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	Steve Ballmer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Steven Anthony Ballmer (born March 24, 1956) is an American businessman and the chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation since January 2000.
		Ballmer is the first person ever 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/Steven_Ballmer (877 words)

	CEO BIO: Steven A. Ballmer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Steven A. Ballmer has been Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corp., the world's leading manufacturer of software for personal and business computing, since January 2000 assuming full management responsibility for Microsoft Corp. Mr.
		Ballmer also is presently leading the most comprehensive reinvention of Microsoft in the company's 25 years.
		Ballmer understands that Microsoft must be part of a community of partners, each providing a special focus and added value.
	www.businessweek.com /bw50/2005/executive/MSFT.htm (370 words)

	Microsoft Ballmer's Plan BW 6-17-02
		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 elevated the importance of something he calls the "organizational health index," a key factor in measuring executive performance.
		Ballmer needs smoother relations with an industry that is wary of Microsoft's every move because he wants others to adopt Microsoft's technologies.
	faculty.msb.edu /homak/HomaHelpSite/WebHelp/Microsoft_Ballmer_s_Plan_BW_6-17-02.htm (3503 words)

	Steve Ballmer - Uncyclopedia
		Steve Ballmer is a Homer Simpson lookalike and professional hitman for Nikita Khrushchev.
		On very rare occasions, Steve Ballmer will attempt to kill a verb, we think this is the reverse of the Teen Girl Squad custom of putting 'd at the end of a noun to make it a verb.
		Ballmer was quick to patent this new pheromone and kill the scientists who made the discovery for violating his patent.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Ballmer (1207 words)

	Steve Ballmer 1956— - COMPETITIVE FROM THE START, MAKING MICROSOFT, LEGAL TROUBLES
		Ballmer's earliest role was as head recruiter for the fast-growing firm; although he was not a programmer himself, Ballmer could recognize technical talent.
		Ballmer was ahead of Gates in recognizing the importance of the Internet in the early 1990s, and in 1995 the company launched the Microsoft Network and its own Web browser, Internet Explorer, to compete with Netscape, one of the earliest browser programs.
		Ballmer viewed this focus on interoperability as a major shift in the information technology industry, comparable to the introduction of the graphical user interface in the 1980s.
	www.referenceforbusiness.com /biography/A-E/Ballmer-Steve-1956.html (1733 words)

	AskMen.com - Steve Ballmer pics
		Steven Anthony Ballmer was born on March 24th, 1956 in Detroit, Michigan.
		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_60/68c_steve_ballmer.html (686 words)

	Ballmer: No sleep lost over Linux \| Newsmakers \| CNET News.com
		Steve Ballmer had the stage to himself Thursday in San Francisco as he introduced Windows Server 2003, a new version of the company's server operating system that Microsoft's CEO described as "the right product" to help companies stretch their IT budgets.
		Ballmer, playing up to his legendary image as a hard-driving salesman, did not mince words in discounting the gathering threat to Microsoft's ambitions posed by the Penguinistas.
		Although Microsoft has distanced itself from Ballmer's earlier criticisms that the license governing Linux makes the software a "cancer," the CEO still believes that Linux is qualitatively different and that its license poses insurmountable problems.
	news.com.com /2008-1082-998297.html (2379 words)

	AskMen.com - Steve Ballmer
		Now CEO of Microsoft, Ballmer is one of the richest men in the world with a fortune estimated at $25 billion.
		If it wasn't for Steve Ballmer, there's a good chance Bill Gates' social life might have never taken off, as it was Ballmer who dragged him to parties during their Harvard days.
		Some people believe that Ballmer is a ferocious enemy, a man that will stop at nothing to get a business edge over other software companies.
	www.askmen.com /men/business_politics_60/68_steve_ballmer.html (450 words)

	KOIN.com: Local News, Weather, Sports, Entertainment and Health (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		On hand was Microsoft CEO Steven Ballmer, one of the most powerful men in the business and high-tech world.
		Ballmer's appearance is due to a Microsoft donation of $200,000 to fund the Microsoft Innovation Center.
		Of course, we focus on Ballmer because he's worth more than $13 billion and is the chief executive of one of the biggest and most powerful companies in the world.
	www.koin.com /sports.asp?ID=3899 (262 words)

	Microsoft's Ballmer Intense (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Ballmer, who has been president of Microsoft for a year and a half, is known for his fist-pounding, bellowing, bombastic style.
		Though some suspect it is one of the most finely honed acts in the industry, no one disputes the passion he brings to his role as the industry's supersalesman.
		Ballmer is stepping forward to guide Microsoft's day-to-day business as the company faces an array of competitive and legal assaults.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/01/17/BU105768.DTL (311 words)

