Steven Anthony Ballmer

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]
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 2007 World's Richest People ranking, Ballmer was ranked the 21st richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of $15 billion.

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.
Ballmer married Connie Snyder, who worked in Microsoft's public relations agency, and has three children. His wife is the aunt of former major league baseball player Ben Petrick.

Steve Ballmer was born March 24, 1956 and grew up near Detroit, Michigan.
In 1973, he graduated from Detroit Country Day School, a high school, and now sits on its board of directors.[3]
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.
He then worked for two years as an assistant product manager at Procter & Gamble, where he shared an office with Jeffrey R. Immelt, the future CEO of General Electric.[citation needed]
In 1980, he dropped out from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Footage featuring Ballmer's flamboyant stage appearances at Microsoft events have 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 and screaming erratically on a stage for about 45 seconds after being introduced at a Microsoft employee convention. Another video, captured at a developers' conference just days later[citation needed], featured a visibly sweat-drenched Ballmer chanting and shouting the word "developers" fourteen times in front of a gathering of Microsoft associates.

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."[7] and earlier described it as having "[…] characteristics of communism that people love so very, very much about it."

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.[9][10] Ballmer has described this as a "gross exaggeration of what actually took place."

Az ötödik számítógépes forradalom előtt áll a világ, ez az átalakulás pedig forradalmasíthatja a tudományt is - mondta Steve Ballmer, a Microsoft vezérigazgatója hétfőn Hannoverben, a világ legnagyobb információtechnológiai és telekommunikációs kiállítása, a CeBIT megnyitóján.
Steve Ballmer szerint az ötödik forradalmat egyebek mellett az erősebb számítógépek, az adattárolás növekedése, a természetes emberi kommunikációra épülő számítógépes környezet kialakulása és a kivetítő-technológia fejlődése jellemzi majd. A Microsoft vezérigazgatója úgy véli, az egyik legjelentősebb elem az új forradalomban az lesz, hogy a számítógépek megtanulják a felhasználók szokásait, azokhoz alkalmazkodnak majd. Emellett univerziálódnak a különböző eszközök, és a számos jelszó és felhasználónév helyett egyetlen digitális azonosítással mindent elérhetnek majd az emberek - tette hozzá.