Can Microsoft grow up?
eWeek | at | by Mike
Microsoft is growing up. At least that's what CEO Steve Ballmer wants current and potential customers to know. After years of serving the enterprise, Microsoft is now hoping to play a new role-as a trusted and responsible partner to the IT industry.
"Somebody asked me the other day what phase of life we were now at-old and stodgy?" the 48-year-old Ballmer told eWEEK editors in an interview here last week. "And I said no. We have come out of our adolescence and are now in our adult prime. We have come out of that jerky, adolescent, awkward phase. That's kind of how I might characterize where I feel like we are trying to be now relative to our customers."