I see they trust him with that chair. Maybe it’s bolted down.

Heh, LOL :p
Good point

But this is Ballmer we talk about here – I don’t even know if he is human or not!

They sure can, but did you think about the fact that it might be to look more humane?
Not the high-placed-evil-powerfull overlord of the cubicle dwarfs?
I’d rather like my own office, one nice big open floor with desks as large as my bed :)

Yeah, but it’s Microsoft. It’s the company that has so much money lying around that they were able to buy US DOJ and didn’t really even care when EU threatened to fine them millions of dollars per day.

They sure can afford better offices for their higher ranking directors, no?

I think thats probably one of the better working environments in that building, i mean it is a corner office, after all most people probably work in cubes.