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...were United Technologies’ George David ’64-’65, Fannie Mae’s Franklin D. Raines ’71, Viacom’s Sumner M. Redstone ’43-’44 and Microsoft’s Steven A. Ballmer ’77, who is also a former Crimson editor...
...about soda options? In search of a $1 billion cut in operating costs, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wrote to employees warning of cuts in perks. The most famous of these, free beverages, he later cautioned, could involve a shift from cooler-based supplies to soda dispensers...
Alter also remembers The Crimson fondly, filled with budding media stars. In the late seventies, Steve Ballmer ’77, Nicholas B. Lemann ’76, Francis J. Connolly ’79 and Alix M. Freedman ’78 were all working in The Crimson’s newsroom...
Like a kid with a $100 bill in a penny-candy store, Microsoft has been trying too many things at once, critics have long charged. To keep the company focused, Ballmer sliced it into seven supposedly equal and semiautonomous product groups, each with its own CFO. Two of those groups--Windows and Office--account for 62% of revenue and the lion's share of profits. The others deal with mobile devices, business services, entertainment, the Internet (MSN) and server software. Those last two are marginally profitable; the others are optimistic bets on the future. Says Jupiter Research analyst Joe Wilcox...
Microsoft appears to be going through a mid-life crisis--buying flashy toys and having prolonged bouts of soul searching. Take this piece of dissent from a rank and filer: "The products are there. The marketing is not. Gates and Ballmer have been our salespeople for so long, but we need more voices out there selling our products." Even the executive suites are not immune to mea culpas. "We need to be more predictable to our customers," says vice president Johnson. "We need to make it easier to do business with...