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Tell me another one Steve, I never get tired of this story.
Does anyone outside of his paid assistants really give a rat's ass what Ballmer has to say on anything besides what brand of moisturizer he uses on that great shiny skull of his? I bet Skeletor would love to know, as the S-man has some wicked dry scalp. Come on people, Ballmer's about as relevant as someone bitching about who won the county "Hustle" dance contest on disco revival night, only with worse taste in clothes. Ozzie's not much better, (he designed NOTES and GROOVE. Exactly WHAT does Ray Ozzie know about designing software for HUMANS? That's right, NOTHING).
Here's everything Ballmer will say for the next ten years:
"Blah, blah, cloud, blah, blah, services, blah, blah windows is still the center of it all, blah, blah, Zune/Xbox/Live/<insert me-too product>, blah, blah, thin clients suck unless they talk to windows, blah, blah, Open Source is a marginal group of fanatics, blah, blah, Oh yeah, we make stuff for Macs, blah, blah, I promise, the stock price will stop sucking any day now."
It's all he's said for the last few years, why should the next decade be any different?
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Posted by John C. Welch at 22:25 | Permalink
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um... get back to your honeymoon.
--chuck
http://chuck.goolsbee.org
Posted by: chuck goolsbee | October 11, 2007 11:23 PM
I am back ya goof. You think I'd be posting if I wasn't?
Posted by: john C. Welch | October 11, 2007 11:26 PM
"We're not going to move, in my opinion, to a world where everything is done on a very thin client."
Yeah, because that worked *so* *well* for Sun. While you're at it, have you considered invading Russia in the winter?
Posted by: Robert | October 12, 2007 8:10 AM
On the plus side, well, Ballmer's not entirely wrong.
"Open source", as a "movement", really is a bunch of marginal fanatics, from everything I've seen (and I say this as someone who's run omglinuxomg for well over a decade now, and been exposed to the constant flood of "movement" spew the entire time).
And the X-Box is a good console; I don't think I'd consider it a me-too, as I would the Zune.
Posted by: Sigivald | October 12, 2007 2:16 PM
Sigvald, that completely ignores open source projects run by adults who aren't freaks, such as Apache, Mono, Samba, Nagios, and dozens of others. The problem is, Ballmer is the only legitmate voice of Microsoft, whereas the Stallmanites are marginal freakboys more interested in how "moral" you are rather than putting out good software.
The XBox was developed only because Sony and others were making a ton of money in that market. The featureset and overall design were nothing but a shot at Sony. The Wii is the last really original idea in Consoles for a decade or so, and it shows. Does anyone other than geeks in dickwaving contest really give a fuck about pixel count and polygon speed? No. They just want to play games and have fun. Neither Sony or Microsoft seem to get this. So yes, the Xbox is a me-too product. Me-too to the Playstation.
Posted by: John C. Welch | October 12, 2007 3:46 PM
