Lunch with Steve Balmer

Yesterday, I (along with about 500 other people) had lunch with Steve Balmer, the Microsoft CEO at the Four Seasons hotel in the centre of Sydney. The function was a Q&A session with a well known Sydney celebrity. Steve showed why he is the CEO of one of the largest companies in the world. He was engaging, interesting, even funny at times. He certainly presented significantly better in front of a business audience than he did during the previous days presentation to developers. Maybe he is happier with a business audience. I didn't come away with an improved view of Microsoft, but I did come away with an improved opinion of Steve Balmer. Experience as they say, speaks for itself and Microsoft's experience over the past 20 years showed.