In a Tuesday interview with Reuters, Ballmer said it’s reasonable to assume that the ongoing financial crisis will affect Microsoft (MSFT). “Financial issues are going to affect both business spending and consumer spending, and particularly … spending by the financial services industry,” Ballmer said. “We have a lot of business with the corporate sector as well as with the consumer sector and whatever happens economically will certainly affect Microsoft. I think one has to anticipate that no company is immune to these issues.”