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Steven Anthony Ballmer (born March 24, 1956) is an American businessman and has been the chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation since January 2000.^[1] is the 83rd day of the year (84th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... A car from 1956 Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Detroit redirects here. ... Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... is the 83rd day of the year (84th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... A car from 1956 Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A businessman (sometimes businesswoman, female; or businessperson, gender neutral) is a generic term for a wide range of people engaged in profit-oriented enterprises, generally the management of a company. ... Chief Executive redirects here. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... 2000 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Events: January 1- Millennium celebrations take place throughout the world. ...

Ballmer is the second person after Roberto Goizueta to become a billionaire in U.S. dollars based on stock options received as an employee of a corporation in which he was neither a founder nor a relative of a founder. In Forbes 2008 World's Richest People ranking, Ballmer was ranked the 43rd richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of $15 billion. Roberto Crispulo Goizueta (November 18, 1931, - October 18, 1997) was Chairman, Director, and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of The Coca-Cola Company from August 1980, until his death October 1997. ... A billionaire is a person who has a net worth of at least one billion units of currency, such as United States Dollars (USD), Pounds or Euros. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ... Main article: Option A stock option is a specific type of option that uses the stock itself as an underlying instrument to determine the options pay-off (and therefore its value). ... For other uses, see Corporation (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Forbes (disambiguation). ...

Family

On October 2, 2006, Ballmer was awarded honorary citizenship of Lausen, Switzerland. His father, Frederick Ballmer, who emigrated to the US at the age of 23 as "Hans Friedrich Balmer", was a citizen of the same municipality.^[2] His father worked as a manager at Ford Motor Co. is the 275th day of the year (276th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lausen is a municipality in the canton Basel-Land, Switzerland. ... â€œFordâ€ redirects here. ...

Ballmer married Connie Snyder after an abortive relationship with Debra Messing. His wife, who worked in Microsoft's public relations agency, has three children from a previous marriage. Debra Lynn Messing (born August 15, 1968) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress, known for portraying Grace Adler in Will & Grace and for appearing in a series of film roles. ...

Career

Pre-Microsoft & Life History

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In 1973, he graduated from Detroit Country Day School, a high school, and now sits on its board of directors.^[3] Detroit Country Day School (also known as DCDS, DCD, or Country Day) is a private, secular school located in Beverly Hills, Michigan, northwest of Detroit. ...

In 1977, he graduated from Harvard University ^[4]with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and economics. While in college, Ballmer managed the football team, worked on the Harvard Crimson newspaper as well as the Harvard Advocate, and lived down the hall from fellow sophomore Bill Gates. Harvard redirects here. ... Harvard redirects here. ... The Harvard Crimson, of Harvard University, is the United States oldest continuously published daily college newspaper. ... The Harvard Advocate, the premier literary magazine of Harvard College, the undergraduate component of Harvard University, has a particularly rich history, and is the oldest continuously published college literary magazine in the country. ... For other persons named Bill Gates, see Bill Gates (disambiguation). ...

He then worked for two years as an assistant product manager at Procter & Gamble, where he shared an office with Jeffrey R. Immelt, the current CEO of General Electric.^[5] Procter & Gamble Co. ... Jeffrey R. Immelt (born February 19, 1956, Cincinnati, OH) is the current chairman of the board and chief executive officer of General Electric. ... GE redirects here. ...

In 1980, he dropped out from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.^[6] Stanford Graduate School of Business, also known as Stanford Business School or Stanford GSB, is one of the top business schools in the world, and part of Stanford University. ...

Microsoft career

Ballmer joined Microsoft on June 11, 1980.^[7] He has headed several divisions within Microsoft including "Operating Systems Development", "Operations", and "Sales and Support". is the 162nd day of the year (163rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ...

In January 2000, he was officially named chief executive officer.^[1] As CEO Ballmer handled company finances, however Gates still retained control of the "technological vision".

In 2003, Ballmer sold 8.3% of his shareholdings, leaving him with a 4% stake in the company.^{[citation needed]} The same year, Ballmer replaced Microsoft's employee stock options program, which had been instrumental in making early employees millionaires.^[8] Employee stock options are stock options for the companys own stock that are often offered to upper-level employees as part of the executive compensation package, especially by American business corporations. ... Millionairess redirects here. ...

Public persona

Viral videos

Footage featuring Ballmer's flamboyant stage appearances at Microsoft events has been widely circulated on the Internet, becoming what are known as "viral videos". The most famous of these is commonly titled "Dance Monkeyboy", it features Ballmer dancing and hopping around while verbally screeching on a stage for about 45 seconds after being introduced at a Microsoft employee convention. Another video, captured at a developers' conference, featured a visibly sweat-drenched Ballmer chanting and shouting the word "developers" fourteen times in front of a gathering of Microsoft associates. The term viral video refers to video clip content which gains widespread popularity through the process of Internet sharing, typically through email or IM messages, blogs and other media sharing websites. ...

On competition

Linux

Ballmer is also known as a vocal critic of competing companies and their products. He has referred to the free Linux software system as a "[…] cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."^[9] and earlier described it as having "[…] characteristics of communism that people love so very, very much about it."^[10] This article is about operating systems that use the Linux kernel. ...

Lucovsky / Google

In 2005, Mark Lucovsky alleged in a sworn statement to a Washington state court that Ballmer became highly enraged upon hearing that Lucovsky was about to leave Microsoft for Google, picked up his chair and threw it across his office. Referring to Google CEO Eric Schmidt (who previously worked for competitors Sun and Novell), Ballmer allegedly said, "Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google," then resumed trying to persuade Lucovsky to stay at Microsoft.^[11]^[12] Ballmer has described this as a "gross exaggeration of what actually took place." Mark Lucovsky is a software developer who worked for Microsoft and who is now employed by Google. ... This article is about the corporation. ... Dr. Eric E. Schmidt is Chairman and CEO of Google Inc. ... Sun Microsystems, Inc. ... For the road bicycle racing team previously known as Novell, see Rabobank (cycling). ...

Sports

On March 6, 2008 Seattle's Mayor announced that a local ownership group involving Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made a "game changing" commitment to invest $150 million in cash towards a $300 million renovation of Key Arena and are ready to purchase the Seattle Supersonics in order to keep them in the City of Seattle. ^[13] Ballmer would join fellow Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen (owner of the Portland Trailblazers) as an NBA owner. is the 65th day of the year (66th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ... The Seattle SuperSonics (also called the Seattle Sonics) are an American professional basketball team based in Seattle, Washington. ... For other persons named Paul Allen, see Paul Allen (disambiguation). ... The Portland Trail Blazers are a National Basketball Association team based in Portland, Oregon. ...

Media Portrayals

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