Bad boy Ballmer
Subtitle: the man who runs Microsoft
By: Fredric Alan Maxwell.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Morrow
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Ballmer, Steven Anthony; Businessmen -- United States -- Biography; Microsoft Corporation -- History; Computer software industry -- United States -- History
Genres: Biography.
Description: "In January 2000 Bill Gates gave his responsibilities and the title chief executive officer of Microsoft to his best friend, Steve Ballmer, who had been at Gates's side almost since the company's earliest days. The news sent shock waves throughout the technology and computer worlds, making many people wonder about the man who was now entrusted with Bill Gates's baby.".

"The life of Steve Ballmer is an incredible story of tremendous ambition, genius, arrogance, and charisma, an up-by-the-bootstraps saga of how the only child of a Swiss immigrant grew up in suburban Michigan and became the fourth wealthiest American while working for someone else.

Bad Boy Ballmer also reveals a man so arrogant that after the Department of Justice filed its antitrust suit against Microsoft, Ballmer stood onstage in San Jose and proclaimed "to hell with Janet Reno," a man so intense and aggressive that he once ripped his vocal cords by yelling too loudly."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.