Ballmer depicts a changed Microsoft
eWeek | at | by Mike
Projecting a warmer, gentler -- if not quite contrite -- corporate image, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer made his first public address since a federal court issued a decision in the antitrust suit that has dogged the company since 1998. In language bordering on therapeutic, Ballmer emphasized that Microsoft has learned and grown from the legal dispute, and he depicted the software leviathan's new mission as one about relationships, communication and sensitivity.
"As a company, as people, I think we've changed and grown over the past few years," Ballmer said Tuesday at a forum in Washington sponsored by the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute.