Word: ballmer
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...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...
...Google's move into the operating-system space, long dominated by Microsoft, is not good news for Redmond, Wash. The last thing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer needs is to compete against Google's (presumably) free operating system, which supposedly can drive anything from a netbook...
...people who run Microsoft, especially Steve Ballmer who has been at the firm for 30 years, there is a certain amount of humiliation that goes along with no longer being the world's fastest growing global enterprise. But, Microsoft's fate was unavoidable once it started to have a 90% market share in a number of its core businesses. There are, essentially, no more worlds to conquer...
...numbers are not the reason that Yahoo does not matter. What matters is that it is no longer a company with even a modest voice in the media industry. The time when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer might have bought it or its search division is probably over. Ballmer is, as most good businessmen should be, ruthless beyond the imagination of the general public. He gave Yahoo's board a chance to do the right thing for its shareholders. Once Yahoo turned Ballmer down, he kept leaking comments about ongoing interest to the press. Just as Yahoo was beginning take...