Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates Don't Talk Anymore, Report Says

Though Ballmer was the best man at Gates' wedding in 1994, the enmity between the two goes back at least to 2001. At their wives' request that year, the two had a "really awkward, terrible dinner," as Ballmer describes it, that resulted in a détente. At the time, Ballmer had been CEO of Microsoft for a year, but Gates was still a strong presence at the company. "I didn't feel completely in charge until Bill left [entirely in 2008]," Ballmer says in the profile.