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September 27, 2011
Steve Ballmer Trashed by Online Commenters--Internet Reads Way Too Far Into It
In the hierarchy of written communication, anonymous Internet commenters rank a slight notch above people who carve swear words into bathroom stalls and a tad below kids who say the alphabet by burping. Try telling that to the tech blogosphere today, however, because one might think that ev ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2011
New Orleans Hornets Meet Attendance Goals, Not Leaving Anytime Soon
It's an instance in which we take no pleasure in saying "We told you so." And trust me, we usually take a great amount of pleasure from such a thing.
Blogs
January 7, 2011
Larry Ellison, Richer Man Than Steve Ballmer, Already Tried and Failed to Buy New Orleans Hornets
Steve Ballmer apparently isn't the only über-rich CEO who's been mulling over a chance to buy the beleaguered New Orleans Hornets and bring them back to his home city. Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp.'s co-founder and CEO apparently already tried and failed to buy the team.
Blogs
January 6, 2011
NBA.com Columnist Begs League to Bring Hornets to Seattle
We've been on the record numerous times saying that the New Orleans Hornets being bought by Steve Ballmer and moved to Seattle is unlikely at best. Obviously, that doesn't mean we wouldn't love to see a new NBA team in town--'cause we would. And when a columnist for NBA's official website mak ... More >>
Blogs
January 6, 2011
Tolls Approved for 520 Bridge: At $3.50 Each Way, That's $1,750 a Year for Daily Commuters
There's pretty much no way around it, 520 commuters--you'll soon be paying more to drive to work. The final votes of the Washington State Transportation Commission are in today, and they've all agreed that $3.50 each way during peak hours is going to be the damage.
Blogs
December 6, 2010
ESPN Gives Added Juice to Rumors That New Orleans Hornets Are Coming to Seattle
Previous rumors that the Sacramento Kings might be bought by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and transplanted to Seattle have been thoroughly dispensed with on this blog and elsewhere. So when new rumors surfaced that the New Orleans Hornets--who are having trouble getting fans to actually attend ... More >>
Blogs
November 16, 2010
Steve Ballmer Unloads More Microsoft Stock: Will He Fund One-Way Mars Missions?
Last week we told you about rumors (albeit, largely discredited) that the reason Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was selling off billions of dollars in company stock was so he could buy the Sacramento Kings and deliver an NBA team back to the Emerald City. Then, yesterday we wrote about how Washi ... More >>
Blogs
November 12, 2010
More Outlets Blow Holes In Sac Kings Coming To Seattle Meme
Ever since Sports Illustrated updated a story last Friday about a meeting between Sacramento Kings owner George Maloof and former SuperSonics exec Wally Walker in Seattle, everyone involved has done their best to downplay its significance. "It had nothing to do with us moving the team," Maloo ... More >>
Blogs
November 9, 2010
Steve Ballmer's Not Bringing the NBA Back to Seattle Anytime Soon
Reputable local news outlets have been ablaze with speculation that Steve Ballmer's recent big-dough Microsoft stock cash-out means he's freeing up loot to buy the NBA's Sacramento Kings and relocate them to Seattle. Granted, Ballmer was part of a group of wealthy businessmen who made an 11th ... More >>
Blogs
October 19, 2010
Steve Ballmer Donates Another $325,000 to Defeat I-1098
A new filing by the state's Public Disclosure Commission reveals that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is now Defeat 1098's biggest donor, and it's not even close. After giving "only" $100,000 in September to the campaign to prevent a high-earner's income tax, Ballmer significantly upped the ante ... More >>
Blogs
October 1, 2010
Steve Ballmer's Not the Only Microsoft Millionaire Who Doesn't Want to Pay Income Tax On His Raise
Steve Ballmer finished the last fiscal year, which ends in June at Microsoft, with $1.34 million in total compensation--a nearly 6 percent raise over last year, according to the Seattle Times. As has already been reported, he wants to hang onto as much of that cash as he can, donating $100,00 ... More >>
Blogs
September 20, 2010
Steve Ballmer and Jeff Bezos Give Big to Fight 1098
You'd think two guys who do a lot of local hiring might be in favor of an initiative that would raise billions dedicated for education, money that Washington has to spend whether it has it or not. But according to the latest campaign finance figures, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and his Amazon ... More >>
Blogs
August 19, 2010
Is Steve Ballmer Underpaid?
