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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gets a lot of criticism, some deserved, some not. But he made at least one decision that now looks to be pure genius. Back in 2006, Microsoft took a $240 million stake in Facebook. It also gave Facebook an implied value of $15 billion, which made a lot of people laugh at the time. Who's laughing now? Later this month, Microsoft will sell 6.56 million shares of Facebook as part of the company's IPO.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer just gave a shout out to the Zune business in a speech to financial analysts. He did it in the context of talking about Microsoft's seven core businesses -- the Zune definitely isn't one of those. But as ... Read Post

Here's what one plugged-in source tells us about Steven Sinofsky's exit at Microsoft. Sinofsky felt that he deserved to be Microsoft's next CEO, and wanted to be designated as Steve Ballmer's successor after Windows 8 shipped, accor... Read Post

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says the very first person he showed Microsoft's Surface PC to outside of Microsoft was Michael Dell. Ballmer says that Dell's reaction was "very thoughtful." We'll bet it was. Microsoft had finally done ... Read Post