Technologizer

New Xbox 360 in 2010, Ballmer Says

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Microsoft’s motion-sensing video game controller will be integrated with a new Xbox 360 model, due to arrive in 2010, according to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Ballmer, quoted by TG Daily at an Executive’s Club of Chicago event today, said the console will have a “natural interface” with a built-in camera that can detect movement and voice. That [...]

Ballmer Takes on the “Apple Tax”

Friday, March 20, 2009

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer can’t seem to help himself when it comes to talking smack on Apple. His latest comments came at a media summit in New York held by publisher McGraw-Hill, where he claimed Apple consumers pay an extra $500 for the Apple logo. He seems to infer that the economic conditions have helped [...]

Microsoft to Squeeze Windows 7 onto Netbooks

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

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At an analyst meeting in New York City today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed that the company was working on a low-end edition of Windows 7 that’s designed to run on netbooks. The increasingly popular budget notebooks rarely run Windows Vista, in part because that OS’s hardware requirements–formulated in the pre-netbook era–simply exceed what most [...]

Video Conferencing on Your Wrist, LG Style

Monday, February 16, 2009

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I’m at the LG Mobile press conference at Mobile World Congress, where an LG exec just made the first public video call from one of the company’s watch phones (or is that phone watches?). Who’s that on the display? It’s a tad fuzzy in this image, so I understand if you guess Dick Tracy…but it’s [...]

Another Day, Another Keynote: Live Coverage of Steve Ballmer at CES

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

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I’m liveblogging as Steve Ballmer does the Consumer Electronics Show keynote. C’mon and join me….

Dueling Keynotes: Phil Schiller at Macworld Expo vs. Steve Ballmer at CES

Saturday, January 3, 2009

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(if you came here looking for our live coverage of the Macworld Expo 2009 keynote, head over here.) Next week will see two tech trade show presentations by guys who are following very tough acts: Phil Schiller’s first (and last) Macworld Expo San Francisco keynote and Steve Ballmer’s first (and probably not last) Consumer Electronics Show [...]

Schiller vs. Ballmer: The Inevitable, Unexpected Keynote Smackdown

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

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Mind if I state the obvious? Steve Jobs is the undisputed master of the tech-product keynote, and if there’s anyone who’s a very distant second place, it sure ain’t Bill Gates. Yet the only other tech keynote that’s got any history to it other than the Jobs Macworld Expo ritual has been the Bill Gates [...]

Zune Features Headed To Windows Mobile

Friday, October 3, 2008

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Okay so it might not be true Zune phone per se, but Microsoft does have designs to put Zune functionality in its Windows Mobile operating system soon. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made the comments to British IT magazine CIO when asked why the company had created the music player in the first place. “We built the [...]

Ballmer: Microsoft Not Immune to Financial Crisis

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

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These probably were not the type of questions Steve Ballmer was expecting to answer. At a stop in Oslo to talk about Microsoft’s acquisition of Norwegian-based Fast Search, reporters seemed more interested in any possible ramifications for the world’s largest software company due to the ongoing financial crisis. Ballmer warned that as the financial crisis deepens, [...]

Ballmer Ties His Retirement to Live Search Success

Sunday, September 21, 2008

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Many had assumed the Ballmer era would end when his youngest child goes off to college, roughly in about a decade or so: he even hinted to that effect himself. Despite these earlier comments, the ever outspoken executive now seems to be quite frustrated over the apparent failures of Live Search, and will stay on [...]

Exclusive: The Seinfeld/Ballmer TV Ads We Didn’t Get to See

Saturday, September 13, 2008

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I know I’ve written about this before, and I don’t mean to harp, but to me the most interesting thing about the new Windows ad campaign is not that it costars Jerry Seinfeld, but that it costars Bill Gates. It was only slightly over two months ago that Gates retired from Microsoft with a barrage [...]