Steve Ballmer remains Microsoft’s largest individual shareholder, eight years after stepping down as CEO. (GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong) It’s 2022, and Microsoft’s cloud business is on ...

Last summer, as Microsoft was gearing up for arguably the most important product launch in the company’s history, CEO Steve Ballmer was nowhere to be found.Microsoft had scheduled a mysterious ...

Ballmer has profoundly influenced Microsoft's development as one of the wealthiest and successful corporations in history.

Here's a look at Steve Ballmer's legacy and some of the events that marked his 13-year career as Microsoft's CEO.

How to assess the legacy of soon-to-be-retired Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer? It would be too easy to merely focus on his many mistakes over the … ...

The heated debate over Ballmer’s legacy “has focused almost entirely on the leadership of innovation,” a topic that became a universal obsession in the course of Steve Jobs’s decline.

After 13 years at the helm and facing increasing shareholder pressure to step down, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer announced Friday that he would be retiring once a successor has ...

The Ballmer Years. Steve Ballmer became a household name in January 2000 when he succeeded Bill Gates as the CEO of Microsoft.Ballmer took over at a pivotal time for the software giant, which was ...

Steve Ballmer's reign of failure is over, said Nicholas Thompson at The New Yorker. When the Microsoft CEO announced last week that he would retire within the year, "the company's stock surged ...

Aug. 23, 2013 — -- The stock market and Microsoft's lead investors might be happy about Steve Ballmer's retirement as CEO but I'm sad. Ballmer's legacy will be debated for years to come ...

As Satya Nadella puts his stamp on Microsoft, he’s coming to grips with the tug of war over strategy and the clash of personalities that marked Steve Ballmer’s final years at the helm ...

Steven Ballmer's reign at Microsoft will be remembered for some good but mainly the bad. His legacy at Microsoft will be debated for decades to come and his business decisions will be studied by ...