Steve Ballmer

  • Bill Gates: Hero or fool?

    A Wall Street Journal reporter says in a new book that even though Gates screwed up Microsoft's future he still might "shoot the moon."
  • Sayings of Chairman Bill

    Gates' Microsoft defense is full of holes, but so is the government's breakup plan.
  • Microsplit

    Justice outlines its plan for two post-Microsoft companies: Office with no Windows, Windows with no Office -- and only one of them gets Gates.
  • Is it time to buy Microsoft?

    Wall Street has pummeled Bill Gates' stock price -- and the reasons are more psychological than financial.
  • Break up? Make up? Appeal?

    Microsoft watchers, company leaders and critics weigh the software giant's future in the wake of the antitrust ruling.
  • Why Bill stepped down

    He wants to run for president -- and a cornucopia of other "top 10" reasons from our e-mailbag.
  • Crash of '99?

    If our booming economy suddenly collapses, the growing disparity between rich and poor may prove to be a decisive factor in how hard we fall.
  • Why Microsoft doesn't rule the Net

    Redmond's observers keep counting on the software giant to become a Net company. What's wrong with that?
  • Web wars

    Did Bill Gates beat Netscape fair and square?
  • Office 2000 rolls out with a bash

    Microsoft weaves more of the Web into the latest update of its applications suite -- and celebrates its launch in style.

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