5 posts and columns on Microsoft Bob

CES Video: Is Microsoft Chet a Live Version of Microsoft Bob?

in News on January 4, 2011 at 8:58 am PT

Maybe it’s just me, but is this video from Microsoft, featuring “Chet”–the software giant’s “creative presentation consultant” for the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week–freaky or not? It’s a Zen-style joke, of course, but what is the sound of one hand clapping?

Viral Video: Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg on "Why We Have So Few Women Leaders”

in News on December 22, 2010 at 12:28 am PT

Here is a must-see video by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg from a recent TED talk about the challenges faced by women in the workplace. Don’t miss it.

Liveblogging the Steverino (Ballmer) Show at Stanford: Soul Mates!

in News on May 6, 2009 at 4:40 pm PT

BoomTown went down to Silicon Valley’s most exclusive country club–also known as Stanford University–where Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took to the stage for a talk at Memorial Auditorium for the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar. Ballmer–who went to and then dropped out of Stanford Business School for a job at the fledgling Microsoft–was in an ebullient mood and even joked about problems with the Windows Vista operating system. Party on, Steve!
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BoomTown Decodes Microsoft's Steve Ballmer's Letter to Yahoo (So You Don't Have To)

in News on April 7, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

Could we resist? No, we could not. Thus, BoomTown’s translation of Saturday’s letter from Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer to the Yahoo (YHOO) Board of Directors, which has been resisting the software giant’s efforts to buy the troubled Internet portal for $31 a share in an unsolicited takeover. The well-written letter was surprising in its [...]