Microsoft | Sluggish stock price overshadows Ballmer's message at Microsoft meeting | Seattle Times Newspaper

Business as usual, in Redmond

Asked if Microsoft should be split up to increase shareholder value, Ballmer said that wouldn't make sense because there's a lot of technological and business synergy across the company and that Microsoft "doesn't invest in things which are idly independent."

In response to a question about whether we now live in a post-PC world, Ballmer said: "We are in the Windows era. We were, we are, and we always will be."

Microsoft | Sluggish stock price overshadows Ballmer's message at Microsoft meeting | Seattle Times Newspaper