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Ballmer questions Google’s growth strategy
There was some mudslinging going on in Palo Alto yesterday when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke to a group of Stanford Graduate School of Business students. He said his rival, Google, was trying
Read more…Microsoft gets on-demand religion
In his keynote address yesterday at Microsoft’s annual Convergence conference in San Diego, Steve Ballmer told attendees he is going up market with on-demand versions of the firm’s enterprise
Read more…Linux users to Ballmer: Show us the code!
If you’ve been following the Steve Ballmer vs. the people of Linux story, you’ll know that the Microsoft CEO continues to publicly claim that Linux “uses [Microsoft] intellectual property.” Ballmer has yet to back this statement up with any examples or even hints of what that intellectual property might be, …
Read more…Microsoft’s Ballmer: "open source is not free"
Remember back in November when Steve Ballmer bullishly claimed that Linux uses Microsoft intellectual property? Though many at the time dismissed Ballmer’s comments as idle posturing during a period of heated exchange with Novell, it appears that the Microsoft CEO isn’t quite ready to let go of the notion that Linux users owe Microsoft something. “I would not anticipate that we make a huge additional revenue stream …
Read more…iPhone backlash begins, fanboys cower in fear
Well, it’s now been over one week since Steve Jobs’s iPhone announcement and just like clockwork, here comes the backlash! It seems like today is the day for running negative articles on the iPhone (though that’s not to say that some publications didn’t start the party early, i.e. during the keynote). First off, Engadget is reporting that the iPhone’s price is 50 percent profit, based on manufacturing …
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