Microsoft's Ballmer: 'The Internet is not designed for the iPhone'
techflash.com 10/22/2009 — Tucked away at the end of an Associated Press story on Windows 7 today is an interesting comment from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on the question of whether the phone could supplant the PC as the "technology of choice" for mobile consumers. His ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer On “Moving The Needle”
techcrunch.com 9/29/2009 — Last week we showed the highlights and 10+ minutes of video footage of an exclusive hour-long TechCrunch interview with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer . Now for the rest of that interview. The video was just a teaser. I spoke with Ballmer for another ...

Ballmer makes a scene over employee's iPhone
arstechnica.com 9/12/2009 — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has pulled some crazy stunts in the past. The result is almost always poor publicity for the man and the company he represents. It's really a pity that someone as bright as Ballmer loses his ...

Ballmer: Microsoft “are not interested in e-readers”
slashgear.com 10/9/2009 — Amazon are looking to foreign climes with the Kindle, Barnes & Noble are preparing to make a splash with both monochrome and color ebook devices, but Steve Ballmer doesn’t reckon his customers care about standalone ebook readers. Speaking to reporters in the Netherlands this week, ...

Why Microsoft's Steve Ballmer is No Bill Gates: Lyons
newsweek.com 10/30/2009 — Last month Microsoft rolled out Windows 7 and opened the first of a chain of new retail stores. As usual with such announcements, there's been loads of hoopla and ginned-up excitement. But mostly people are just relieved. Windows 7 replaces Vista, one ...

reading, Microsoft's Ballmer says
reuters.com 10/9/2009 — ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) - Microsoft has no plans to develop a digital book reader to compete with the fast-growing popularity of Amazon's Kindle or a device that rival Apple is reportedly developing. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said ...

Ballmer speaks the language of love
blog.seattlepi.com 10/8/2009 — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in France on Tuesday to help open the company's new headquarters and research center there, wowed an audience when he launched into French for a 10-minute speech.

Ballmer: Windows Mobile 7 should have been out, like, yesterday
engadget.com 9/25/2009 — It wasn't all that long ago that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer proudly declared that Windows Mobile 7 would be out "sometime next year," but it looks things got a bit more real at the company's just-concluded Venture Capital Summit, where Ballmer ...

Ballmer Talks Natal, Says Blu-ray Add-On for Xbox Coming [Ballmer Interview]
gizmodo.com 10/22/2009 — In the first segment of our exclusive Steve Ballmer interview series, the Microsoft CEO and I talk about Natal, the blurring of console generations, and the surprising fact that "you'll be able to get" Blu-ray add-on drives for Xbox 360 . When I ...

Steve Ballmer Declares 'Free Is Not A Business Model' -- Apparently Unfamiliar With Microsoft's Free Products
techdirt.com 10/8/2009 — Josh W points us to an article about Microsoft new mobile phone software that contains an odd quote from Steve Ballmer , responding to a question concerning Microsoft's plans to compete with Google's free Android mobile operating system: "Free is ...

Windows 7 Hardware Discounts Offered — InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 10/29/2009
PC users can now get bargains on Microsoft mice, keyboards, Webcams, and other peripherals—even if they didn't host a launch party.

Microsoft trumpets Windows 7 support options, response speed — Latest from Computerworld 10/29/2009
Microsoft is touting the new self-help support baked into Windows 7, even as its engineers continue to wrestle with an "endless reboot" problem that has crippled some computers being upgraded from Vista.

Microsoft confirms Windows 7 install trick is legal — Latest from Computerworld 10/29/2009
Microsoft today confirmed that users can apply a workaround trick to do a clean install of Windows 7 on a blank hard drive as long as they toe the licensing line.

Users should delay Windows 7 upgrade, support firm warns — Latest from Computerworld 10/30/2009
Users should wait for Microsoft to work out the bugs in Windows 7 before jumping on the new operating system, computer support firm Rescuecom said today.

Windows 7 First 'Self-Healing' OS — InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 10/30/2009
Microsoft baked a number of support technologies directly into its new operating system so it can self-diagnose and repair problems.