That seems to be what CNNMoney is implying. In a list of the Top 15 CEO Overachievers -- "overachiever" in this case defined as really rich guys who were paid the least when their companies out-performed the S&P 500 last year -- Microsoft's top guy Steve Ballmer ranks sixth. In 2009, the symp ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2010
Half of Microsoft's (Anonymous) Employees Don't Approve of Steve Ballmer
You've heard of this guy Mark Hurd, right? The Hewlett-Packard CEO forced to resign late last week because of a sexual harassment investigation? Lots of his employees apparently didn't like him very much. At least according to his record-low approval rating of 34-percent on Glassdoor.com, a s ... More >>
Blogs
July 13, 2010
Steve Ballmer Declares Microsoft is "Back In It" With Knockoffs of Apple Devices He Once Mocked
Microsoft's oft-perspiring CEO Steve Ballmer once guffawed at the iPhone and dismissed the iPad, which makes the news out of Microsoft's annual tech conference in Washington, D.C. this week all the more ironic. Ballmer says his company is going after the device market where Apple has ruled su ... More >>
Blogs
June 1, 2010
Steve Ballmer Is Driving Microsoft Off a Cliff
Say what you will about Steve Jobs' mom jeans, but he'd never be caught looking this silly on camera.Even for non-techies, it's easy to understand just how far Microsoft has fallen since Steve Ballmer was put in charge. Ballmer -- the sweatinest, spittinest CEO this side of the Mississippi - ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2010
A Lipreader Decodes the Steve Ballmer-Paul Allen Conversation at Blazers' Game
This Industry of Titan talking -- an 11-second snippet of conversation between Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Portland Trailblazers' owner Paul Allen -- occurred during Wednesday night's game against the Golden State Warriors. So what were Ballmer and Allen talking about? TechFlash first hipped ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2010
Microsoft's Tax Dodge in Cartoon Form
In honor of Microsoft's one billion dollar tax dodge, cartoonist R.R. Anderson created this wonderful illustration of CEO Steve Ballmer ransacking the capitol. Note: Anderson drew Ballmer to scale.
Blogs
January 22, 2010
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Signs Mac Laptop
It's 5 p.m. on a Friday. GO HOME. But before you do, check out Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer signing the laptop of a Trevecca Nazarene University student in Nashville, Tennessee. (Hey, he's a good sport!) And for a close-up of the signature, click that little line thingy below. Have a great weekend ... More >>
Blogs
January 15, 2010
Unlike Google, Steve Ballmer Wants to "Help" China
Software pirates, Falun Gong supporters, free Tibet activists--China's prisons have room for you all!PR professionals, take note. Here is how you do not want to position your company against a competitor during a tricky news cycle. Google is adding a bit of luster to its halo by threatening ... More >>
Blogs
January 14, 2010
Illegal Loogies: Seattle Considers Banning Spitting in Parks
If the Parks Department gets its way, mouth juice like this will no longer be tolerated within city limits.Singapore gets a lot of gruff for having laws on the books banning spitting in public. But if Seattle Park Board members pass a code of conduct tonight, Jet City just might replace the A ... More >>
Blogs
January 6, 2010
How Steve Ballmer Can Save Windows Mobile at CES Tonight
Can Ballmer save his ailing mobile platform?Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer delivers a keynote address at 6:30 p.m. tonight at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. A lot is on the line. Especially for Windows Mobile, which is one step away from the glue factory. Earlier this ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2009
Real or Fake: Steve Ballmer Fires Microsoft Employee For Not Saying Bing?
