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Video: Ballmer on growth, business models and Google

We have three video clips from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's interview at the Churchill Club event yesterday. The moderator was Roger McNamee, co-founder of Elevation Partners.
Written by Dan Farber, Inactive

We have three video clips from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's interview at the Churchill Club event yesterday. The moderator was Roger McNamee, co-founder of Elevation Partners.
Ballmer claims growth and innovation
Ballmer embraces change and says Microsoft is growing in terms of percentage growth, absolute growth and growth relative to the competition.

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Ballmer identifies new business models
He outlines three new business models that he says will provide the framework as his company takes on its wide range of competitors, and explains how his company is preparing to take on Google in the ad space.
Ballmer looks out at the next 5 years
Ballmer tells McNamee that here will be no overnight transformations but that his company is persistent and will offer healthy competition in the ad space.  When asked about whether there is anything about Google that makes him think they're nuts, he says "yes," but declined to elaborate.

You can listen to the complete podcast here... 

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