Ballmer to chat up Silicon Valley
InternetNews | at | by Mike
Wither Windows 7? What's Microsoft's next move against Google? Is Yahoo still in play? These and other questions are likely to be raised to the CEO of world's biggest software company tonight at an event in Silicon Valley hosted by the Churchill Club.
Steve Ballmer will face a relatively friendly inquisitor, long-time tech investor and Bill Gates confidante Ann Winblad. Winblad is co-founder and managing director of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.
But Winblad is a sharp, opinionated mind who has seen many a hot technology trend come and go, and is likely to push Ballmer to explain the critical reception of Vista and the failed effort to acquire Yahoo -- among other topics.