Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, speaking at Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters today, revealed an interesting tidbit from the past: He once tried to hire Steve Ballmer. “I was the guy in charge of recruiting for a consulting firm called Bain & Co… Tweet This Post

Guess which Microsoft executive was paid the most during fiscal 2011? Hint: It wasn’t CEO Steve Ballmer. Not by a long shot. It was Kevin Turner, chief operating officer, who made the biggest bank last fiscal year, with total compensation of $9… Tweet This Post

Seattlepi.com’s Scott Sunde reports: “Forbes says Bill Gates is the richest American and that seven people from Washington made its richest list. All are billionaires. … Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos was 13th with an estimated wealth of $19… Tweet This Post

Y’know, not that I post a different picture every day. But I thought this one was fun enough to publish. Visit the Microsoft Blog index for more Microsoft news and technology news, and seattlepi… Tweet This Post

The image below has been circulating the blogosphere since Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer showed it Monday during his keynote at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles. Some people are intrigued, some are disturbed… Tweet This Post

The Houston Chronicle’s Dwight Silverman reports: “Microsoft launched its revamped Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system back in October, but so far the company has yet to say how many WP7 devices have been sold… Tweet This Post

Microsoft head honcho Steve Ballmer will return to CES in January 2012, kicking off the consumer technology tradeshow with a preshow keynote, the fourth time he’ll be taking the stage to do so. “We are pleased to welcome Microsoft back to the CES keynote stage,” said Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics [...]

Wednesday we had technical difficulties with our blogging system, so I couldn’t post this story to The Microsoft Blog. Seattlepi.com’s Gerry Spratt reports: “Seattle won’t get a new NBA franchise until it figures out its arena problem, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Wednesday… Tweet This Post

Steve Ballmer isn’t bending to increasing outside pressure that he step down as Microsoft’s chief executive, publicly addressing calls for his ouster Wednesday in Seattle. “You tell me if I lack energy or conviction or we’re not driving all the change we need to drive,” he yelled, in true Ballmer fashion, during a Seattle Rotary [...]

Facebook was valued at an astounding $70 billion earlier this week when GSV Capital bought 225,000 shares at $29.28 each. For some perspective: Boeing’s market valuation was $53.5 billion this morning… Tweet This Post

Microsoft should buy Netflix and install its chief executive, Reed Hastings, as co-CEO with Steve Ballmer. So writes Fortune contributor Kevin Kelleher. As the investment community gets braver in calling for Ballmer’s head, and as Microsoft shows it’s not shying away from big acquisitions, the radical ideas are starting to pour in… Tweet This Post

We’ve seen the havoc that patent trolls can wreak on tech companies and Microsoft clearly wants no part of it. That’s why Ballmer & Co. have joined forces with Article One Partners — a New York-based research firm that crowdsources scientific expertise to figure out whether or not patented ideas or inventions are as innovative [...]