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Does Ballmer Need To Go?

Pickens notes a TechCrunch analysis wondering - after Windows Vista and the failed Yahoo bid - whether Steve Ballmer's days at Microsoft are numbered.

Ballmer spearheading KeyArena bid, but Legislature balking

Should Washington state give $75 million to aide billionaires basketball habits? Why can't they pay for the whole thing?

2007 foot in mouth awards

Time for the 2007 Foot-in-mouth awards where CEOs say stupid things. And the best is Steve Ballmer, the mouth from Microsoft, predicting that the iPhone will go nowhere.

Ballmer says Google's hiring pace is 'insane'

"They're going to double in a year. That's insane, in my opinion," Ballmer said Thursday during an address to students at Stanford University, near Palo Alto, Calif.

Ballmer: Future Windows to arrive faster

This is like hilarious. We haven't shipped the latest version yet but already we're promising to deliver the next one faster. Lies, lies, lies! Ship this one first Steve! Six years and counting...

Options Market Activity Fuels Microsoft - Yahoo Acquisition Rumors

Within days (of Google's deal with AOL), speculation was rampant that Microsoft, determined to keep itself in the game, had offered to buy Yahoo Inc. for $80 billion. If rumors were to be believed, the Microsoft bid a premium of more than 30% over the Web giant's current market value was rejected by Yahoo as too low. Now, Reuters reports that the options market for Yahoo shares is heating up as well: On Tuesday, a combined total of 103,673 Yahoo options traded in the U.S. options market -- dominated by more than 81,000 calls, more than its normal volume of 35,449 contracts, according to market research firm Track Data.

An interview with Gates and Ballmer, who look back and ahead