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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. but..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did they mention his important work in the field of chairodynamics?

    or

    How about his charitable donations of 288,000 pints of human sweat?

  2. Come on, he's a Friend of Linux... by smitty777 · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...NOT. According to him, it's

    " a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

    It must fly in the face of every business practice he's come up with.

    --
    "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish"
    Albert Einstein