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Microsoft CEO to Obama: Drop Tax Break Cuts or We’ll Send Jobs Overseas

“Microsoft isn’t happy about a new tax on companies foreign profits

It takes an incredibly powerful company to threaten the U.S. government in hopes of impacting a significant decision, but that’s precisely what Microsoft is doing. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made headlines when he publicly attacked President Barack Obama’s plan to cut tax breaks on U.S. companies’ foreign profits, a plan which is currently awaiting Congressional approval.

Mr. Ballmer suggests that if [...]

Microsoft unveils its most ‘ambitious’ version of Office yet – it’s tablet friendly and can be used on a touchscreen

Microsoft today unveiled the latest version of its Office software, the first ever designed specifically with tablet computers and Internet-based storage in mind.

The new Office responds to touch as well as commands delivered on a computer keyboard or mouse.

Launching the new release in San Francisco today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer described the new
version as the company’s most ‘ambitious yet’.

Microsoft hopes the addition of touch-based controls will enable Office to extend its [...]

Microsoft Will Begin Selling Massive 82-Inch Tablets Running Windows 8 (MSFT)

As part of its purchase of Perceptive Pixel today, Microsoft will start selling giant tablets running Windows 8.

This is the same 82-inch tablet Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was said to have hanging in his office. Now Microsoft will start selling those tablets, powered by Windows 8 of course, to business and education customers to use for presentations.

During a demo at Microsoft’s keynote at its Worldwide Partners Conference in Toronto this morning, we saw a demo of the massive tablet from [...]

5 ways Surface may be better than iPad

(CNN) – It’s sacrilege to some Apple fanboys. It’s also something none of Apple’s competitors have been able to claim since that “magical” day in early 2010.

But when Microsoft unveiled the Surface tablet (actually a pair of them) Monday, the software company clearly had one ultimate goal: to make a tablet that’s better than the iPad.

By most standards, Apple has crushed its tablet rivals that have tried to compete feature-for-feature. No single tablet running Google’s [...]

Did Microsoft get a new advertising team? This the best ad I’ve seen from them:

Microsoft announces Surface tablet

After days of speculation and rumors, Microsoft’s major announcement has just been unveiled at a press event in Los Angeles: a Surface tablet. We suspected the company might be working on its own tablet, and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed the device on stage at Milk Studios in Los Angeles today. Discussing Microsoft’s history with Windows, Xbox, and Kinect, Ballmer introduced a video of the company’s hardware products over the [...]

Is this the ‘iPad killer’ at last? Microsoft unveils new Surface tablet designed to work with Windows 8

Microsoft Surface will use same Windows 8 operating system as PCs
Comes with built-in stand and keyboard to replicate experience of laptop

Company refuses to reveal price of tablet or confirm exact release date

Microsoft has unveiled the tablet computer which it hopes will topple Apple’s iPad from its pedestal at the top of the market.

The ‘Microsoft Surface’ is specially designed to work with the firm’s new Windows 8 software.

The company, which is [...]

The $18BILLION man: Facebook reveals true value of Mark Zuckerberg’s wealth after float

Zuckerberg, 27, to be worth more than Microsoft CEO Ballmer, 57
Personal stake in company worth $17.6 billion (£10.8 billion)
CEO will retain 58% of voting power
IPO potentially values Facebook at $79.3 billion, by far the biggest IPO in Silicon Valley history
Investors worried over revenue slide

Earnings: With the IPO, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will place him in the top 30 richest people in the world while retaining stock valued at $17.6 billion

Mark [...]

The first billion is always the hardest to make:

by Jeremy K

Obviously you are all out of touch of the tax codes being implemented on January 1, 2011. Capital gains tax (which includes selling stocks) is going to increase from 15% to 20%. The Microsoft CEO is simply avoiding the tax hike (5% on $1.3 billion adds up to $65 million of avoided taxes.)

According to AP:

Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer [...]

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