Kicking off Microsoft’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference in LA, Steve Ballmer touted the company’s achievements touching on Xbox 360, Bing and Windows 8. But on Windows Phone 7, he was forced to admit that the mobile OS has struggled to make an impact.
While Ballmer boasted about 400m sales of Windows 7 licences in the past twelve months compared to an unnamed company’s figure of 20m (hello, Mac OS X), he was rather more sheepish about the first year figures for Windows Phone 7…
Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer is under fire again. David Einhorn, the head of Greenlight Capital and a long-time Microsoft shareholder, has struck out at the CEO slamming his leadership and suggesting that it is the main reason the software giant’s share price has remained stagnant.
See if you can guess what the major issues Einhorn says Ballmer has called wrong and click through to see if you’re right…
There’s been plenty of Windows 8 leaks but Steve Ballmer has officially spilled the beans on when we can expect the next generation operating system to break cover…
Microsoft founder Paul Allen releases his memoir tomorrow and he’s gunning for Bill Gates. He says: “I just felt it was like an important part of technology history and I should tell it like it happened.” He talks about the period after he was diagnosed with cancer when he claims he overheard Gates, his best friend and co-founder, complaining that he was “unproductive” to now Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. You can see his 60 Minutes interview after the break… Read more
Microsoft’s big problem is an obsession with Windows. So say a raft of insiders and former Microsoft employees who’ve been spilling the beans to Fortune and bashing Steve Ballmer while they’re at it.
In a wide-ranging analysis of how most of Microsoft lost its way (Xbox group, we’re letting you off for that and the Kinect), Ballmer gets a battering, and the company’s continued focus on Windows is highlighted as its biggest problem. Microsoft insiders told Fortune that if you threw Microsoft onto the analyst’s couch you’d find it’s stuck in an unhealthy co-dependent relationship with Windows…
At Steve Ballmer’s MWC 2011 keynote we were treated to a look at what will be coming to Windows Phone 7 handsets in the near future. Updates will add a raft of new features, including Twitter integration and multitasking. Read on for more information.
Microsoft is set for a shakeup. Rumours from Redmond suggest Steve Ballmer is seeking engineers for senior executive roles in the company. Changes to the top team are reportedly due this month after Ballmer bounced 23-year company veteran and server division king Bob Muglia out of the picture.
I had thought that Kinect hacks would be the source of Microsoft Kinect‘s true science fiction credentials but it turns out those crazy folk at Redmond got there first. For all the tech journalist wittering (and I’m as guilty of it as anyone) about Minority Report, the technology Kinect is most likely to make real from the sci-fi canon is Star Trek’s Holodeck. At the end of 2010, I predicted that Kinect would deliver the Holodeck and thanks to CES, the first version has arrived already. It’s called Avatar Kinect…
