Financial Analyst Meeting

Ballmer on Windows Phone: “We Haven’t Sold Quite as Many as I Would Have Liked”

Ina Fried in News on September 14, 2011 at 3:12 pm PT

The Microsoft CEO said he is encouraged by the response from partners and developers and is convinced the company has an operating system that will provide “a very strong third ecosystem” to compete with the iPhone and Android.

Even Microsoft’s Analyst Meeting Looks Like the New Windows (Enjoy the Slideware)

Ina Fried in News on September 14, 2011 at 1:36 pm PT

The Metro look is spreading throughout the company faster than the Melissa virus on a room full of unpatched PCs.

Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting 2011: It’s a Windows World After All!

Kara Swisher in News on September 14, 2011 at 1:10 pm PT

AllThingsD‘s Ina Fried and I are being held hostage by nefarious Microsoft PR chieftain Frank Shaw in a soul-sapping ballroom in Anaheim, Calif. — within spitting distance of Disneyland’s “It’s a Small World” ride — for the software giant’s annual meeting with Wall Street peeps.

Mr. Ballmer’s Wild Ride! Microsoft Execs Will Address Wall Street Suits Today.

Kara Swisher in News on September 14, 2011 at 7:17 am PT

Hey, kids, it’s time for the Microsoft Mouse Club at the annual Financial Analysts Meeting in Anaheim today.

As Einhorn Exits Mets, Will He Refocus on Striking Out Microsoft’s Ballmer?

Kara Swisher in News on September 2, 2011 at 11:14 am PT

Now that famed hedge fund investor has dumped his bid for the Mets, will it give him more time to throw curve balls at Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer?

BoomTown Gets Ping-Ponged in Seattle by TechFlash

Kara Swisher in News on July 30, 2010 at 2:33 pm PT

On my trip to Seattle this week to attend Microsoft’s Financial Analyst Meeting, the fine folks at the most excellent tech news site TechFlash dragooned me into a ping-pong tournament they were holding. The Second Annual TechFlash Summer BBQ and Ping-Pong Tournament, held at the Showbox SoDo is really a big schmoozefest for techies in the Pacific Northwest.

Slip ‘N Slide Time: All the Presentations From Microsoft's Financial Analyst Meeting

Kara Swisher in News on July 30, 2010 at 8:47 am PT

Microsoft had its annual Financial Analyst Meeting at its Redmond, Wash. campus yesterday, where BoomTown liveblogged the morning and afternoon sessions with the software giant’s top execs. And, because it is Microsoft, there were lots and lots of slides to look at, which are all after the jump.

Microsoft Totally Going to Make Things Happen in Tablets

John Paczkowski in News on July 30, 2010 at 1:00 am PT

Microsoft–which foresaw the tablet PC, but failed to commercialize it–has a lot to prove in the market currently dominated by Apple’s iPad, and every intention of proving it. Bringing Windows-based slates to market “is job one urgency around here,” said CEO Steve Ballmer at the company’s Financial Analyst Meeting Thursday.

Liveblogging Microsoft’s Financial Analyst Meeting (Afternoon Session): Hey, Steve Ballmer is All In!

Kara Swisher in News on July 29, 2010 at 1:15 pm PT

BoomTown is in Redmond, Wash. today to attend Microsoft’s annual Financial Analyst Meeeting, where top execs from the software giant have been taking the stage to talk about All Things Microsoft. I liveblogged this morning’s sessions here, and now the afternoon confab, which opened with CEO Steve Ballmer, who seemed was confidently strutting around after delivering record results last week for the fourth quarter. But can we turn around its lackluster stock?

Liveblogging Microsoft's Financial Analyst Meeting (Morning Session): It's a Beautiful Day?

Kara Swisher in News on July 29, 2010 at 8:24 am PT

BoomTown took the corporate All Things Digital jet–aka Virgin America, seat 10A–up to Redmond, Wash., today to attend Microsoft’s annual Financial Analyst Meeting, which also includes a passel of media drones like me. I liveblogged the event all day, which was essentially a cavalcade of top execs from the software giant taking the stage and showing off their wares. Before it started, U2′s “Beautiful Day” was playing over the sound system, which it was not up here in the Pacific Northwest this morning–it was kind of cold and gloomy, a la “Twilight”–but hopefully sparkly for Microsoft execs.