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What do Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Scott McNealy have in common? They’re lucky.
If you’ve ever wondered why it’s the likes of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Scott McNealy and Eric Schmidt who are the successful ones who end up creating and running a hugely successful...
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Never let it be said that Steve Ballmer doesn’t have a sense of humour. Nor that Nashville students don’t have cojones. Because it takes a brave man to ask the Microsoft boss to sign his computer, when...
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What’s Steve Ballmer’s favourite Xbox game?
When he opened the floor for questions at the end of a speech on cloud computing this morning, Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer could hardly have expected the question posed to him by one plucky economics...
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What Microsoft employees think of Steve Ballmer
We can guess what Steve Ballmer thinks of Steve Ballmer’s tenure as Microsoft CEO, as he says his firm is doing just fine. “We’re a company that will make $26 billion pre-tax [this year], so I’m not...
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Stuart Turton’s Alternative Tech Awards of 2010
As we usher in 2011, how better to reflect on 2010 than with some awards. To that end, I present the “Stuart Turton in association with PC Pro but not officially endorsed by them Awards”. For...
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Has Ballmer lost the dressing room?
There are six words a football manager never wants to read about himself in a newspaper: “he has lost the dressing room”. Reports of mutiny in the ranks are almost inevitably followed days later with...
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Sinofsky and the power vacuum inside Microsoft
Ray Ozzie, Jeff Raikes, Robbie Bach, J Allard and now – most surprisingly of all – Steven Sinofsky: the list of internal candidates to succeed Steve Ballmer has been crossed off, one by one. This...
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Inside Steve Ballmer’s inbox
Few people will ever know what it’s like to run one of the world’s biggest companies, but for the past few months I’ve had the briefest of glimpses of what it’s like to read the top man’s emails. No,...
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Steve Ballmer returns to CES, but should he have stayed away?
With the return of a prodigal CEO, a Nascar winner, Star Trek actress, a Hollywood director, a pop band, and a very large, yellow bird, this year’s opening keynote for CES was certainly exciting — but...
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Meet the next CEO of Microsoft: Bill Gates
There are not many people who step down from a major role to spend more time with a company. But then Bill Gates is, or was, no ordinary company chairman. Many commentators claim that by resigning as...
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