Steve Ballmer, who joined Microsoft as its 24th-ever employee in 1980, has seen his wealth balloon over the past year to reach some $117 billion, per Bloomberg’s data on Tuesday.

Steve Ballmer became Microsoft’s second CEO in January 2000, succeeding Bill Gates, who hired him in 1980 as the company’s first business manager. (Microsoft Photo) ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who took over the helm of the world's largest software company from founder Bill Gates, will retire within the next 12 months. A search committee for a successor will ...

"If after you left Microsoft, you found out that Steve Ballmer traded Windows 11, the new, hot operating system, for Windows 10, the Hall of Fame but the old operating system, what would you do.

Microsoft today announced that company founder Bill Gates is resuming his former role as CEO effective immediately. The fate of his successor and now predecessor Steve Ballmer remains unclear; for ...

The owner of the LA Clippers basketball team is a longtime associate of Bill Gates. Ballmer joined Microsoft as an assistant to the president in 1980 and, 20 years later, climbed his way to the ...

Oct. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. needs to seek out more artistic thinking to compete with Apple Inc., rather than relying on the analytical style of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, said Rick ...

Tech pioneer Bill Gates relinquished his role as chief executive officer of Microsoft in 2000, and the company has been in a sort of slow-motion death spiral ever since.

Ballmer: The World is ‘Digital Everything’ Steve Ballmer jokes it was Bill Gates’ famous line of “a computer in every home” that got him to drop out of business school and join Microsoft… ...

During their interview last night at All Things D, Walt Mossberg called Steve Ballmer the “maestro of the whiteboard” and presented him with a fresh one to explain how online advertising works.