Ballmer assails Microsoft finances, Windows Phone, Universal apps

Yesterday, Dina Bass at BloombergBusiness reported on a couple of comments Steve Ballmer made in an interview after Microsoft's annual shareholder meeting. As you probably know, Ballmer is Microsoft's largest individual shareholder, with 4 percent of outstanding Microsoft stock. He's worth $25 billion and change.

Ballmer was brutal -- and correct. He took Microsoft to task for its dodgy reporting of cloud revenue, saying, "They should report the revenue, not the run rate … it's bull****." He also says that the idea of writing Universal Windows apps, which run on multiple Windows platforms, "won't work." Bass quotes Ballmer as saying Windows Phones should "run Android apps."

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