Wonder What Mr. Balmer’s Pay Would Be if The Employees Got Their Way? Well, the guy is improving! Steve Ballmer’s favorability ratings by Microsoft employees jumped to 46% at the end of 2012, compared to a lowly 29% a year earlier Glassdoor.com published the data in December. This chan[...]
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January 24th, 2013 - 9:26 am § in Misc.
BALMER: Not good news for the Surface
Microsoft’s Surface tablet has been on the market for nearly three months. So far, not so good. Brent Thill, an analyst at UBS Investment Research, estimates that Microsoft sold just one million Surface tablets in the fourth quarter — half his original estimate of two million. Some other analyst[...]
January 13th, 2013 - 1:57 pm § in Misc.
Balmer: Office Depot’s Ad
Does Steve Balmer watch TV? Office Depot is offering an ad that he ought to see! The ad does a great job of demoing Windows 8 and the Surface … WITHOUT naming Microsoft, Windows OR the Surface! The machines they show are all Win 8 BUT the only company mentioned is APPLE![...]
January 10th, 2013 - 8:07 am § in Misc.
Maybe Balmer Would Buy the Huskies Too?
Is Microsoft Buying a Basketball Team? The media report that the Sacramento Kings are being sold to Chris Hansen and Microsoft MSFT +0.56% chief executive Steve Ballmer. Ballmer is said to be a devoted pickup basketball player with a reputation for having mean elbows. But, that is not all! St[...]
January 8th, 2013 - 10:33 am § in The Ave Scene
CES: Balmer NEEDS to hire someone else to impersonate himself
Qualcomm’s opening keynote today started with three young actors of the age that’s “born mobile” — those whose phones give them “the entire world in our hand.” Qualcomm Chief Executive Paul Jacobs is only the third person to fill the evening spot before th[...]
October 9th, 2011 - 9:07 am § in America, The Ave Scene
Waiting for Steve (Balmer)
The Coming Battle (based on a piece in the Huff Post) A new survey by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), in both China and America, showed that Windows easily outpaced iOS, MIcrosoft has a great opportunity, its own fanbase! John Rose, one of the lead authors of the report, told HuffPost tha[...]
February 19th, 2011 - 6:56 pm § in Misc.
Obama has dinner with tech industry CEOs , Balmer Absent
Where is Steve Balmer? Is he the only Republican tech industry CEO? By Vlad Savov posted Feb 18th 2011 at 11:30AM Barack Obama wining and dining the industry’s biggest decision makers. Larry Ellison, Eric Schmidt, Carol Bartz, Mark Zuckerberg, and yes, even Steve Jobs. Steve Balmer is co[...]
February 12th, 2011 - 1:38 am § in Uncategorized
Balmer Sweats for Techs!
Maybe .. just maybe, this will lead the admins to understand that the MBA ain;t such a good way to grow a workforce! Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer plans to extend a management shake-up aimed at adding senior product executives with an engineering background, two people with k[...]
October 9th, 2020 - 1:46 am § in The Ave Scene
Seattle Dominates the Computer World!
Seattle needs a better name than “Emerald City.” Every time I hear that dumb name, I think of Oz. Seattle should be called Cloud City! Seattle-based Cray to build world’s fastest supercomputer under $600M federal contract It may well be that the history of the 21st century wil[...]
October 6th, 2018 - 12:20 am § in Donald Trump
How ya doing?
The Trumpies are real good at Whattabout. Ask about the Russian scandal, the border farce, Puerto Rico, or Trump’s thuggish behavior and the answer always is .. look at the economy! Next the Trumpies roll out statistics they get from Fox News. Lots of statistics in a perverse version of rata[...]