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	Steve Ballmer - Encyclopedia Of Stupid
		Steve Ballmer is the definition of the shrewed businessman and everything that is right with capitalism, and has been decreed the world's greatest Pokemon master on at least seven different occasions.
		Ballmer and Gates went to Stanford together, but were increasingly annoyed by the refusal of the adminsitration to let them room together.
		Ballmer met with him and agreed that he would liscene the program only for the recently-made Windows 3.1, the successor to Windows 95.
	www.encyclopediaofstupid.com /stupid/index.php/Steve_Ballmer (819 words)

	Steve Ballmer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Steven Anthony Ballmer (born March 24, 1956) in Detroit, Michigan is an American businessman and has been the chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation since January 2000.
		Ballmer is the first person to become a billionaire (in U.S. dollars) based on stock options received as an employee in a corporation of which neither he nor a relative was the founder.
		Ballmer grew up with his younger sister in Farmington Hills near Detroit, where his father worked as a manager at Ford Motor Company.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steve_Ballmer (1041 words)

	Online NewsHour: Newsmaker with Steve Ballmer -- June 12, 2000
		STEVE BALLMER: No. I mean, if that would happen during the course of this thing, I suppose, but right now we have asked for a stay motion and of course we plan on appealing.
		STEVE BALLMER: Well, we would certainly like this thing to resolve itself as quickly as possible, but we think the appellate court is in as good a position to do that as the Supreme Court.
		STEVE BALLMER: Of course, the context of the discussion will change -- not only to the breakup -- because the breakup is the thing that often gets highlighted -- but the really extreme regulation and confiscation of intellectual property, which the Department of Justice has proposed.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/cyberspace/jan-june00/ballmer_6-12.html (2254 words)

	ActiveWin.com: Interview with Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer (CEO): Microsoft Corporation
		Steve Ballmer is chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., the world's leading manufacturer of software for personal and business computing.
		Ballmer is known inside and outside the company for his devotion to building closer relationships with Microsoft customers and partners - and for ensuring their needs are heard, understood and served by every Microsoft employee.
		Ballmer, born in March 1956, grew up near Detroit, where his father worked as a manager at Ford Motor Co. He graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and economics.
	www.activewin.com /interviews/microsoft/36.shtml (2321 words)

	Steve Ballmer - Uncyclopedia
		Steve Ballmer is a Homer Simpson lookalike and professional hitman for Nikita Khrushchev.
		Ballmer was quick to patent this new pheromone and kill the scientists who made the discovery for violating his patent.
		Steve Ballmer is prone to spurts of hyperactivity
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Steve_Ballmer (1355 words)

	Online NewsHour: Newsmaker Interview \| Microsoft CEO on Smart Phones \| November 20, 2007 \| PBS
		STEVE BALLMER: I went to try to enable people to do things that they want to do, to make them more productive, that make their lives more fun, more connected.
		STEVE BALLMER: I think all of the discussion in the last year has done nothing other than to serve to stimulate interest in the great capabilities that are coming to these very small form factor devices.
		STEVE BALLMER: No, I would say Apple tends to think about things much more sort of cordoned off and cocooned, that's what they did with the PC, that's what they're doing with their phones.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/science/july-dec07/microsoft_11-20.html (1560 words)

	CEO Forum: Microsoft's Ballmer having a 'great time' - USATODAY.com
		Ballmer approved a big investment in the Xbox, placing Microsoft in the hardware business vs. entrenched gamemakers Sony and Nintendo.
		Ballmer says he's confident his investments will pay off over the long term as rivals such as Google take the early lead in emerging businesses on the Internet.
		Ballmer was interviewed by USA TODAY's David Lieberman at the sixth USA TODAY CEO Forum, in conjunction with the University of Washington Business School.
	www.usatoday.com /money/companies/management/2007-04-29-ballmer-ceo-forum-usat_N.htm (3196 words)

	Steve Ballmer
		Ballmer's responsibilities include boosting the business discipline and performance of all Microsoft's existing and emerging businesses as well as continuing to improve customer satisfaction.
		Ballmer also is focused on reinventing the Microsoft working environment so that the company is even more responsive to changing customer needs, new technologies and market dynamics.
		Ballmer also has been responsible for leading Microsoft's channel efforts, and has been instrumental in forging strategic relationships with key business associates at every level of the value chain.
	www.thocp.net /biographies/ballmer_steve.html (473 words)

