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Microsoft's Ballmer attacks Android phones

Telegraph.co.uk - 19 Oct, 2011
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, has criticised Google's Android mobile phones for being too complicated. Steve Ballmer said Android users need to be computer scientists. By Emma Barnett, Digital Media Editor, in San Francisco The bullish ...

You have to be a computer scientist to use Android - Ballmer

Moneycontrol.com - 19 Oct, 2011
Google's Ice Cream Sandwich platform was just shown off and phones running it should arrive very soon. Microsoft's Steve Ballmer in an interview by Business Insider, spoke about the iPhone and Android and how the iPhone was Microsoft's main competition ...

Ballmer disses Android as cheap and complex

Register - 19 Oct, 2011
Web 2.0 Summit Steve Ballmer has predicted that the new line of Windows Phones coming out this Christmas can establish the company's operating system and beat Apple and Android devices. Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, an ebullient ...

Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, speaks at Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco

TechWeb - 19 Oct, 2011
Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, speaks at Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.

Ballmer Feels Lucky Microsoft Didn't Buy Yahoo in 2008

PCWorld - Juan Carlos Perez - 19 Oct, 2011
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer feels intensely fortunate that his company's $44 billion bid for Yahoo back in 2008 never materialized. "Sometimes you're lucky," he said with a smile at Web 2.0 Summit, responding to a ...

Microsoft CEO Ballmer Says Microsoft 'Lucky' It Didn't Buy Yahoo

BusinessWeek - Dina Bass - 19 Oct, 2011
Oct. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said Microsoft was “lucky” to have avoided buying Yahoo! Inc. in 2008 amid tumbling markets in the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Asked at ...

Microsoft CEO on not buying Yahoo: "Sometimes you're lucky"

CNN - Julianne Pepitone - 19 Oct, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO (CNNMoney) -- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer famously doesn't hold back, and a tech conference on Tuesday proved to be no exception. Ballmer expressed relief that Microsoft ...

CEO Ballmer's (non)answer on whether Microsoft will build its own Windows Phone

ZDNet (blog) - Mary Jo Foley - 19 Oct, 2011
Summary: Should Microsoft move to a more Apple-like model and make its own smartphone? Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer didn't provide a firm yes or no answer to that Web 2.0 Summit question. ...

Ballmer Slams Android While Defending Microsoft's Social Strategy

PC Magazine - Mark Hachman - 19 Oct, 2011
Microsoft may not offer a "social" offering, but the software giant will continue to offer services to "connect" its customers, said Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer. Ballmer was in high spirits in the closing conversation of the ...

Ballmer Thinks You Have To Be A Computer Scientist To Use Android (MSFT, GOOG)

San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - 19 Oct, 2011
Steve Ballmer views the iPhone as the main competitor -- or perhaps inspiration -- to Windows Phone, but thinks Android is a threat on price only. Interviewer John Battelle asked several times if Microsoft might try to build tablets and phones to ...

Ballmer on not buying Yahoo: 'Sometimes you're lucky'

CNET - Paul Sloan - 19 Oct, 2011
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, never one to hold back his feelings, today told the audience at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco that he was grateful he failed to buy Yahoo for $44 billion ...

Microsoft CEO Ballmer Says Microsoft 'Lucky' It Didn't Buy Yahoo

Bloomberg - Dina Bass - 19 Oct, 2011
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said Microsoft was “lucky” to have avoided buying Yahoo! Inc. in 2008 amid tumbling markets in the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings ...

U-Village store fits Microsoft consumer strategy

The Seattle Times - Janet I. Tu - 19 Oct, 2011
Nationwide, Microsoft plans to open two more stores this fall " in California and Virginia. And Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner said earlier this year that the company plans to get to 75 stores in the next two or three years. ...

Ballmer On Yahoo Miss: "Sometimes You're Lucky" (MSFT, YHOO)

San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - 19 Oct, 2011
Steve Ballmer says he feels lucky not to have bought Yahoo before the market crash. "Ask any CEO who might have bought something before the market crashed....Hallelujah. Putting everything else aside, the market fell apart....Sometimes, you're lucky. ...

Ballmer on previous Yahoo bid: 'Sometimes you're lucky'

ZDNet (blog) - Rachel King - 19 Oct, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO " Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer isn't known to be one to mince words, and he certainly offered many candid opinions while speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit on Tuesday evening. ...

