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Back to the Future Steve Jobs didn't invent the tablet computer. In the past 10 years, practically every serious PC company has shipped one. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, a man impervious to the lessons of history, arrived at the Consumer Electronics Show (the Comdex de nos jours) in January waving yet another Windows tablet, this one made by Hewlett-Packard. But nobody has ever gotten the marketplace to pay attention. The tablet computer is like a siren that calls seductively to computer engineers, only to wreck them fatally on the stony coast of our total lack of interest...
Currier House could potentially take credit for Microsoft—Harvard's favorite drop-out-turned-company-founder Bill H. Gates (formerly '77) and CEO Steven A. Ballmer '77 lived down the hall from each other as sophomores in this Quad House. Additionally, everyone's favorite world-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma '76 also once called Currier House home. Other notable alumni include former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff '75 and Caroline B. Kennedy...
...handful of journalists who got a look at WP7 before the official Feb. 15 unveiling by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. And after spending some time with several core members of the Windows phone team, I walked away wondering if these vibrant people worked for the same company that gave us Vista. The team constantly referred to the WP7 project as a "gut check" because it was obvious that they had to do something different. And they...
...Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO The Revenue Question: Windows and Office rule. It needs another big revenue generator The Search Strategy: Bing is spending $100 million to get you to try its "decision engine" The Perception Problem: No one ever loved Microsoft. Bing could help soften its tech-demon image...
...Taking on Google has long been a losing proposition. But Bing, combined with Microsoft's search alliance with Yahoo!, changes the contest. As Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer put it when announcing the Yahoo! deal, his company can now "swing for the fences in search." Suddenly, search has become - bing! - a whole new ball game...