Posted on Wednesday, July 11 2012 @ 13:14 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Speaking to CRN, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed that the company's Surface tablet marks a new era in which the software giant will leave "no stone unturned" in its innovation battle against Apple. Full details
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"We are trying to make absolutely clear we are not going to leave any space uncovered to Apple," said an exuberant Ballmer in a 30-minute interview after addressing some 16,000 partners at the company's annual Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto. "We are not. No space uncovered that is Apple’s.
“We have our advantages in productivity,” he said. “We have our advantages in terms of enterprise management, manageability. We have got our advantages in terms of when you plug into server infrastructure in the enterprise.
"But we are not going to let any piece of this [go uncontested to Apple]," shouted Ballmer. "Not the consumer cloud. Not hardware software innovation. We are not leaving any of that to Apple by itself. Not going to happen. Not on our watch.
