Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had a lot of opinions for a Canadian publication on several topics, notably dismissing any inroads Google’s supposedly made on the world’s top technology company.

Speaking at a Gartner conference in Orlando, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discussed Vista, Linux, and even managed to work Google into the talk.

The Associated Press reports that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will be swinging by Brussels for a chat over breakfast (waffles?) with the European Union’s antitrust chief, Neelie Kroes, on the morning of October 5th.

The company will try to boost the fortunes of its Business Solutions division as it unveils Small Business Accounting 2006 today.

Apparently, when a Microsoft employee leaves Redmond for the Google pastures, the MS management team, or at least one in particular, does not react in a pleasant manner.

A study by real-time web analytics firm OneStat.com claims most users submit two-word queries to search engines.

Microsoft’s CEO tells financial analysts that when all is said and done online, Redmond will stand triumphant.

Robert Scoble interviews Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Channel 9. 1 down, 1 to go. Time for big Bill G to show up on 9.

Watching Robert Scoble’s video interview with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is the confirmation for me that formal, pre-planned and carefully-controlled organizational communication has now reached an evolutionary end point.

During an interview with the Associate Press in Washington on Thursday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer mused about the potential of the home computing environment and issued warnings to the heads of households.

Steve Ballmer is always good for a headline-making quote. This time it was at TechEd, where Microsoft’s CEO sounded off on Google and Apple.

Amit Malhotra ran into Steve Ballmer at a tech conference and asked him a couple of questions about RSS and blogging.

Steve Ballmer spoke at a conference recently about RSS. He threw some water on the RSS party.

Very interesting. On Google I’m the #1 “robert.” But on MSN, I’m #43. On Yahoo I’m #7.

Microsoft’s chief executive officer and European Union antitrust chief can’t find common ground on compliance issues.

This email was sent to all Microsoft employees on Friday, April 22, 2005, and approved to be posted publicly by PR.

I got permission from PR to post Steve’s email. Steve, I personally am not happy with what it appears went down in this case …

Steve Ballmer wrote us all a note this afternoon about the anti-discrimination bill. I wish he’d post this publicly.

If this were April Fool’s day, I would have been tempted to discount this story immediately.

Detroit Free Press columnist Mike Wendland reports that Steve Ballmer yesterday had some very enthusiastic things to say about blogging.

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer sent an email to its IT executive e-mail list of customers around the world yesterday fighting back against Linux.