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Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer awarded as a Knight of the Legion of Honor in Paris

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer awarded as a Knight of the Legion of Honor in Paris

Steve Ballmer Microsoft CEO

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Here’s our non tech related news of the day. Well, it has at least something to do with Microsoft but other that that there’s not much value to it unless you always wanted to hear Steve Ballmer speak in te french. Microsoft’s jovial CEO has been awarded as a Knight of the Legion of Honor in Paris by French President Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday one day after his MWC keynote in Barcelone. You can watch his accepstance speech in french after the break:

Ballmer talking with President Sarkozy and Jose Manuel Barroso:

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