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Ballmer Hits 10th Anniversary As Microsoft CEO

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bill-icon-remains-intact dept.

bednarz writes "Ten years ago on Jan. 13, 2000, Microsoft's Bill Gates turned over the CEO reins to Steve Ballmer. Back in 2000, Microsoft was still under threat of being broken up by the Department of Justice. Today, Ballmer is trying to meld enterprise and cloud computing. He has spent the past decade working through lawsuits, mergers, acquisitions, competitive battles and, of course, new software including Windows 7, which could become the legacy of his leadership at Microsoft. Not that we'll ever forget Ballmer's 'developers, developers, developers' rant."

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  1. Re:Also titled by jgreco · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sorry. My bad.

  2. Re:Chairs??? by Opportunist · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Puns don't improve when you highlight them. Not doing it is the whole point of them. People feel witty when they can spot them and it fills them with a sense of intellectualism.

    Thanks for spoiling it for our readers. Bet you're one of those guys in the theater who tells everyone when he figured out who's the murderer.

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  3. Re:Chairs??? by Yvan256 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    (Score: -1, Redundant/Woosh/We-understood-the-joke-thank-you-very-much)