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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: 'We love to be first'
Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 03:01 PM EST
"In an interview, Ballmer talks a lot about how, five years after Chairman Bill Gates made him CEO, he is redefining Microsoft for its next phase, making it more disciplined and decentralized," Kevin Maney reports for USA Today. "While it's clear that Microsoft is changing, old behaviors die hard. When Ballmer gets talking about how Microsoft must be first with technology innovations — which, so far in Microsoft's history, has not often happened — the exchange is more like vintage pugilistic Microsoft."
Ballmer: "You've got to be not just first in an area; you've got to be first with important innovations even in areas that you've pioneered."
USA Today reporter: "Well, you guys have proved over and over again being first is not necessarily ..."
Ballmer: "We love to be first."
Reporter: "You love to be first but ..."
Ballmer: "We love to be first."
Reporter: "You certainly weren't the first — you know, I mean, here looking at your ..."
Ballmer: "We love to be first. Well, our big success is Windows. We were first. Windows, we were first — and then everybody faded out because there was a period during which the concept was — I mean, Apple stuck around with their concept of that, but everybody else faded out, basically."
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