All Things Digital

Skip to main content.

SEARCH
BoomTown

BoomTown

The BoomTown FeedFollow Kara on Twitter

Friday, April 3, 2009

Microsoft’s Stephen Elop Speaks!

stephenelop

In BoomTown’s ongoing series, “Microsofties on Parade,” I spent some time earlier this week with Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft’s Business division.

Reporting directly to CEO Steve Ballmer, Elop is a newbie, having gotten to Microsoft only a year ago.

Which is why he is enthusiastic in his determination to tell the world that the software giant has gotten the open religion and is becoming “the most interoperable company in the world.”

Yes, he really said that.

Read More »

2 Comments

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer’s Entire Letter to Customers About Cloud Computing

With all the information Microsoft is releasing at its launchtastic Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week, CEO Steve Ballmer sent out a honking long letter to customers who have opted into the software giant’s “Executive Email” program (who knew?).

Along with the Azure–at long last, a lovely and apt brand name from Microsoft–cloud services offering, the letter also outlines the inevitable and unavoidable path for the company, which has long struggled in getting its digital strategy right.

Read More »

4 Comments

Featured BoomTown Posts

Latest BoomTown Videos

More Videos »

View All Jobs | Post a Job Job Listings

A sponsored service from SimplyHired

BoomTown Posts by Date

BoomTown Posts by Category

BoomTown Posts by Tag

More BoomTown Tags »

About Kara

Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

Ethics Statement

Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

Read more »