Question 1

True or false: Ballmer once sang a parody of 'My Way' at a Microsoft conference, calling it 'Developers'.

Accepted Answer

True. At a 2000 conference, he famously belted out a rewritten version of the Sinatra classic to rally developers.

Question 2

True or false: Ballmer owns the Los Angeles Clippers and once danced on the court at a game.

Accepted Answer

True. He bought the Clippers in 2014 and is known for his exuberant, often viral, courtside antics.

Question 3

True or false: Steve Ballmer graduated from Harvard with a degree in computer science.

Accepted Answer

False. He studied math and economics at Harvard, not computer science. He later met Bill Gates there.

Question 4

True or false: Ballmer once tried to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion in 2008, but the deal fell through.

Accepted Answer

True. Microsoft made a hostile bid for Yahoo, but Yahoo's board rejected it, and Ballmer withdrew.

Question 5

True or false: Steve Ballmer once threw a chair across a room in a fit of anger at Microsoft.

Accepted Answer

True. He reportedly threw a chair during a meeting about an employee leaving for Google, though he later joked about it.

Question 6

True or false: Ballmer was the original developer of the Windows 95 operating system.

Accepted Answer

False. He was a business leader, not a programmer. Windows 95 was led by developers like Brad Silverberg.

Question 7

True or false: Steve Ballmer was the first employee of Microsoft after Bill Gates.

Accepted Answer

False. He was the first business manager hired, but several programmers were hired before him, like Paul Allen.

Question 8

True or false: Steve Ballmer invented the term 'cloud computing' during his time as Microsoft CEO.

Accepted Answer

False. The term predates him, popularized by others in the early 2000s. Ballmer was slow to embrace the cloud initially.

Steve Ballmer Trivia Questions