Microsoft’s Chief Executive Steve Banner announced that he will attend major MS-Israel events immediately following the launch of the Windows 8 operating system. Banner famously stated in 2008 that Microsoft was almost as much an Israeli company as it was an American company.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/microsoft-ceo-steve-ballmer-set-to-visit-israel-in-november/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JwjtMM52co&feature=player_embedded