{"id":61743,"date":"2013-10-29T16:16:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T20:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2022-10-16T16:07:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T20:07:40","slug":"farewell-steve-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/farewell-steve-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Steve Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geeky-gadgets.com\/steve-ballmers-final-good-bye-microsoft-24-08-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-107744\" title=\"Farewell Steve Tour\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/ballmer_steve-2.jpg?resize=70%2C84&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Farewell Steve Tour Microsoft\" width=\"70\" height=\"84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/ballmer_steve-2.jpg?resize=125%2C150&amp;ssl=1 125w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/ballmer_steve-2.jpg?resize=63%2C75&amp;ssl=1 63w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/ballmer_steve-2.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 70px) 100vw, 70px\" \/><\/a>The <a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Bach Seat<\/em><\/a> <a title=\"Steve Ballmer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/steve-ballmer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"forbes noopener noreferrer\">Steve Ballmer<\/a> farewell tour continues as <strong>rumors swirl<\/strong> about\u00a0<a title=\"Ford\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ford.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ford<\/a> (<a title=\"NYSE : F\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nyse.com\/quote\/XNYS:F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">F<\/a>) CEO <a title=\"Alan Mulally\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170115024251\/http:\/\/topics.bloomberg.com\/alan-mulally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Alan Mulally<\/strong><\/a> <a title=\"Why Ford CEO Alan Mulally Is A Good Choice To Run Microsoft (Despite His Lack Of High-Tech Chops)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/alan-mulally-as-microsoft-ceo-2013-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">taking over<\/a> at Microsoft. Or will <a title=\"Bill Gates\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatesnotes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill Gates<\/a> <a title=\"Report: Bill Gates Might 'Return To His Old Post' At Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/news\/mobility\/240158765\/report-bill-gates-might-return-to-his-old-post-at-microsoft.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">returning<\/a> ala <a title=\" Steve Jobs: The Return, 1997-2011\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/the-return-19972011-10062011.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steve Jobs<\/a> to save Redmond. Whatever the grand poobah&#8217;s at MSFT are thinking. <strong>They will probably never find another CEO like Steve.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here is newly minted CEO Ballmer opening up the company\u2019s 25th Anniversary in September 2000, doing what he calls a \u201cmonkey dance\u201d and shouting \u201cgive it up for me!\u201d When he finally calms down, barely able to speak between gasps of air, he manages to shout four words: \u201c<strong>I .. Love &#8230; This &#8230; Company!<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/I14b-C67EXY?start=12\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft Corporation (MSFT): Will Bill Gates Return As CEO? (valuewalk.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on <a class=\"broken_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rb48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ralph.bach.14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rbach48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly minted Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer opens up a 2000 meeting with a monkey dance and shouting give it up for me! and I Love This Company!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3044,420,1950,101,1080,1035,493,82,421,1951,556,254],"class_list":["post-61743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-3044","tag-aapl","tag-alan-mulally","tag-apple","tag-bill-gates","tag-f","tag-ford-motor-company","tag-microsoft","tag-msft","tag-retirement","tag-steve-ballmer","tag-steve-jobs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61743"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126094,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61743\/revisions\/126094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}