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Microsoft CES 2011 keynote in funny faces: photos

January 6, 2011 5:53 am by Jennifer Allan

Categories: Gadgets, Gadgets Tags: ces 2011, keynote, kinect, Microsoft, steve ballmer

At today’s Microsoft CES keynote we heard from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, but also from heads of mobile gaming and computing, including Liz Sloan from Windows Phone 7, Mike Angiulo from Windows 7. But what unites them except for the fact they work for Microsoft? They all pull funny faces. Very funny faces. Saying that though, Gary Shapiro, CEO of CES, seems to have caught the bug too, although it could just be something catching in our camera. You decide: click through for Microsoft funny face photo gallery.

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Microsoft Kinect outsells the iPad: 8m shifted in first 60 days

January 6, 2011 5:01 am by Jennifer Allan

Categories: Gadgets, Gaming Tags: 360, ces 2011, kinect, Microsoft, steve ballmer, Xbox, Xbox Live

At today’s CES keynote, Steve Ballmer announced that Kinect has sold 8m units in the first 60 days of being on sale. That’s a massive increase on the 2.5m that the Kinect had sold back at the end of November, a month after launch. To put it in perspective, these Kinect sales figures mean that Kinect has outsold the iPad.

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Who is the tech don of 2010?

December 17, 2010 1:33 pm by Jennifer Allan

Categories: Apps & Software, Gadgets Tags: Apple, Eric Schmidt, Facebook, Google, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, sergey brin, steve ballmer, Steve Jobs, tech

This year has been strong for the big guys: Steve Jobs brought out the iPhone, Steve Ballmer did Kinect and Windows Phone 7 within the space of a few months. Google has launched its second phone, and a raft of other services and improvements, and Zuckerberg was immortalised on the silver screen. But who’s the tech don of 2010? Click and tell us who you think is the most important tech personality of 2010…

Do you feel like an idiot playing Kinect?

November 16, 2010 12:01 pm by Jennifer Allan

Categories: Gaming, Polls Tags: kinect, Microsoft, steve ballmer

Kinect just trumped Move in our poll yesterday, where we asked you which was better, Kinect or Move. We’ve all seen the adverts, or had a go on Kinect, and watched all the demonstrative flailing it requires. Question is, do you feel like an idiot playing Kinect, or is the thought of Steve Ballmer leaping around to beach volleyball enough to quash any fears that you might be the one looking silly? Click and tell…

Apple Dictionary easter egg? Ballmer = baloney

November 12, 2010 2:32 pm by Mic Wright

Categories: Apps & Software Tags: Apple, dictionary, IOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Microsoft, steve ballmer

Apple dictionary has a rather passive aggressive auto-correct that made us lol like IM-addicted teens this morning. Write “Ballmer” as in Microsoft emperor of ace dancing and CEO Steve Ballmer, and you’ll instead be given Baloney. A comment on what Apple think’s of Ballmer’s opinion of the iPhone et al? We wouldn’t be surprised. If you haven’t got a Ballmer in your address book or added the word to the dictionary on your iOS device, you’ll get a taste of the baloney too. Try it out and hit the headline to jump to the comments and tell us about any other Apple iOS easter eggs you may have come across. Wonder what Windows Phone 7 gives you if you type Steve Jobs…

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Microsoft to buy Adobe to battle Apple? Somewhere Steve Jobs yawns

October 8, 2010 11:03 am by Mic Wright

Categories: Apps & Software Tags: adobe, Apple, flash, Microsoft, Shantanu Narayen, Silverlight, steve ballmer, Steve Jobs

Microsoft and Adobe have been have secret meetings, according to a new report. Microsoft’s balling big boss, Steve Ballmer apparently rocked up at Adobe with a “small entourage” to talk to its chief exec, Shantanu Narayen. On the agenda? Microsoft buying Adobe and how battle that swine Steve Jobs and those awful meanies at Apple…
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Almost half of Microsoft staff don’t believe in Ballmer

October 7, 2010 10:42 am by Jennifer Allan

Categories: Computers & Accessories Tags: CEO, confidence, Microsoft, steve ballmer

Only just over half of Microsoft employees have confidence in Steve Ballmer’s performance as CEO, according to a Glassdoor.com survey. While Ballmer has always had his naysayers after taking over from golden boy Bill Gates, now it seems a chunk of these people might be his own employees.

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Caption contest: What’s Steve Ballmer thinking?

October 7, 2010 9:55 am by James Holland

Categories: Competitions, Gadgets Tags: steve ballmer

We’ve been rifling through our memory cards after Steve Ballmer gave a speech to the London School of Economics this week, and came across this corking photo. What’s Ballmer thinking? Click the Read More button (or scroll down), drop your captions in the comments section below, and the best one will win an Electricpig mug!

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