UPDATE: The maker of the video responds. Details after the jump. Based on the enthusiasm he shows at high school basketball games, it's not impossible to imagine Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer acting like the crazed maniac portrayed by this ex-employee, who alleges he was fired by Ballmer for not be ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2009
Seattle Blogs: Seahawks Coach Jim Mora Lies to Save His Job
Seahawks coach Jim Mora has allegedly come down with a nasty case of the fibs.The best of what the Seattle blogosphere has to offer. - SunBreak quotes Scottish essayist Thomas Carlyle and the Bible in order to show how Seahawks coach Jim Mora is a fink for using revisionist history to avoid ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2009
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Says It, Sprays It at Son's Hoops Game
You're saying this guy gets intense at sporting events? I don't believe it.The hyperactive dad who cheers just a little too loudly at his kid's game is not a new phenomenon. What is new is taking that same dad and giving him a billion dollars, plus the reins to one of the world's biggest comp ... More >>
Blogs
November 30, 2009
An Open Letter to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: Quit Dodging Washington Taxes
A former employee tells Ballmer to pay up.Jeff Reifman is everywhere these days. The former Microsoft manager who successfully tracked down Wired editor Evan Ratliff has also found the time to start a new web site. MicrosoftTaxDodge.com is what it sounds like: A site devoted to Reifman's arg ... More >>
Blogs
October 27, 2009
Microsoft WinMo Getting Ass Kicked by Cupcake
While Redmond is crowing and Steve Ballmer is gloating about the successful launch of Windows 7, the smartphone platform Windows Mobile is being treated like a bastard stepchild--locked and starved in the basement, if you will. With the PC operating system market now fairly mature, the new gr ... More >>
Blogs
October 20, 2009
Ballmer Jumps the Shark. Or Talks About the Shark
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is a Woody Allen fan? Or a fan of sharks? We can't be sure after a long and generally flattering weekend New York Times feature on the coming launch of Windows 7. (Now only two days away! We can't contain our Win-citement!) The Ballmer quote that leaps out is this, ... More >>
Blogs
October 13, 2009
Ballmer Employs Underage Software Testers!
Everyone is holding their breath until Thurs., Oct. 22, the national rollout day for Windows 7. And while early reviews are favorable, developers and end-users alike may worry about the reliability of the platform. Vista, as we know, was a debacle. And those of us clinging to XP on obsolete o ... More >>
Blogs
September 16, 2009
Another Sign That Ballmer Will Be Around a Lot Longer: Developers Say Google Tops Bing
The man could beat a drum longer than the Energizer Bunny and with more verve than Animal, so it's not like his retirement seems imminent. In fact, Steve Ballmer once said that he won't leave Microsoft until the company is #1 in search, displacing the 900 lb gorilla from Mountain View. To tha ... More >>
Blogs
September 10, 2009
You Gonna Take That, Bezos?
He is Bezos; hear him roar.As Steve Ballmer is surely proving at the Microsoft meeting today, CEOs these days are more and more like professional wrestlers, screaming and jumping around and taunting one another in the press. Today, Turtleneck Jobs tells Jeff "The Cackler" Bezos that the Kindl ... More >>
Blogs
September 9, 2009
Get Out the Rye Bread and the Geeked-Up Tony Robbins Routine, Grandma: It's Microsoft Annual Meeting Time!
This year's big announcement: Ballmer's own line of hypercolor clothing.Safeco Field will not be hosting any playoff games tomorrow. (Or for some time.) But it will be hosting an event that is certainly of playoff intensity: Microsoft's annual meeting. It runs from 11:00 AM to 4:30 PM, and SN ... More >>
Blogs
September 1, 2009
Microsoft One-Ups TV on the Radio, Begins Work on Wireless Internet on the TV
If the venture fails, the device can be used as a prop in sci-fi 'B' movies. (Click to enlarge. Pic from Ars Technica.)Or at least wireless Internet over the TV waves. Microsoft is working on a technology called WhiteFi that will use the airwaves once set aside for TV to instead broadcast lon ... More >>
Blogs
August 24, 2009
Our Retail Customer Service Associate Can Beat Up Your Genius: Microsoft Looking for Muscle
In its neverending quixotic quest to out-compete its competitors at its competitors' games, Microsoft is opening retail stores in close proximity to those of Apple. (As noted previously, this echoes a plotline from Arrested Development. See also here.) But even if the 'Softies have trouble co ... More >>
Blogs
July 8, 2009
Google Attacks Pearl (Sammamish) Harbor!
