A month after stepping down as Microsoft’s chief executive, Steven A. Ballmer hasn’t lost any of his energy.
In front of a packed crowd at the University of Oxford, Mr. Ballmer hooted, hollered and jumped out of his seat in a question-and-answer session that was his first public appearance since handing the top job at Microsoft to Satya Nadella.
“If you want to start something, be all in,” Mr. Ballmer bellowed at the mixture of M.B.A. students, college professors and others on Tuesday afternoon. “You have to be hard core as anything if you want to be successful.”
Despite the theatrics, the former Microsoft chief offered a candid take on the company’s recent missteps, as the technology industry has shifted from software run on PCs to a focus on mobile devices and cloud computing.
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