>>Robert did call him Steve and not Mr. Ballmer, so maybe there's some hope.
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>Shoot, I call him "Steve" on those rare occasions I run into him. MSFT isn't really big on formalities, it seems, so don't read to much into it. :-)

Yeah, I know that, hence BillG.

Also, I hope he doesn't hurt you too much when you run into him. He's a pretty big guy.