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Zillow CEO Jeremy Wacksman left his cushy Microsoft job in 2009 to join the struggling real estate startup during the housing ...
Steve Jobs' biography doesn't pull any punches when it comes to Microsoft and is CEO Steve Ballmer. The New York Times has posted an excerpt which makes it pretty clear what Jobs thought of ...
That's where I found Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to be in a recent chat about his onetime rival, the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. "Steve was very different than I was, I mean, in terms of ...
By Preston Gralla. Is there no end to the number of insults that Steve Jobs apparently hurled the way of Microsoft and Bill Gates? In a never-before shown interview with Steve Jobs from 1995 to ...
How Steve Jobs reacted to Microsoft’s Bungie acquisition. by Todd Bishop on December 5, 2011 at 1:22 pm August 22, 2012 at 2:36 pm. Share Tweet Share Reddit Email. Sign up for GeekWire's email ...
But Jobs was still pretty down on Microsoft, especially after Steve Ballmer took over from Bill Gates as CEO in 2000. Jobs also wasn't confident in Steve Ballmer's abilities as Gates' successor. AP ...
Steve Ballmer: Most most big companies don't have the gumption or the resources to make a big bet. We made a big bet on Xbox and I'm glad we did. We made a big bet on Bing, I'm glad we did. I love ...
The now iconic design came about because of a personal grudge Steve Jobs had against a Microsoft exec. SEE ALSO: The iPhone almost looked completely different, and, well, it's not good.
Had a Microsoft executive not boasted about Redmond's plans to "rule the world" with a new Windows tablet and stylus, Steve Jobs might not have hit on the iconic design for the iPhone and iPad.
Before Halo, Bungie had made a name for itself developing the Marathon series of shooters on the Mac. So when the studio was bought by Microsoft to make games for the Xbox, Apple boss Steve Jobs ...
Jobs was onstage at the MacWorld event, decked out in a black vest and dark jeans, when he announced a new partnership with Microsoft that came along with a $150 million investment.
And then Jobs got Apple working to outdo Microsoft, developing a touchscreen device of its own that would rely on fingers, not a stylus. "First thing is, they're idiots. You don't use a stylus ...