7 licenses by the end of 2010.

"This is by far the biggest wave of products we've ever introduced, " said Steven A. Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft.

Ballmer insists: "I've never thrown a chair in my life. "

In the same vein, Mr. Ballmer is not a big believer in micromanagement.

Mister Ballmer has been with Microsoft since 1980nineteen eighty.

However, Mr Ballmer would do well to dust off that old memo.

But on May 3rd, after a frustrating marathon of meetings, Mr Ballmer walked away.

Rumours persist that a coup is brewing to oust Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's current boss.

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer said that Windows-based tablets will be out byChristmas.

In the wake of handing out 3, 000 layoff notices Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent an e-mail to staff.

Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer were the dynamic duo of the 1980s and 90s.

AT A company meeting last year, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's pugnacious boss, spied an employee taking a photo on an Apple iPhone.

Ballmer spoke at the Allen Center on the University of Washington campus.

But when a statement like that leads to headlines like "Ballmer says it's okay to skip Windows Vista, " you have a problem.

Mr. Ballmer: We see a lot of enthusiasm.

What did Steve Ballmer say?

Poor Steve Ballmer.

He also points to another big attraction for Mr Ballmer from a full acquisition: the chance to increase his company's presence in China.

Mr. Ballmer: No plan.

Mr. Ballmer: Our business has been competitive for a long, long time, and it's competitive today.

After the exchange, Mr. Ballmer seemed ' remorseful , ' the person said.

"Web 2. 0 means so many things to so many people, " says Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft.

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer formally withdrew the offer in a letter to Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang.

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, said that developing a tablet-style computer to rival Apple's iPad was a top priority Photo: AP

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