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Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer: The Entire D5 Interview With Walt Mossberg

While the interview Walt and I did with Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple’s Steve Jobs took up a lot of the attention, don’t miss this very interesting interview Walt also did with Gates’s main man, Steve Ballmer. The hard-charging CEO does not disappoint here and also demos the new Surface table computer, too.

By way of background, D: All Things Digital, the annual tech and media conference Walt Mossberg and I host, has been sold out with a long wait list every year we have put it on.

That has meant only a few hundred people can see the interviews and also demos we do live onstage with some of the tech and media industry’s most interesting and important players and products.

The lineups have included Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple’s Steve Jobs, as well as Eric Schmidt of Google, IAC’s Barry Diller, Meg Whitman of eBay, Cisco’s John Chambers and many others.

And we’ve demoed stuff like the Treo when it first came out, as well as digital toilets, Wi-Fi phones and much more.

We usually post the photos and videos of the interviews and demos six or more months after they take place on a separate conference site. This year, our Digital Daily’s John Paczkowski liveblogged D5 and also posted video highlights from all of the sessions immediately on our newly launched site here.

Now, we are posting videos of every session of the 2007 conference here, in full, and we have made all our photo galleries, hosted by SmugMug and mostly shot by our fabulous Asa Mathat, public too. You can also access our videos via the site’s master player here.

Every day, I am going to highlight a different interview or demo from the conference.

Here is Ballmer:

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What’s just depressing to me is how — and it’s not just for us, let me generalize it — the moment a company goes public the conversation shifts from how they’re trying to change the world and the product they’re building to how they’re making money.

— Andrew Mason, in an interview about a month before he was fired as Groupon’s CEO