	Steve Ballmer: See what people are saying right now on Technorati
		Steve Ballmer και ανέκδοτα: Δεν θα χάσουμε χρ...
		Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Goes Wild on His...
		Steve Ballmer Speech to Microsoft Employees October 16th, 2006 He’s got a…different style.
	www.technorati.com /tag/Steve+Ballmer (333 words)

	Posts tagged SteveBallmer at Engadget
		Ballmer did say that it had "already been working on, for example, in Windows, device driver support for Blu-ray drives and the like." He also noted that "Toshiba had moved on" and that it too was moving forward, but unfortunately, he didn't make a peep about the recently rumored Xbox 360 BD add-on.
		Steve Ballmer has been doing quite a lot of talking lately, and his most recent noteworthy conversation came when he addressed an analyst and mother who was noticeably displeased with Windows Vista.
		Microsoft's Steve Ballmer seems confident that the company is headed for a fairly big milestone in the near future, telling attendees at the company's analyst day meeting yesterday that he expects the Windows installed base to reach one billion by the end of fiscal year 2008.
	www.engadget.com /tag/SteveBallmer (2227 words)

	Steven Ballmer: Executive Profile & Biography - BusinessWeek
		Ballmer will lead Microsoft's development of a revolutionary Microsoft NET platform for desktop personal computers, servers, non-PC devices and the Internet.
		Ballmer served as a Director of Accenture Ltd., a General Partner of Accenture SCA, since October 2001.
		Ballmer managed the football team, worked on the Harvard Crimson newspaper as well as the university literary magazine and roomed down the hall from fellow sophomore Gates.
	investing.businessweek.com /businessweek/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=181602&symbol=MSFT (429 words)

	Steve Ballmer - Valleywag (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, feeling threatened by a tidal wave of journalists predicting that he'll step down by December, barricades his office in November and insists on running the company from within.
		Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer didn't toss any furniture this time around, so maybe he's realized the truth: The best way to take Google down is to fill it with Microsoft developers.
		Steve Ballmer's interview with the SF Chronicle was no sign that Microsoft wants to keep him working and public.
	www.valleywag.com /tech/steve-ballmer (2047 words)

	Microsoft Concedes Misstep In Search Technology - News by InformationWeek (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Chief executive Steve Ballmer conceded Thursday that one big misstep by Microsoft over the past few years is that the company did not put resources toward in-house research and development of search technology.
		Ballmer mentioned the European Union's ruling against Microsoft only in passing, when asked about rumors the company may be making some big acquisitions.
		Ballmer said Microsoft spends about 12 percent of its media budget on online advertising, and that he orders his staff to "saturate" that market first and foremost.
	www.informationweek.com /story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18402728 (634 words)

	Fadnation: Why Steve Ballmer Could Be Right
		Ballmer’s role at Microsoft in terms of investments and acquisitions is to try to pick the winners, and a big part of that is considering whether some (or all) social networking sites are fad, because there is one thing for certain: some of them will be, as many have been in the past.
		Ballmer is saying that socnets are just technological widgets that are easy to make, and Microsoft doesn’t have to worry, it can jump in with the same tech anytime.
		Ballmer is dismissive, to explain away the fact that Microsoft has not responded adequately to the social media trend that began in 1992 and is gaining that critical mass that is making it totally mainstream.
	www.techcrunch.com /2007/10/02/fadnation-why-steve-ballmer-could-be-right (2749 words)

	Coding Horror: Steve Ballmer: Sweatiest Billionaire Ever
		A colleague recently pointed me to a Steve Ballmer video I hadn't seen before; the one where he pitches Windows 1.0.
		I love the fact that Steve Ballmer is a billionaire 12 times over, and yet he isn't afraid to get up on stage and make a complete and utter ass out of himself.
		Steve Ballmer can be so zealous in expressing his enthusiasm that once his vocal cords required surgery after he screamed "Windows, Windows, Windows" continuously at a Japan meeting in 1991.
	www.codinghorror.com /blog/archives/000350.html (429 words)

	Ballmer's Microsoft
		Indeed, if Gates is Rockefeller, then Ballmer is shaping up to be Microsoft's Jack Welch--not a visionary founder but a leader, like the legendary General Electric Co. (GE) CEO, with the force of personality and management chops to reinvent a company in his own image.
		Ballmer is acting friendly, he says, because "they've committed a few felonies and they're trying to get out on parole." And in a June 5 speech, SAP AG boss Hasso Plattner chided Microsoft for putting barriers in front of rival software, comparing the company to the Berlin Wall.
		Ballmer went on to gain experience as a marketer at Procter and Gamble Co. (PG), where he met future GE CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt.
	www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/02_24/b3787001.htm (3756 words)