It's on! Google has announced on its own corporate blog its intention to compete with Microsoft in the PC operating system market. That's right: It's Mountain View versus Redmond, the upstart search engine/advertising company against the world's No. 1 software company. Google has now stated its inte ... More >>
Blogs
June 25, 2009
Why Does Steve Ballmer Hate Us?
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said it before, but he reiterated the same theme at a European advertising conference covered by The Guardian. As that paper reports, Ballmer said even more emphatically that, "All content consumed will be digital, we can [only] debate if that may be in one, two, five ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2009
WSJ Reports on MSFT's Phone Strategy
Let's shoot down some rumors and relay some facts about Microsoft and smartphones. The Wall Street Journal reports here that the Redmond software titan will start playing catch-up to Apple's iPhone app store by offering similar phone-friendly gizmos for the new Windows Mobile 6.5. One such service, ... More >>
Blogs
February 8, 2009
Ballmer in Your Pocket
Speculation continues to mount about Microsoft elbowing itself further into the smartphone market. The company accidentally launched a beta-site version of MyPhone, as Cnet reports here. The service, expected to be announced later this month at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, will allow user ... More >>
Blogs
February 3, 2009
Apparently, Those Microsoft Spirit-Building Rallies Really Do Work
> Dan Woodman was laid off by Microsoft last week. But apparently the enthusiasm he got from those big-ass Safeco field rallies will be sticking around...in the form of a tattoo. Several years ago, Woodman got a tattoo of the company's "blue monster" mascot. The mascot's theme? "Change the world ... More >>
Blogs
August 21, 2008
"What is the deal with a browser called 'Safari'?"
> Dan Woodman was laid off by Microsoft last week. But apparently the enthusiasm he got from those big-ass Safeco field rallies will be sticking around...in the form of a tattoo. Several years ago, Woodman got a tattoo of the company's "blue monster" mascot. The mascot's theme? "Change the world ... More >>
Blogs
July 29, 2008
T. Boone No Longer Aiding MSFT
> Dan Woodman was laid off by Microsoft last week. But apparently the enthusiasm he got from those big-ass Safeco field rallies will be sticking around...in the form of a tattoo. Several years ago, Woodman got a tattoo of the company's "blue monster" mascot. The mascot's theme? "Change the world ... More >>
Blogs
July 9, 2008
Afternoon Edition: Let Your Fingers Do the Cleaning Up
> Dan Woodman was laid off by Microsoft last week. But apparently the enthusiasm he got from those big-ass Safeco field rallies will be sticking around...in the form of a tattoo. Several years ago, Woodman got a tattoo of the company's "blue monster" mascot. The mascot's theme? "Change the world ... More >>
Blogs
February 28, 2008
Afternoon Edition: The Cheesiest Ever
> Dan Woodman was laid off by Microsoft last week. But apparently the enthusiasm he got from those big-ass Safeco field rallies will be sticking around...in the form of a tattoo. Several years ago, Woodman got a tattoo of the company's "blue monster" mascot. The mascot's theme? "Change the world ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2006
Microsoft's Future
> Dan Woodman was laid off by Microsoft last week. But apparently the enthusiasm he got from those big-ass Safeco field rallies will be sticking around...in the form of a tattoo. Several years ago, Woodman got a tattoo of the company's "blue monster" mascot. The mascot's theme? "Change the world ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2006
Ballmer on Human Assets
> Dan Woodman was laid off by Microsoft last week. But apparently the enthusiasm he got from those big-ass Safeco field rallies will be sticking around...in the form of a tattoo. Several years ago, Woodman got a tattoo of the company's "blue monster" mascot. The mascot's theme? "Change the world ... More >>
News
September 29, 2004
Citizen Microsoft
It's time we stopped acquiescing to the behemoth in Redmond, because what's good for big business isn't necessarily good for Washington.
News
June 27, 2001
Mal-content
Seattle once boasted high-profile news and entertainment sites; now even Microsoft admits they were a mistake.
News
January 12, 2000
Rich man walking
Bill puts Microsoft in Steve's hands.
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October 13, 1999
Why wait to reincarnate? For Garth Brooks and others, Halloween lasts all year long.
Bill puts Microsoft in Steve's hands.
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