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Apple shares hit rock bottom as investors lose faith
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Mimicking Microsoft under Steve Ballmer

Apple's share price has fallen for the last few weeks. Today, it hit a low for the year, closing at €156.86.

Steve Ballmer admits: “I am Chicken”
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Thursday, 24 March 2022 13:43

Steve Ballmer admits: “I am Chicken”


He really is shy and retiring

The shy and retiring former CEO of Microsoft Steve [sounds of silence] Ballmer has admitted that the Inquirer and Fudzilla were right about him all along and he is really an introvert and a “bit chicken.”

Steve Ballmer wanted Cortana to be called Bingo
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More Microsoft branded

The much missed, shy and retiring, delightfully understated former Microsoft CEO Steve “there’s a kind of hush” Ballmer wanted to call Voles Cortana AI “Bingo.”

Linux is 30 years old
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Thursday, 26 August 2021 11:56

Linux is 30 years old


Still not on the desktop but not even Steve Ballmer saw this day coming

On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds, then a student at the University of Helsinki in Finland, sent a message to the comp.os.minix newsgroup soliciting feature suggestions for a free Unix-like operating system he was developing as a hobby.

Microsoft admits it was on the wrong side of history
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Ballmer was wrong about Open Source

Microsoft’s current president Brad Smith has accepted the company was on the wrong side of history when it called Open Sauce software cancer.

Sorry Steve, Open Source beat you
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Monday, 30 December 2019 10:12

Sorry Steve, Open Source beat you


How Open Source conquered the world

CNBC Explores released a 14-minute documentary this month called "The Rise Of Open-Source Software" that open-source software "has essentially taken over the world".

PCs still lucrative, whispers Ballmer
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Friday, 11 October 2019 10:25

PCs still lucrative, whispers Ballmer


This is not a repeat from 2009

The shy and retiring former CEO of Microsoft Steve “there’s a kind of hush” Ballmer has whispered to the assembled throngs at GeekWire Summit 2019 that PCs are still lucrative.

Wednesday, 05 February 2014 09:49

The seven cardinal sins of Steve Ballmer

Sins, Zunes, Kins and terrible acquisitions

Tuesday, 04 February 2014 15:29

Satya Nadella is new Microsoft CEO

 

Third CEO comes from cloud and enterprise



Who did not see that coming