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Ballmer says Apple and Microsoft are both two-trick ponies so far

05
May
2014

It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Steve Ballmer, the boisterous ex-CEO of Microsoft, but highlights from his first public speech since stepping down from his long-held position have finally made their way online. Bloomberg has shared a video of the speech, in which Ballmer discusses his 34 years at Microsoft, Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp, the openness of Windows and the survivability of the modern technology company. Ballmer began his speech by pondering what he should talk about now that he was no longer a Microsoft employee, but “wound up picking some themes that are about the same as [he] would have talked about while [he] was at Microsoft.” After running through Microsoft’s growth beside the behemoth that was IBM and the explosion of Windows,

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