Interview: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke to thousands of ISVs, solution providers and other partners Tuesday at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto. He then sat down with CRN Editor Heather Clancy and Industry Editor Barbara Darrow to talk about the company's challenges and opportunities going forward.
Q: We'd like to start with some market segmentation you talked about and ask you to relate it to licensing policies, how you might have to change licensing to better serve different segments if you will. Why are you smiling?
Ballmer: [Laughs] I'm a reformed man. I don't change licensing policies. I avoid licensing policy changes like the plague at this stage.