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- Four words will come to sum up Steve Ballmer's 33 years at Microsoft: "I love this company." They were shouted breathlessly during a now infamous presentation in 2000 in which a whooping Ballmer bounded across the stage to gee up Microsoft's employees. The clip - which saw him dubbed Mr Monkey Boy - went viral.
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- "Developers, developers, developers, developers." This is the quote for which Ballmer is best known after he put in a disturbing performance at Microsoft's 25th anniversary celebrations in 2000.
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- "Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works.
- "The most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen'." This 2004 comment to British hacks was technically right at the time. Not all of the music on iPods was illegally downloaded, but this was a time when the music industry was trying to tell consumers that simply ripping the CDs you'd bought was theft.
Aug 23, 2013 · Four words will come to sum up Steve Ballmer's 33 years at Microsoft: "I love this company." They were shouted breathlessly during a now infamous presentation in 2000 in which a whooping Ballmer...
Steve Ballmer has given his exit interview to The Wall Street Journal . In it, he gives his fullest explanation for why he's stepping down as CEO of Microsoft. It sounds like Ballmer decided it...
History with Microsoft. Ballmer joined Microsoft on June 11, 1980, and became Microsoft's 30th employee and the first business manager hired by Gates. Ballmer was offered a salary of $50,000 as well as 5–10% of the company. When Microsoft was incorporated in 1981, Ballmer owned 8% of the company.
Dec 10, 2013 · “Ballmer’s famous statement is, ‘If you deal with me, you deal in detail,'” says Satya Nadella, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Cloud and Server business. “If you don’t...
Jan 14, 2005 · Ballmer tackled Microsoft's image problems almost from day one. In one of his first public appearances after taking over the CEO reins, he talked about the company's dilemma.
Aug 23, 2013 · The stock market roundly approved of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's retirement announcement, and so do most tech pundits: Ballmer's Microsoft — that is, the one he served as CEO since 2000...
