Ballmer says IT will beat slump
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Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, said Friday that he did not expect the economic downturn to have an impact on the technology sector's long-term development. "Certainly business is not as good as a lot of people would like right now. But in a 10-year sense, I don't think it will make any difference," Ballmer said at a business conference in Copenhagen hosted by IBC Euroforum and Danish business daily Borsen. Ballmer said the next major technological leap after the arrival of the Internet would be to integrate different systems, enabling information to travel freely between computers, phones and wrist watches.