	Microsoft Makes Its Case That It Is a Growth Stock - New York Times
		Ballmer said he had had trouble selling the long-term value of Microsoft stock even to the company's own employees.
		Ballmer, the company's chief booster, pointed out that since 2000, when the company was fighting a bitter federal antitrust case, it had actually increased its market share among the industry's top 25 information technology companies.
		Ballmer said he had asked Microsoft employees generally - not its executives - whether they were buying the company's stock, and had found no takers.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/07/29/technology/29soft.html?ex=1280289600&en=47d127a6def7f288&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (934 words)

	World Congress on Information Technology 2006
		Steven A. Ballmer is Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation, the worlds leading manufacturer of software for personal and business computing.
		Ballmer was born in March 1956, and 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.
		While in college, Ballmer managed the football team, worked on the Harvard Crimson newspaper as well as the university literary magazine, and lived down the hall from fellow sophomore Bill Gates.
	www.wcit2006.org /wcit.aspx?id=256&LangType=1033&idb=200 (321 words)

	Bad Boy Ballmer
		While "Monkey Boy" Ballmer, as portrayed by Maxwell, is passionless (he's committed to cancer research and was devastated over the deaths of his beloved parents, Fred and Bea), he exhibits a singularity of purpose the Borg exemplify.
		Ballmer is actually more of a chameleon than the Borg is, and perhaps this is why Maxwell concludes by saying, "Steve Ballmer can remind you of many people."
		Michigan and Seattle history, as well as Jewish identity (Ballmer is Jewish) and its contribution to Ballmer's psychology give the book that touch of individuality that a portrait of one of the highest-paid American employees, and one of its most controversial companies, deserves.
	www.myshelf.com /biography/04/badboyballmer.htm (339 words)

	Compatibility, and Not Just in Products (Steven A. Ballmer) - 10e20 Website Design Latest News
		Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, and his counterpart and onetime archenemy at Sun Microsystems, Scott McNealy, took the stage in a hotel conference room here today to report on their efforts to make their software programs communicate.
		The collaboration was announced a year ago in the wake of the landmark settlement to Sun's antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft.
		Ballmer to Beavis and Butthead punctuated the long Sun-Microsoft rivalry - could not resist redirecting his fire at I.B.M., a sometime ally.
	www.10e20webdesign.com /news/news_center_latest_technology_internet_news_14_may_05_Compatibility_and_Not_Just_in_Products.htm (638 words)

	TechEd: Ballmer pushes greater platform integration
		During a wide-ranging keynote address Monday, Ballmer talked about security trends, spam and Web services, and he hinted that Microsoft will create a unified platform for its disparate enterprise applications.
		Ballmer applauded what he called customers' "insistence on responsiveness" from Microsoft to their concerns, although he said they would reap greater productivity benefits if they more quickly adopted Redmond's latest technology and stopped demanding "features, features, features."
		Ballmer, who said he feels "icky sometimes" when he sees the offensive content of spam that floods his own e-mail inbox, said the work that Microsoft is doing on e-mail authentication technology will help reduce spam by "Two, three, four orders of magnitude."
	searchwinit.techtarget.com /vsnetOriginalItem/0,293826,sid8_gci967183,00.html (644 words)

	GamersGame.com Blog: Even the Ballmer Children Are Xboxless
		Ballmer commented to the Citizen: "In these new consumer electronics devices based on new chips, there's always the question of what yield will you get out of the manufacturing process of the new chip.
		Steven Ballmer also noted that his own children still do not have an Xbox.
		In addition, in remarks at a technology executive conference reported by Reuters, Ballmer quipped, in an apparent attempt to defuse some of the frustration over limited stocks of Microsoft's next-gen console: "The Ballmer children do not have their Xbox 360 yet.
	www.gamersgame.com /cgi-bin/ggblog.pl?ggblog=1208051 (321 words)

	Microsoft chief tries, fails to stop outcry -- Queer Lesbian Gay News -- Gay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Ballmer explained that the company decided not to take an official stance o
		To quell the growing outcry over Microsoft's decision to pull its support for a Washington state nondiscrimination bill, CEO Steven A. Ballmer defended Microsoft's decision Friday night in an e-mail to 35,000 U.S. employees.
		Ballmer explained that the company decided not to take an official stance on the legislation in order to back away from involvement in "social issues" -- not because of pressure from an influential pastor, as many papers had reported.
	www.gay.com /news/article.html?coll=news_articles&sernum=2005/04/25/1&page=1 (437 words)

