Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer arrived in Moscow. On May 23, at the REMIX conference, he gave a speech to Russian developers about the future of computer technology and the important role that in this future belongs to the creators of software products and, in particular, web applications.

Steve Ballmer was also interviewed by SUP social media expert Anton Nosik . Nosik asked Ballmer a number of his own questions, as well as some questions from readers. The question "How to patch KDE2 to run on Free BSD?", traditionally asked to politicians at Internet conferences, was the sixth most popular question, but was not asked.

He called Microsoft's biggest achievement its focus on business users. He expects returns from the Xbox platform, Xbox Live and Internet search over the next five years. Among the most successful products, he named the Internet Explorer browser and the .Net platform, which gained great popularity.

Steve Ballmer refused to disclose the details of the discussed deal with Yahoo!, but added that Microsoft will find where to spend the money that was reserved for the failed purchase of the entire search engine.

In response to a question about whether there would be two versions of the standards due to Microsoft's non-standard decisions, Steve Ballmer said that the corporation will try to both satisfy consumers and meet the requirements of the standards.

He noted that if he were given the task of creating a startup, it would be something useful to small businesses. Ballmer emphasized that there are huge opportunities in this area.

The REMIX conference presents reports from the MIX conference held in Las Vegas. The architect of Internet Explorer 8 Alexey Mogilevsky spoke at it, the PowerShell command line, and a report on the use of PHP on Microsoft servers were presented.

The head of Microsoft visited Moscow