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Bill Gates Bids Farewell to his Colleagues with a Lump in his Throat

Despite my best efforts to distract the world's media from Bill Gates' departure from Microsoft yesterday, the software genius-turned philanthropist held his own. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has an audio file of the great man's two-minute speech to his employees in Redmond. His voice cracks when he mentions Steve Ballmer, and all the "incredible people" at the company he founded, and you can hear the pride in his voice when he talks about how they changed the world. "You've made it so much fun for me, there won't be a day in my life that I'm not thinking about Microsoft and the great things it's doing. Thank you for making it the center of my life and so much fun." Oh, that's set me off again. [Seattlepi via CNET]

11:00 AM on Sat Jun 28 2008
By AddyDugdale
5,328 views, 23 comments

Latest by WilCon: @kaneshadow: Nope we just don't care. more »

Bill Gates Retirement Party

Bill Gates Retirement Party

The time has come. On June 27th, Bill Gates will stop commuting to Microsoft's Redmond campus on a daily basis, and begin full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. You probably know that for Bill, retirement doesn't mean what it meant for your dear old granddad. He will still visit his Redmond office once per week, doing what Ballmer tells him to do. Nevertheless, it's the furthest Bill will ever separate himself from the software biz while he's living on this planet, so it's something to commemorate, for better or worse.

Be on the lookout for some loopy posts, some thought-provoking essays, some retro vids and galleries, plus some analysis of a Microsoft sans Bill. It's been a great run, Bill, and in the end we wish you well. So you'll forgive us if we roast you a bit during your final week on the job. [Bill Gates Retirement Party]

6:00 PM on Mon Jun 23 2008
By Wilson Rothman
5,912 views, 24 comments

Latest by n/a: it should be: retire /b /g instead of retire -b -g or does Bill use Linux after all? more »

Bill Gates Retirement Party

Ballmer: Running Microsoft 'Til 2017, and They're Going "Up, Baby, Up, Up, Up, Up, Up!"

Financial Times has probably the most in-depth Steve Ballmer interview in a while for Bill Gates' retirement party. A lot of it is spent on his obsession with search. But there are some savory sprinkles in the mix. Like, unless the board tosses him, we've got nine more years of shouty, sweaty Photoshops to look forward to. More »

5:00 PM on Mon Jun 23 2008
By matt buchanan
6,608 views, 34 comments

quotes

Ballmer Predicts Death of Printed Media

Little known fact (that we just made up): Steve Ballmer once had a newspaper thrown through his front window. After eating the newspaper delivery boy and his entire family , Ballmer sat down with to chat about the future with The Washington Post. And among other things, he pegged a date for the death of printed media: 10 years from now. More »

9:30 AM on Fri Jun 6 2008
By Mark Wilson
6,046 views, 79 comments

games

Ballmer Egg Attack Eulogized In Flash Game

Leave it to the Flash game makers of the world to treat a public egging with all the sensitivity and care of a mother kitten. While Steve Ballmer may have been attacked in Hungary, his sacrifice for Microsoft will not be forgotten. In Egg Attack!, you can play as the breakfast assassin or big Steve himself. Unfortunately, Ballmer doesn't get to fight back with his crazy tongue attack. He pretty much just gets to dodge and hide—and cry for yet another Egg McMuffin that never could be. [Egg Attack! via fakesteve]

8:48 AM on Mon Jun 2 2008
By Mark Wilson
6,623 views, 15 comments

Latest by Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!: He should've thrown a bowl full of Hungarian goulash. Scattershot with at least the prospect of some healthy, stinky splashback. more »

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Caption Contest: Steve Ballmer's Whiteboard From All Things Digital

During their interview last night at All Things D, Walt Mossberg called Steve Ballmer the "maestro of the whiteboard" and presented him with a fresh one to explain how online advertising works. We know what it is. You can see words like Publisher and Advertise and Data in the fringes, but what does it look like to you?

12:30 PM on Wed May 28 2008
By matt buchanan
5,595 views, 130 comments

Latest by n/a: Nerd's Anatomy of a Mythical "Female" more »

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All Things D Live: Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer Interview

UPDATE: Windows 7 photos and feature details here. Highlight videos, way easier to digest than my liveblog, are after the jump.
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9:16 PM on Tue May 27 2008
By Brian Lam
29,322 views, 75 comments

Latest by uberfu: @Stacky Botrus: you give Ballmer way too much credit! more »

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Steve Ballmer Egged in Hungary!

Steve Ballmer finally gets to join his buddy Bill Gates in the "food target club" after a visit to the Hungarian University of Economy. A guy (grad student? just some dude?) stood up, yelled "Give back the money of the taxpayers" in an accent Ballmer probably couldn't understand, and started throwing eggs at him. More »

1:41 PM on Mon May 19 2008
By Jason Chen
100,013 views, 112 comments

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Steve Baller Honored on the TIME 100 List by Guy Kawasaki

We make fun of Microsoft's Steve Ballmer all the time—we just did it again just now—but there's no denying what an influential figure he is. Even Guy Kawasaki, a guy who used to be Apple's chief evangelist, can't deny that he gets stuff done. Guy puts it this way: More »

7:30 PM on Thu May 1 2008
By Jason Chen
7,425 views, 34 comments

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Steve Ballmer's Presentation Laptop is a Strange Choice

"You do it to yourself, you do
And that's what really hurts."
— Radiohead. [Flickr]

Editor's note: nothing to be surprised about here. Even if he was using a MacBook for his presentation, who cares? Macs run Windows just like any other PC laptop, and also PowerPoint for Mac OS X. Probably Ballmer doesn't give a damn about what computer is running his presentation, as long as it runs Microsoft's software. —JD

12:10 AM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Haroon Malik
27,795 views, 97 comments

