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Steve Ballmer should limit his worries to Microsoft and his advice to his employees. Last week the Microsoft CEO reportedly had the audacity to suggest that Apple "become more like Microsoft," and loosen the bonds between Apple hardware and software.

Is he really that clueless? Surely he's aware that it's the marriage between hardware and Mac OS X that allows Apple build the best, most intuitive computers and smartphones in the world.

According to an article on CNet News the comments came during an interview conducted by a Ziff Davis reporter at the Churchill Club, a Silicon Valley...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is not only an apish buffoon, but he also apparently lacks a backbone. It was revealed today in a letter to Yahoo shareholders written by “activist investor” Carl Icahn that Ballmer expressed fears that the current Yahoo board—hostile to a takeover by Microsoft—could put the huge bounty needed for the acquisition into question.

“If and when a transaction is consummated,” Icahn’s letter states of Ballmer’s acquisition logic, “Microsoft would be guaranteeing a great deal of capital at closing.

The Wall Street Journal reported this morning (and thousands of others since then) in a front-page story that Microsoft is seeking new channels of opportunity for acquiring the search business of Yahoo.

Redmond has reportedly been in talks with Time Warner and WSJ parent company News Corp., cooking up a deal that would see Yahoo’s constituent pieces scattered about like orphaned mice.

But such a scenario, which the Journal story characterized as cherry-picking Yahoo’s most valued asset, was not something Yahoo wanted, but was apparently what Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had wanted all...

Okay, let the finger-pointing begin. Should Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer take the heat for the proposed Microsoft-Yahoo merger falling apart?

After all, didn't he say that Microsoft wouldn't raise its $45.7 billion bid for Yahoo, then weeks later, say he'd raise the bid, from $31 per share to $33 per share?

And shouldn't Ballmer have thought this deal through? Why Yahoo? After all, the search engine battle is over and Google is king.

Why the need for Yahoo in the first place? Or what about Yahoo chief Jerry Yang - the guy who dug his heels in at $37 per share and seemingly chased away what...

There was plenty of blame to go around on the msnbc.com board discussing Microsoft’s dropping its bid to acquire Yahoo.

A lot of it was aimed at Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and his Yahoo counterpart Jerry Yang. Here’s a sampling of some:

In a letter to Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the software giant had been willing to raise its offer to $33 a share—a $2-a-share increase on its initial offer of $31 a share, or $44.6 billion, back in February.

I’ve never liked Steve Ballmer very much as president of Microsoft. I don’t know the man personally, of course, and I could never quite put my finger on my reasons for disliking him.

Until today, that is, when I read an Associated Press story that included allegations that the Microsoft CEO once said he wants to “kill Google.” If I heard about the quote—from which I’ve removed an obscenity—in Sept., 2005, when he supposedly said it, I must have forgotten, because it came as news to me.

And it seemed to epitomize my disdain for the man who in some circles has come to be known...

Despite insisting that its proposed acquisition of Yahoo! "made sense for Microsoft, Yahoo! and the market as a whole" Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, has admitted defeat and withdrawn its proposal to purchase the Yahoo! business.

"Yahoo! has not moved toward accepting our offer. After careful consideration, we believe the economics demanded by Yahoo! do not make sense for us, and it is in the best interests of Microsoft stockholders, employees and other stakeholders to withdraw our proposal,” said Ballmer.

Here is the text of the letter that Ballmer sent to Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang on the...

After Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent a letter to Yahoo’s board Saturday declaring that there has been “no meaningful negotiation to conclude an agreement” between the two companies and suggesting that Microsoft will take its bid hostile by initiating a proxy battle to replace Yahoo’s board if a deal is not reached by April 26, Yahoo CEO and founder Jerry Yang and chairman Roy Bostock formally responded with a request for a higher price.

"We believe that the majority of your shareholders share this assessment"

Microsoft Corp. sent a letter to the Yahoo Board of Directors Saturday setting a three-week deadline for moving forward on its buyout offer.

The letter signed by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says Microsoft will take its case directly to Yahoo Shareholders and work to elect a new slate of directors, if the board doesn't respond by the deadline by April 26.

The bid to buy Yahoo was made in January and announced Feb. 1.