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In the Elevator With Steve Ballmer

WSJ's Joanna Stern "bumps into" former Microsoft CEO and Clippers owner Steve Ballmer in the WSJ elevator and asks about his time at Microsoft, NFL player protests and his new non-profit USAFacts. Pho... read more

Benioff and the Great Glass Elevator (with apologies to Roald Dahl)

So riding a glass elevator attached to the outside of the City of London ... So it wouldn’t have happened under Steve Ballmer’s regime, I asked, already knowing the answer which was delivered emphatic... read more

Ballmer On Microsoft Moving Forward And Nokia

Yesterday at the Build conference Microsot CEO Steve Ballmer made a surprise visit on stage to talk more about how the company views new technologies and what this means for developers. He came out to ... read more

Microsoft: A Fat Pitch With Home Run Written All Over It

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) recently announced that its CEO, Steve Ballmer, would be retiring within the next ... Stocks tend to take the stairs up and the elevator down. With the recent geopolitical tens... read more

Microsoft CEO Ballmer talks infected feet, profuse sweating, and Windows Vista

Flunky: The reaction seemed about 50-50. Ballmer: At best. “That was elevator chitchat overheard by a Business 2.0 reporter and relayed on a blog by the magazine’s Owen Thomas. Microsoft CEO Steve Bal... read more

Steve Ballmer: From screaming Microsoft exec to LA Clippers owner?

But unlike owner Donald Sterling, whose racist remarks hurled him into a vortex of public criticism, Steve Ballmer flew under the radar in recent months before he laid down a record $2 billion offer f... read more

The sad last chapter of Sterling's life

A version of this story appears in the July 7, 2014 issue of ESPN The Magazine. The life Donald Sterling ... Shelly pushed to sell the team to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for $2 billion and ind... read more

Microsoft revamps its Windows Mobile operating system

To make his pitch for the new more user-friendly Windows Mobile, Microsoft’s Scott Rockfeld talks about the time his smart phone dropped four stories down an elevator shaft ... Microsoft CEO Steve Bal... read more

The Goodell-Must-Go Bag

That’s why Steve Ballmer paid $2 billion for the Clips ... Just last month, Dave Jacoby and I were riding an elevator at Encore Las Vegas, glanced up to the bubble camera over our heads and had the re... read more

9 Viral things that owned the Internet in 2014

Hundreds of meme s came pouring out after the footage was released of the two s battle in the elevator ... billion to Steve Ballmer. SEE ALSO: NPR Alt.Latino lists its favorite Latin Music of 2014The ... read more

Microsoft puts us in the picture with XP

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer was in town today to launch the software giant ... Each was given just one minute to stand up and give the elevator pitch on why XP was so great and what it wou... read more

Does Donald Sterling Have Alzheimers?

That would explain…a lot. The Donald Sterling saga has all but come to a close, with Steve Ballmer, the current CEO of Microsoft, set to purchase the team for $2 Billion dollars–there’s a running joke ... read more