Latest by n/a: who care's if he's using a Apple laptop? microsoft doesn't make laptops, the he could be using boot camp to use windows. more »

yahoo

Ballmer Says Microsoft Ready for Future Without Yahoo

According to Steve yesterday, that $44.6 billion offer to buy Yahoo is "a lot of money," which comes as no surprise to anyone. But he followed it up by saying Microsoft is "prepared to move forward alone without Yahoo." Is he threatening to walk away? One suggestion to explain this is that employees inside Microsoft are uncomfortable: online services staff are wary about job futures, and others are worried the take-over will divert manager's attention off the key Microsoft business itself. What do you think guys? Is this it for the deal? Or is it just another tactic in the game? [WSJ]

7:57 AM on Thu Apr 24 2008
By Kit Eaton
2,720 views, 26 comments

Latest by n/a: @Noobs-R-Us: Oh don't get me wrong. He's no Gates but he's certainly not Mr Thicky McThick-Person. Nor is he the CEO of a huge multinational corporation either, but that's where he appears to be. Ah well. more »

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Xbox 360 + Blu-ray Drive Rumor Fueled By Steve Ballmer

If the Sony exec saying there've been talks with Microsoft about making a Blu-ray Xbox 360 add-on wasn't enough to make you believe that a drive is coming, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer just said "Toshiba has moved on. We've moved on, and we'll support Blu-ray in ways that make sense." [Games Industry]

4:30 PM on Fri Mar 7 2008
By Jason Chen
13,342 views, 39 comments

the other steve

Ballmer Talks iPhone SDK, Screams Again

After dismissing the iPhone as "silly" last year (just to see it crushing Windows Mobile's market share a few days ago,) The Other Steve spilt his thoughts on the iPhone announcement yesterday, all during the Mix'08 keynote with Guy Kawasaki. Ballmer touched on Adobe-Flash-wannabe Silverlight on the iPhone, Apple's cut on iPhone's application distribution and Apple's ActiveSync license. All good, until he reprised his chimptastic "developers, developers, developers" screams, which got caught on (YES!) video:

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6:25 AM on Fri Mar 7 2008
By Jesus Diaz
19,310 views, 82 comments

Latest by Gary_7vn: @maxshanly: Nein. But the Britisher ones do. [www.religioustolerance.org] more »

zune

Zune Originals Steve Ballmer Edition (We Miss Gates So Much)

This Zune Original Steve Ballmer edition is good. Its unapologetic adolescent humor was jut the ticket to making us lol a bit on a Friday morning. (In truth, it's tough to screw up a Ballmer parody.) But it made little Christmas lights illuminate in our otherwise dusty heads. Our question to you: Who wouldn't want a Bill Gates edition Zune, complete with dorky laser-etched caricature and maybe a few soundclips from the big man himself? Seriously, it would sell like the metaphorical "hot cakes," if said metaphor were to procreate with a popular portable media player. So let's make this happen, Microsoft. [iphonesavior via crunchgear]

9:18 AM on Fri Nov 16 2007
By Mark Wilson
7,260 views, 11 comments

Latest by Pixlmonkey: @coolrepublica: Haha, now why don't you turn this plea into a youtube video? more »

pcs

Nigeria Settles on Mandriva Linux, Not Windows, for its Classmate PCs

The Nigerian government finally agreed to run Mandriva's Linux build on its portion of an order of 17,000 Intel Classmate PCs. The 2GB Wi-Fi laptops were initially scheduled to have Mandriva Linux, but then Microsoft apparently got into a bidding war, offering up a low-priced Windows version. On Halloween, things turned fugly. More »

10:14 AM on Mon Nov 12 2007
By Wilson Rothman
5,120 views, 19 comments

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Steve Ballmer's Costume Dungeon Makes Halloween That Much Scarier

Halloween is all about dressing up, and if you're not so into dressing yourself up, there's no way you won't enjoy dressing up Microsoft honcho and complete madman Steve Ballmer. This shouldn't be as fun as it is, it really shouldn't. I made Ballmer look like a ballerina! Ah-haw-haw-haw! [Joy of Tech]

1:20 PM on Wed Oct 31 2007
By Adam Frucci
3,577 views, 6 comments

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Ballmer Describes Relationship with Gates as "Husband-Wife," Brings Wrong Images to our Minds

Steve Ballmer has revealed that his relationship with the world's most famous Zune owner, Bill Gates, is akin to that of a husband and wife. In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, everyone's favorite chief exec talked about "the husband-wife-brother thing," he has goin' on with Bill Gates. And then he just took the analogy one step too far: More »

9:00 AM on Mon Oct 15 2007
By AddyDugdale
6,585 views, 15 comments

fr-enemies unite

Microsoft and Yahoo Shopping for Rings (Again)

The Wall Street Journal says that Microsoft and Yahoo are back to talking about a merger, after a serious flirtation a year ago. Seems the Goog has grown stronger of late (something to do with utter dominance of online advertising, coupled with new and promising consumer software apps) and one thing Yahoo and Microsoft can do about it is get together, like platonic friends from college who meet up again, desperate and lonely, at their 10-year reunion. Will it work? Can you imagine the branding nightmare? They say "merger" but can you really see Gates, Ballmer and the rest of Redmond sharing the keynote stage, especially with Terry Semel? Feel free to share your vision of the scariest (or most surprisingly utopian) Microsoft-Yahoo mashup. – Wilson Rothman More »

11:00 AM on Fri May 4 2007
By Wilson Rothman
2,002 views, 37 comments

Latest by PhotoMan: MS & Yahoo, it's like the two ugly nerdy kids that never get off with anyone at the school prom, so they drink shots behind the bike shed and end up fondling each other while they recite C++ code. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww! Apple & more »

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