Ballmer: Ads and Electronics Are the Future -- Redmond Channel Partner

Pender's Blog by Lee Pender, RCPU Editor

Ballmer: Ads and Electronics Are the Future

Aside from dropping a little nastygram to some of the company's former employees, Steve Ballmer told a crowd at the D conference (don't worry -- we had to look it up, too) that online advertising and consumer electronics will be very big parts of Redmond's future.

Redmond is clearly hoping for some heroics from its $6 billion ad firm and maybe a little more life from the "uncool iPod."

Posted by Lee Pender on May 31, 2007 at 11:54 AM

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