Steve Ballmer

...who has since been named the Windows president, is a one-time technical assistant to Bill Gates who was tapped by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in 2006 to lead Windows engineering, following Windows Vista's repeated delays and glitches.

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...Steve Balmer along with Chairman Bill Gates in attendance. While Gates did not take or answer any questions, Balmer took questions on a variety of topics from Apple to Android. According to TechFlash shareholders questioned Balmer about...

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...shareholders asked CEO Steve Ballmer about Apple at their annual meeting this morning. Steve's CEO-speak responses illustrate the larger problem. Portfolio reports that one investor asked about the company's reputation with young...

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...$100,000 to support Referendum 71, Washington's domestic partnership initiative. Chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer each gave $25,000 as well. Last night, with Microsoft's help, Washington voters appear to have become the first...

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...of the law came from Microsoft Corp., which gave $100,000 to the effort. Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer and co-founder Bill Gates each gave $25,000. TV ads in support of the law started running statewide earlier this month, while those...

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...involvement in the company. The son of a Ford Motor Co manager from Detroit, Ballmer was brought in by Gates, whom he knew from Harvard University, as Microsoft's first business manager in 1980. His stocky ebullience was always the...

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...and Gates asked Ballmer to drop out of school and join his startup company, Microsoft. "Doug told me I would be nuts to take the job," Ballmer said. "Doug told me he was going to go work for a startup called Great Plains Software in Fargo.

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