Steve Ballmer doesn’t take no for an answer.

Microsoft Corp.’s chief executive officer lost $7 billion on the Xbox video-game console before turning a profit. He poured an estimated $7.5 billion over 2 1/2 years into an Internet business that still trails Google Inc. in ad sales by a 7-to-1 margin. And he isn’t going to let a February 2007 rebuff by Yahoo Inc.’s board keep him from buying the company to catch up.

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