How to pronounce “ballmer” in English

When Ballmer was thinking, Windows, Windows, Windows, all it required is Satya Nadella to close down the division and say, no, it's about the cloud.

Steve Ballmer.

This is the Steve Ballmer days.

But in the Ballmer era-- again, obviously a much bigger, better executive than I ever was, so not to pick on him, but that wasn't going so well.

I think Ballmer made a lot of mistakes, and he missed a lot of things.

And I asked Steve Ballmer at a conference a few months ago about his company's performance

that Microsoft lost under Steve Ballmer.

Microsoft minted money despite Steve Ballmer, despite them shoveling dirt in the moat every day.

Ballmer, right?

I mean, Steve Ballmer essentially spent 12 years setting money on fire at Microsoft as far as I can tell.

When Satya Nadella came over, he didn't go shouting like Steve Ballmer, Windows, Windows, Windows, Windows, right?

This is one of things that Satya Nadella's discovered at Microsoft, is that the Ballmer culture was so hard wired for measurable results.

But on the other hand, he left the Microsoft to the smart Ballmer.

The funnest one for today, of course, is Steve Ballmer saying in 2007, there's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.

And because he and -- and -- and Steve Ballmer and the people at Microsoft couldn't understand why people might

For years, Apple frustrated Microsoft, especially when it was run by Steve Ballmer.

But I picture like Steve Ballmer and Eric Schmidt, like pitching

There's a famous scene of, I think, it's Steve Ballmer, who lost two of his main engineers