Steve Ballmer took to the stage during the CES keynote and amongst some other items, he did take some time to talk Windows Phone 7. And it seems there is a little bit of good news and bad news for those waiting with Verizon and/or Sprint. First, the good, the Windows Phone 7 devices will more »

Just in case you missed out on the Windows Phone 7 related news that came yesterday, or if you enjoyed the day so much you wanted to try and relive part of it — Microsoft has posted the video of the keynote. You can watch above or click the link below to watch directly from more »

Another week down, another round of suspicious narcotic usage in the tech world. This week saw everything from seemingly bad choices to moves that will generation zero chances of parole. Let’s get to it: iPad stealing sales from everything AT&T turns on WiFi in Times Square Google Pac-Man rocks the world Steve Ballmer isn’t doing more »

Crazy rumors as of late, one of which was calling for Steve Ballmer to speak at WWDC 2010, which for those unfamiliar — is an Apple event. In short, Microsoft took to Twitter and broke the good/bad news.. “Steve Ballmer not speaking at Apple Dev Conf. Nor appearing on Dancing with the Stars. Nor riding more »

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has a reputation of being dismissive of what his company’s competitors do. He downplayed Android in 2008 and hasn’t been impressed by Apple’s growing market share in computer sales over the past few years. But Ballmer isn’t afraid to admit that Google dominates the search engine wars because “they did it more »

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer knows what to pay attention to right now and right now he’s looking at Apple and Android. Apple is creeping up in position behind Microsoft in the desktop front, and has pulled in the number four spot in operating systems this past year behind Linux. And Ballmer sees it all. “”We’re very focused on both Apple as a competitor and Linux as a competitor.”

And then there’s Google’s Android. Google? As an OS? What piece of the pie doesn’t this company have their hands in? Remember when you first heard of them as a search engine and thought “Google?? What kind of weird name is that??” Then you used it. Uh-huh. There was no looking back. Well, it seems you see “powered by Google” stamped all over the place these days, and the new Android phones are the ones that people are clamoring for. An open-source operating system? Yeah, Ballmer is concerned. Because he sees it as a competitor not only on phones, but coming to desktops and laptops as well.

While the image could be completely faked, it would lead us to believe that Steve Ballmer is using a MacBook to run his presentations. What’s your call? The MacBook could have simply been Photoshopped in or possibly the MacBook is just running Windows, or maybe Ballmer has finally gone crazy and jumped ship. Image [Flickr] more »

This video of Microsoft CES Steve Ballmer shows his company’s arrogant stance in the mobile phone space. When he is asked for his impressions on the new Apple iPhone, he actually had the nerve to laugh, and pretty much said the iPhone doesn’t stand a chance against the Windows Mobile platform. Sorry to break the more »