	Unauthorized biography of Steve Ballmer turns up little new (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer declined to be interviewed for the book, as did virtually every other current and former top officer at the company.
		Ballmer is usually in such a hurry that when he signs his name, the cross of the "t" in Steven appears above the "n."
		They are interesting as an (oft-told) history of the company's behavior, but they don't shed any light on Ballmer himself or his role.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /business/86841_ballmer13.shtml (1000 words)

	An open letter to Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer - Softpedia
		Steven Ballmer for your entertaining exposee of Linux's deepest, darkest secret - that it can seriously worry the senior executive of a convicted predatory monopoly, without that ever having been the intention of its principal software designer and initial developer.
		I would also like to thank you for humming and hawing around the question of the release of source code to people who can use it, in the light of the new MVP source code entitlement program.
		In relation to your comments, Steve Ballmer, on Linux's "road map", I will refrain from expounding on Linus Torvalds' comment on the cover of one of Bill Gates' books, showing him standing in the middle of an empty road.
	news.softpedia.com /news/2/2003/October/5378.shtml (702 words)

	Amazon.ca: Bad Boy Ballmer: The Man Who Rules Microsoft: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Readers learn that Ballmer was born in an affluent Detroit suburb, is of Jewish heritage, was a classic overachiever who worked his way into Harvard, dropped out of Stanford Business School and was briefly employed as a brand manager for Procter & Gamble.
		In his introduction, Maxwell gushes that Ballmer's is the "incredible story of tremendous ambition, genius, and charisma, of intense drive and merit, of insatiable greed and blatant arrogance." But there is in fact so little Ballmer and so much Microsoft in this book, it is a stretch to call this effort a biography.
		Maxwell initially had Ballmer's cooperation on this unauthorized biography, but then he backed down, so personal access was limited.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0066210143 (1146 words)

	Steven Ballmer - ForbesAutos.com
		With oil running through his veins, one might assume that Ballmer would have a fleet of Ferraris, Porsches and Rolls-Royces.
		Steven Ballmer stays true to his Detroit roots by driving a 1998 Lincoln Continental.
		On the horizon: a Lincoln Zephyr, but expect Ballmer to pile on at least another 10,000 miles first.
	www.forbesautos.com /advice/toptens/billionaire/11-steven_ballmer.html (99 words)

	The New York Times > Technology > European Antitrust Official Chastises Microsoft's Chief
		Steven A. Ballmer, the chief executive of Microsoft, paid a call Tuesday on Europe's competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, in Brussels.
		Microsoft's chief executive, Steven A. Ballmer, met with Europe's top antitrust official, Neelie Kroes, on Tuesday evening, only to be told that Microsoft must comply with Europe's antitrust ruling "urgently and in full," her spokesman, Jonathan Todd, said Wednesday.
		Ballmer's hastily arranged visit was a charm offensive - and one that fell flat.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/04/28/technology/28soft.html?ex=1272340800&en=824ecb4dbc812be1&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (729 words)

	WinMag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Ballmer Makes Pitch To Woo Carriers To NT ATLANTA -- Microsoft president Steven Ballmer used his keynote at SuperComm '99 here Tuesday to rally support for Windows NT in carrier networks and to discuss the blurring borders between telecommunications service providers and software makers.
		Ballmer added Monday's release of the latest version of Office also includes partnerships with two ISPs -- Verio and Concentric Networks -- both of which will host the applications.
		Microsoft's communications strategy is to relate its PC model to the high end of the market, Ballmer said.
	www.winmag.com /news/1999/0601/0608d.htm (411 words)

	Axis of Stevil - Its the Beginning of Stevilization
		Steven A Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft (which will herein referred as "M$"), devoted husband, and avid investor, often finds himself on top of odd situations.
		As head Steve of M$, Ballmer has overseen the company’s domination of the computer industry, and robust growth in the fight for the home entertainment center.
		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)

	India is magic in software: Steve Ballmer
		Thirty per cent of the world's graduates in software are from India and a big part of the talent responsible for innovation is from this country's universities, he said.
		A number of studies have pointed out that the telephone is one of the biggest innovations for creating wealth in the country, he said.
		Commenting on Apple's I-Pod, Ballmer said that Microsoft had no plans to launch a competitive product, as all the features available on the hand-held device would be available on a cellphone in five years.
	www.rediff.com /money/2004/nov/17ms.htm (516 words)

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