I love great views," Steve Ballmer says with a grin as he takes me on a quick tour of the 40th-floor apartment he just rented in Bellevue, Wash. One set of picture windows faces the downtown Seattle skyline. Another provides a gorgeous view of Mount Rainier to the south. As Ballmer settles into a large tan sofa, I realize one outlook is missing: to the northeast. The apartment's interior walls prevent us from looking inland toward Microsoft's giant campus, where Ballmer worked for most of his adult life.
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