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Ballmer says Apple sold more iPads than he would have liked – “Microsoft-Powered Tablets Are ‘Job One Urgency’”

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The iPad is a big success and currently no other tablet can even think of competing its sales figures. iOS is the best operating system available for any tablet device but still Microsoft hopes that they can compete with it using Windows 7 on a tablet. They just don’t learn do they? Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said today at a company conference where he acknowledged the early success of iPad and said that they would launch their version of a tablet soon as reported by CNET.

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Steve Ballmer and Ray Ozzie at D8 Conference: on Competitors, Tablets, Future of Computing and much more

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Steve Ballmer has been making regular appearances at D conferences. This time at D8, he was accompanied by Ray Ozzie, the cloud computing visionary at Microsoft. Unlike Steve Jobs’ appearance, the interview started of slow and boring. But later on with the mention of competitors and future of computing, Steve Ballmer started charging up. No surprises there. ;) How Microsoft feels about competing companies and products was interesting to see.

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Live Coverage of Windows 7 Launch in New York

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The day is upon us! The world’s best operating system by Microsoft, Windows 7 will be launched today on 22nd October, 2009. After the negative reception of Windows Vista, Microsoft has really come back hard at the competitors and you can imagine the linuxes and snow cats of the world jumping for cover. Windows 7 is already blowing away the competition by creating records on Amazon and other stores!

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TechCrunch’s Interesting Interview with Steve Ballmer

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steve_ballmer Michael Arrington from TechCrunch did an interview with Steve Ballmer which gives a lot of insight on Microsoft’s strategy for 3 screens ( PC, TV, Mobile ) and the cloud. He also talks about Bing, Azure, Mesh, Natal, Windows Mobile, Zune HD, Xbox 360 etc. Ballmer also gives a very good reason why there is not going to be a Microsoft manufactured phone because they want to focus on the software and services which would be beneficial for them down the road, when every phone will be a smart phone. For the complete transcript of the interview, check out TechCrunch’s post. Check out the video below:

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How Steve Ballmer sold Windows 1.0!

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That’s right. It’s Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft selling Windows 1.0 back then. He was still as enthusiastic about Microsoft as he is now. I wonder if he was reading those lines or had memorized them. He didn’t go ‘developers, developers’ either. But, great marketing!

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