Comments on: Steve Ballmer dishes out the charm in Silicon Valley, hints at Red Dog, pledges to spend billions on search business

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By: Top501 IT: Microsoft To Open Search R&D Center In Norway

Top501 IT: Microsoft To Open Search R&D Center In Norway — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:27:50 +0000

[...] “Financial issues are going to affect both business spending and consumer spending, and particularly spending by the financial services industry,” Ballmer said during a news conference in Oslo, Norway, adding, “Whatever happens economically will certainly effect itself on Microsoft.” An admission that the economic slowdown could hurt Microsoft hardly counts as a revelation, but it’s significant that Ballmer is voicing those concerns in public. How significant? At least one trader blamed Ballmer’s remarks for the 3 percent drop in German software maker SAP’s stock, according to Reuters. Ballmer’s new take on the economy is also interesting since it come less than a week after a Churchill Club discussion in which he emphasized the “buoyancy” of the market, and how “peop… [...]

By: Sounds like Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s optimism is fading - Start-Up News | Internet Startups

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:05:37 +0000

[...] Ballmer’s new take on the economy is also interesting since it come less than a week after a Churchill Club discussion in which he emphasized the “buoyancy” of the market, and how….” [...]

By: Crisis? Pshaw. Be Bold with Research Investments « Shepherd’s Pi

Crisis? Pshaw. Be Bold with Research Investments « Shepherd’s Pi — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:29:17 +0000

[...] spending $9 billion a year, or 14 percent of revenues, on internal research and development. (See the Venture Beat story here.) Microsoft “will use the slump as a chance to invest more in our future than the other [...]

By: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s optimism may be fading » VentureBeat

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s optimism may be fading » VentureBeat — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:12:52 +0000

[...] new take on the economy is also interesting since it come less than a week after a Churchill Club discussion in which he emphasized the “buoyancy” of the market, and how….” Portfolio’s Kevin Maney may be overstating things when he says Ballmer [...]

By: Neil Hutson - Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 for developers : Steve Ballmer Live At The Churchill Club

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:44:18 +0000

[...] There has been some interesting commentary going around on TechMeme from a meeting that Steve Ballmer had at the Churchill Club where he talked about Search, but also acknowledged something called Red Dog. [...]

By: Silicon Valley rings loud with Ballmer: ‘Microsoft will invest in Search | Startup Meme

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:14:57 +0000

[...] meeting lay upon the present development and he was quite firm at stating that Microsoft with its Windows Mobile has a much broader spectrum wen it comes to reaching a variety of handset and the iPhone has a big drawback at [...]

By: Steve Ballmer dishes out the charm in Silicon Valley, hints at Red Dog, pledges to spend billions on search business

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:18:47 +0000

[...] Random Feed wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptYou can always count on Steve Ballmer for a good chuckle. I always shake my head at how this guy became the chief executive of Microsoft when he really should have been a hoarse-voiced football coach. The ever-charming Ballmer was on stage tonight at a Churchill Club event in Silicon Valley. Ann Winblad, venture capitalist at Hummer Winblad Partners, interviewed him for an hour on a wide range of subjects. Ballmer showed a few cards, expressed some opinions, and then cracked jokes when he coul [...]