	Australian IT - Microsoft takes on net nasties (double click \| David Frith, JUNE 06, 2006) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It seems Steve was at a friend's wedding reception when the bride's father complained that his PC had slowed to a crawl and would Steve mind taking a look.
		Allchin says Ballmer, the world's 13th wealthiest man with a fortune of about $18 billion, spent almost two days trying to rid the PC of worms, viruses, spyware, malware and severe fragmentation without success.
		Ballmer and Allchin didn't get to be such wealthy executives by ignoring a business opportunity, so last week, Microsoft launched Windows Live OneCare.
	australianit.news.com.au /articles/0,7204,19345228^15865^^nbv^,00.html (724 words)

	Steve ballmer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	Headlines - Ballmer Foresees Growth in Information Management Technology - Stanford GSB
		And as Microsoft's CEO for the past five years, Ballmer has considered it his primary responsibility to drive the innovation and growth agenda for the company.
		Ballmer also cited digital entertainment as an area with extraordinary potential for future growth.
		According to Ballmer, Microsoft must maintain a corporate culture that nurtures and rewards innovation in order to tap the full potential of technologies like these.
	www.gsb.stanford.edu /news/headlines/vftt_ballmer2005.shtml (811 words)

	Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive Steve Ballmer still doesn’t understand social ...
		Steve: I talked with someone who owns 1,000 shows last night (works with Leo Laporte too) and he says his numbers are up.
		Ballmer will incur ire no matter what he says on the topic - if he says that Microsoft is investing they’ll say that you can’t “buy” community… if he doesn’t talk about investment they’ll say that Microsoft isn’t focusing here.
		In contrast, Steve Ballmer is your embarrassing uncle (like in his recent attempt to downplay Microsoft’s interest in Facebook by calling it a fad.
	scobleizer.com /2007/10/02/steve-ballmer-still-doesnt-understand-social-networking (7532 words)

	Microsoft CEO: 'I'm going to f---ing kill Google' - Technology - smh.com.au
		Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer vowed to "kill" internet search leader Google Inc. in an obscenity-laced tirade, and Google chased a prized Microsoft executive "like wolves," according to documents filed in an increasingly bitter legal battle between the rivals.
		Ballmer's threat last November was recounted in a sworn declaration by a former Microsoft engineer, Mark Lucovsky, who said he met with Microsoft's chief executive 10 months ago to discuss his decision to leave the company after six years.
		After learning Lucovsky was leaving to take a job at Google, Ballmer picked up his chair and hurled it across his office, according to the declaration.
	www.smh.com.au /news/technology/microsoft-ceo-im-going-to-fing-kill-google/2005/09/03/1125302772214.html (753 words)

	Steve Ballmer - AskMen.com
		Now CEO of Microsoft, Ballmer is one of the richest men in the world with a fortune estimated at $25 billion.
		Ballmer's role within the company at this early stage was to think about the bottom line.
		At this moment, although Gates remained chairman, Steve Ballmer assumed full management responsibility for the company, which came at a time when Microsoft's new vision was to empower people through software.
	www.askmen.com /men/business_politics_60/68_steve_ballmer.html (887 words)

	Steve Ballmer's Big Moves \| Fast Company
		Steve Ballmer didn't set out to run a big company.
		Since becoming Microsoft's CEO last year, Ballmer, 45, has been wrestling with all of the classic big-company tensions between innovation and inertia -- looking for ways to stay on the fast-growth track when most giants would inevitably slow down.
		At times, Ballmer can be his own toughest critic, worrying about Microsoft's slowing growth rate and the difficult interplay between all of its divisions.
	www.fastcompany.com /magazine/44/ballmer.html (675 words)

	Axis of Stevil - Its the Beginning of Stevilization
		As head Steve of M$, Ballmer has overseen the company’s domination of the computer industry, and robust growth in the fight for the home entertainment center.
		While always regarded highly in the community, Steve became the subject of great attention within the Stevil community when he was rumored to have purchased a fleet of yellow submarines.
		Unfazed by this, Steve Ballmer pledges to continue innovating and manipulating space-time to provide an integrated platform to enable a seamless experiences across a wide range of computing and non-PC devices and services.
	www.axisofstevil.com /steveballmer.htm (377 words)

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