At Microsoft, it's back to business after EU ruling
SeattlePI | at | by Mike
Microsoft often takes heat for pushing too aggressively into new markets, as shown by a major antitrust ruling this week. But in at least one area -- Internet searching -- Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer says the company didn't initially push hard enough.
"It's probably the thing that I feel worst about over the last several years -- us not making the R & D investment ourselves up front, but rather outsourcing," Ballmer said yesterday. "It's funny, people sometimes say Microsoft wants to do it all. This is a case where we actually didn't do it all. Shoot, I wish we had done it all."