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Re: [News] [Rival] Stan Beer, of ITWire, rips Ballmer a new one

____/ [H]omer on Friday 19 October 2007 06:26 : \____

> [Absolute classic, thus quoted in full]
> 
> Ballmer sweating over Google (eugh!):
> 
> .----
> | As usual, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took his best shot at making
> | observers wince with embarrassment during his keynote address at
> | the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco yesterday. Being an event
> | focussing on the Internet of course, the target of his
> | characteristic buffoonery was naturally Web kingpin Google.
> |
> | The problem for Mr Ballmer is that underneath all of his seeming
> | light hearted banter, it is obvious to all who bother to watch that
> | there is a seething cauldron of pent up anger and frustration. It's
> | not hard to imagine that third party tales of him throwing chairs
> | around rooms while screaming at the top of his lungs in a fit of
> | rage as being dead on the mark.
> |
> | If to Ballmer, open source is a slow burning cancer, then Google is
> | a massive potentially terminal heart attack for which there is no
> | cure but phony positive thinking.
> |
> | Microsoft is getting slaughtered in the search space and Ballmer
> | knows it. Yet his only response (read excuse) is that Microsoft at
> | present a light weight punching above its weight until it builds
> | its size and strength to the point where it will eventually dunk
> | over Google.
> |
> | Well if Google is the search heavyweight (12 year old) and
> | Microsoft is the lightweight (3 year old), what exactly has the
> | world's largest software company been doing for the past 13 years
> | since the Web was invented? Living in denial.
> |
> | For instance, Ballmer essentially dismissed Google's online
> | delivery model of office productivity applications as being too
> | lightweight to compete with the desktop bound Microsoft Office.
> | That may be true enough for now but it sounds terribly like a
> | company that has no answers and therefore prefers to live in denial.
> |
> | If Microsoft really wants to be a global player in Internet search,
> | it would have to observe the difference in its culture to that of
> | Google. While Microsoft pretends to compete with a small division
> | of a few hundred developers centralised in Redmond, Google has
> | Googleplexes employing thousands of the most talented Internet
> | software developers all over the world.
> |
> | Microsoft, which successfully crushed Web pioneer Netscape out of
> | existence in the mid-1990s, has been fiddling with the Internet for
> | nearly all of that time and simply treading water showing that it
> | really doesn't understand the medium. Meanwhile, Google,
> | essentially a 21st Century company, grabbed the bull by the horns
> | and showed Microsoft how to make money out of the Internet. If
> | Ballmer's antics yesterday are any indication, Microsoft, despite
> | the size of Ballmer's wallet, still doesn't understand.
> `----
> 
>
http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14931&Itemid=1023
 
Microsoft has apparently begun spamming the Web now (live.com), because of
Google. When Microsoft loses, it resorts to crime. Just watch SCO.

-- 
                ~~ Best of wishes

"Fat operating systems spend most of their energy supporting their own fat."
        --Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab, rediff.com, Apr 2006

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