Comments on: Steve Ballmer Visits Silicon Valley, Talks About Microsoft’s Future In Software, Search And Mobile

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» Blog Archive » Cloud + Client — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:52:46 +0000

[...] moments as sequences, ranked and streamed according to the logic of each section, and Obama won. Listen again to Ballmer and you hear a tough competitor, cagey and jovial, more relaxed than I’ve seen him in years. [...]

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Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:53:25 +0000

[...] on 09 Oct 2008 at 04:53 pm | Tagged as: Uncategorized CEO of MSFT, Steve Ballmer, stated in an interview at a Churchill Club Event in Silicon Valley that although his company resides in third place in the search race, it would continue to devote 5 [...]

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Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:45:39 +0000

[...] 2002 to 2007, over 300 venture backed start-ups had exits (peaking at 465 in 2007). Steve Ballmer just mentioned that Microsoft plans to continue making 20 acquisitions a year, most for under $100M. Over the last [...]

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Cloud + Client | Web Data Source — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:11:35 +0000

By: akkdio

akkdio — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:45:27 +0000

is it me or does this video keep starting over and stopping and starting… Can we post it somewhere else?

By: Joel Toledano

Joel Toledano — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:48:40 +0000

I was at the Hummer Winblad table (courtesy of being funded by Ann, the moderator …) – no wonder we didn’t see each other, though, it was a packed house!

By: Cloud + Client

Cloud + Client — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:49:26 +0000

By: FI

FI — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:44:55 +0000

Will on window live now. He is a genius.

By: Quikboy

Quikboy — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:50:06 +0000

Great, the usual haters. Windows Live and Live Search have their own unique features that I like (Image & Video search, Messenger, Writer, etc.), and Google has it’s own nice stuff (ads, web search, etc.).

Some people like to rag on MS, without even trying their stuff. Or just using it only for a few minutes and finding a reason to say “yuck” and move somewhere else. Microsoft’s making some progress, just slowly.

By: jerry

jerry — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:32:55 +0000

useless rant

By: Denis

Denis — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:19:33 +0000

i was at microsoft vc summit 2008 (palo alto) steve was keynote. you can read 1hr speach here http://www.micr...25vcsummit.mspx . it was interesting, my colleagues have audio stream

By: JoeG

JoeG — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:31:47 +0000

It’s in their 10K report, well 8.2B for their fiscal year, and increasing.
http://sec.gov/....htm#tx31450_19

By: West Virginia Powerball

West Virginia Powerball — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:28:44 +0000

promoting Windows Vista or windows 7?

By: df

df — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:25:31 +0000

$9 billion?
Is this verifiable?

By: whisperer

whisperer — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:20:13 +0000

Word?
Excel?
Powerpoint?

By: bob u

bob u — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:19:23 +0000

I have been using Live as my primary search engine for the last year. As a developer it does a great job of returning relevant answers to my queries. Occasionally I run the same search through Google and get 95% of the same results usually in a slightly different order.

If Google were to disappear completely this afternoon I wouldn’t even miss it.

By: Ike Turner

Ike Turner — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:02:50 +0000

@Alex
Dude just shut the fuck up a go to sleep please!

By: Olivier

Olivier — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:26:09 +0000

World is small. Ann Winblad is a former girlfriend of Bill Gates…

By: Review of the Internet news of the Day - Fast.Fwd.Innov@tion

Review of the Internet news of the Day - Fast.Fwd.Innov@tion — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:00:43 +0000

[...] Steve Ballmer Visits Silicon Valley, Talks About Microsoft’s Future In Software, Search And Mobile: Hummer Winblad’s Ann Winblad interviewed Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer this evening at a Churchill Club event in Silicon Valley. The live video stream is embedded below. The early part of the discussion focused on Microsoft’s views on web based software offerings from companies like Google and Salesforce. Ballmer says apps don’t really belong solely on the client or in the cloud, but rather a “software plus services” approach that distributes processing and storage across the cloud and the local machine or device… Read more on TechCrunch. [...]

By: Andy Gongea

Andy Gongea — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:37:38 +0000

I really like Live, but I feel like something is missing there.

By: JoeG

JoeG — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:13:47 +0000

Ballmer understands that MSFT has to redefine search in order for them to make headway. Since Google claims search is “90% solved”, lol, there may be an opportunity. As his scorecard moves to handsets, it will be interesting to see how things change, since Google has the brand, but is starting from zero.
Also dismissed Apple as a perpetual niche mobile player by dint of their closed sw/hw system, following in their familiar footsteps. (perhaps a happy niche…)

By: Alex Schleber

Alex Schleber — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:47:09 +0000

Sheer passion and exuberance is an understatement… have you seen the sweating Ballmer “Developers, developers, developers…” chant video?!? It’s quite the sight to behold.

Google it.

By: Alex Schleber

Alex Schleber — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:43:00 +0000

Yeah. MSFT the innovator… hahahahaha…

Windows Live Wave 3… hahahahaha…

MSFT branding insanity continues, and they still want to undermine the Internet in any way they can. If only they had invested all of the money they spent on trying to hold it back on innovating IN TUNE with the Web, they could be the most dominant and likely respected Web company today by far (due to being the most lavishly funded).

But no, instead they had to keep trying to defend an ancient OS code base for PCs that’s become almost unserviceable. It’s truly sad when one thinks about it.

By: Kaiyzen

Kaiyzen — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:13:05 +0000

Just a quick semi-correction on the Wave 3 reference…,

Wave 3 isn’t their approach to software and services they have been doing it is the 3rd major iteration through their beta and user testing cycle(s).

As they have moved through the various cycles they are updating existing products/services with new features and fixes, as well as introducing entirely new products/services.

By: s

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:12:57 +0000

i have switched over to Live Search and I dont feel the difference as well.