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• Ballmer sells $1.3 billion worth of Microsoft stock

  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has sold 49.3 million Microsoft shares, worth US$1.3 billion, reducing his shareholding in the company by 12 per cent. The sale is his first for seven years.

• Has Microsoft Blown the Timing on Tablet PCs?

  When CEO Steve Ballmer gave a quick peek at an HP Slate running Windows 7 at CES in January, Microsoft seemed prepared for battle against the iPad, which, at the time, had not even been announced yet.

• Ballmer says he has bet the company on the cloud

  Seventy percent of the 40,000 people who work on software at Microsoft are in some way working in the cloud, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday at the University of Washington.

• Ballmer headlines global Windows 7 launch events

  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage in New York Thursday, playing the role of chief salesman in a day of worldwide launch events, executive speechmaking and sales promotions meant to persuade consumers and businesses to migrate to Windows 7.

• Ballmer surprised by market's reaction to Microsoft-Yahoo

  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was surprised that Wall Street reacted negatively to Yahoo's plan to hand over its Internet search and advertising reins to Microsoft, he said Thursday.

• Microsoft fights Ballmer testimony in 'Vista Capable' suit

  The only thing CEO Steve Ballmer knew about Microsoft's Windows Vista Capable marketing campaign was what he was told by subordinates, and he should not have to testify in the class-action lawsuit that accuses the firm of deceiving customers, the company said Friday.

• Head of Microsoft's online group leaves for Juniper

  Just under a week after Microsoft released financial earnings dragged down by its online services group, the head of its online operations, Kevin Johnson, plans to leave the company, and Microsoft will split up the group he ran.

• Ballmer rebuffs Google's anticompetitive charge

  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer rebuffed Google's accusations that an acquisition of Yahoo would be anticompetitive.

• Mobile is key to Microsoft strategy, Ballmer says

  Mobile phones play an important role in Microsoft's software plus services vision, CEO Steve Ballmer said onTuesday.

• McCain: Bring me Steve Ballmer

  Presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) last week promised to draft "the best and the brightest" of American CEOs to work in his administration if he was elected, and named Cisco Systems's John Chambers and Microsoft's Steve Ballmer as among those he would tap.

• Ballmer: No bribes

  Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer says the company won’t extend discounts to enterprise customers in a bid to stop them implementing Linux.

• Ballmer to visit Aussie, shuns NZ

  Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, may be winging his way to Australia later in the year but won't be making the jump across the ditch to New Zealand.