Web 2.0 Summit 2011

CNET (blog) - Rafe Needleman - 19 Oct, 2011
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, never one to hold back his feelings, today told the audience at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco that he was grateful he failed to buy Yahoo for $44 billion back in 2008. "Sometimes you are lucky," he said in an ...

Dennis Crowley, Co-Founder of foursquare

TechWeb - 19 Oct, 2011
Dennis Crowley, Co-Founder of foursquare.

Microsoft unveils first ever multi-product Christmas advertising campaign

YouTube - 19 Oct, 2011
Our new global campaign, which showcases Windows, Windows Phone, Xbox for Kinect and Office.

Ahead of the Bell: Ballmer to speak at Web summit

CBS News - 19 Oct, 2011
(AP) SAN FRANCISCO " The head of Microsoft is among the keynote speakers Tuesday on the second day of a Web conference in San Francisco. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft Corp., is scheduled to speak Tuesday afternoon at the Web 2.0 Summit just after ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Hints At Company Manufactured Smartphones

The Inquisitr - 19 Oct, 2011
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Tuesday hinted that his company may eventually begin building their own smartphones rather than relying on third-party company's to accept their mobile operating systems. Currently WP7 Smartphones are all produced by ...

Microsoft's Ballmer Bashes Android, Google Apps, iPhone: Web 2.0 Summit

eWeek - Clint Boulton - 19 Oct, 2011
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer rocked the house here at the Web 2.0 Summit Oct. 18, bashing Google Apps, Android and yes, even Apple's hallowed iPhone. SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer pulled no punches in his appearance here at ...

Microsoft's Ballmer: Kinect's 'Second Generation Is Now Happening'

Gamasutra - Kris Graft - 19 Oct, 2011
Microsoft's Kinect motion-sensing camera for Xbox 360 is heading into its second holiday, and even with all the device's innovation, 365 days can seem like an eon in gadget-years. But Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, ...

Ballmer: 70% Of The Time, Google & Bing Are The Same, So Try Bing!

Search Engine Land - Danny Sullivan - 19 Oct, 2011
It's perhaps one of the strangest product pitches I've heard. Asked on stage at Web 2.0 Summit by John Battelle about his Bing search engine, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer encouraged the audience to try Bing because, well, it's pretty much the same as ...

Microsoft's Ballmer: 'Lucky' To Not Own Yahoo, Nokia WP7 Devices Next Week

paidContent.org - 19 Oct, 2011
Steve Ballmer knows he dodged a bullet. Not only did the global market collapse just after Yahoo's Jerry Yang turned down a $44 billion offer from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) for his company, but Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is, well, Yahoo. ...

Ballmer: Kinect platform will highlight new era of innovation, openness

VentureBeat - Chikodi Chima - 19 Oct, 2011
Speaking at the Web 2.o Summit today Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that the Kinect, camera-based, motion-sensitive, camera is going to be at heart of rush of innovation. “You're going to see a range of important innovation that will be coming to ...

Ballmer: We're beating Google in the cloud

GigaOm - Ryan Lawler - 19 Oct, 2011
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said his company was winning the battle for productivity applications in the cloud, and when it's winning, it's taking customers away from Google. And in doing so, ...

Ballmer on Nokia: Really looking forward to bunch of new devices next week

Pocket-lint.com - Stuart Miles - 19 Oct, 2011
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, has said that he is really looking forward to the “"bunch of new devices running Windows Phone" being announced at Nokia World suggesting multiple devices from the Finnish company running Windows Phone 7. ...

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer says "We don't have to take on every battle"

The Next Web (blog) - Drew Olanoff - 19 Oct, 2011
Steve Ballmer was at the Web 2.0 conference, and there was a main recurring theme. Social. The CEO of Microsoft said that “Apple has punted on social”, and discussed Microsoft's acquisition of Skype and deep partnership with Facebook, and would like ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Not Buying Yahoo: “Sometimes, You're Lucky”

Mashable - Ben Parr - 19 Oct, 2011
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says that Microsoft dodged a bullet when it failed to acquire Yahoo in 2008. In February 2008, the technology giant famously made an unsolicited $44.6 billion acquisition offer for Yahoo. Cofounder Jerry Yang (then Yahoo's ...

Ballmer: “We've picked our play” in social with Skype deal

VentureBeat - Dean Takahashi - 19 Oct, 2011
Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, said in a very loud conversation with co-host John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit that his company has made a big bet on social through both Skype and Xbox Live. Microsoft hasn't launched what some people ...

 

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