Steve Ballmer can never be called shy. Within moments of opening his appearance oat the Web 2.0 Summit this week, he started his offensive against Google with jabs about their Apps cloud collaboration software and Android, then went after the Apple iPhone. As a speaker at the event 2 years ago, Ballmer lauded the recently-released Bing. Yesterday, he noted that Bing’s reach had more than doubled since then, going from 7% market share to 15% itself and twice that when you factor in Bing-powered search such as Yahoo!. “Together with Yahoo, we’re between 25 percent and 30 percent market share,” Ballmer…

I dunno much about stocks, but I know just enough to know that when someone loud and important (and loud (and most importantly, loud)) sells a crap-ton of them, something possibly suspicious is going down. Maybe. Perhaps. Everyone’s favourite CEO, Steve Ballmer (he’s totally your favourite, right? Of course he is) has spent the last few days dumping over 49 million shares of Microsoft, worth 1.3 billion dollars. I’m happy you’re ever-more obscenely rich, Steve, but… anything you wanna tell us? Windows Phone 7 launches today. You quitting while you’re ahead, or something? Reuters reports…

Steve Ballmer, the sweaty chief executive for Microsoft, may surprise us by playing a part in Apple’s keynote presentation at this year’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference. This, of course, is still all a rumor. But Trip Chowdhry, an analyst with Global Equities Research, insists that seven minutes of the June 7 keynote by Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been blocked off for rival Microsoft’s presentation on Visual Studio 2010. Chowdhry has reportedly stated that he believes Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer could give the presentation. And given his love for developers, it could be quite…