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Ballmer, Gates on Microsoft's Future
RoadFever writes: "At the Microsoft shareholders meeting, CEO Ballmer acknowledged they may have a popularity bug. "We understand, based upon the fact that our industry didn't rally to support us, that we need to change the way we interact and relate to our industry," Ballmer said.
There's a summary article in the Seattle Times and more stuff on the Microsoft investor relations page.
Will words translate to action? Well, the company might want to start by toning down the habit of taking credit for every innovation: "Really, the reason you see open source there at all is because we came in and said there should be a platform that's identical with millions and millions of machines," Gates said." The question-and-answer session near the end of the meeting has the most juicy quotes.
Gates:(paraphrased) "the only reason that open source is even around is because we forced the computer industry to standardise on a hardware platform"
UMMMMM......mr bill, IBM did that, you just went along for the ride....
whats next?
Gates: "By the way, all of you investors are here today because I created the hevans and earth"
this guy is a total loon
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...all the whiny questions about the number of female executives at the company? Good grief!
Wow. I see why this got modded "funny". XP has one of the easiest installations I've ever seen, and no distribution of Linux has ever succesfully installed on my box! hahahaha Jeez, what's with these moderators...?
That is exactly what he's saying. What astoundingly large cajones on that filthy bastard. He must have his Armani trousers specially fitted.
If OSS rides on the coat-tails of anything, it's the global collaboration that the Internet makes possible - and we all know how large a role Microsoft played in that.
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You are, politely, a fucking dumbass.
Gates occasionally gives speeches and presentations. Is he coming up with lies then ? He might be delivering lies he previously made up, but unless he can think one conversation and give another, hes not thinking up new lies during these times.
Now and then, gates will have meetings with microsoft employees. He'll sit and listen for a while, then ask questions. His questions tend to be pretty "insightful" (unlike your post, moderation or otherwise). Does he just have a list of standard insightful questions that someone else made him, so as not to distract from his busy schedule of concocting new lies (which he is never able to deliver based on my argument in the last paragraph) ?
Steve Ballmer said that he loves microsoft. Was he lying ? How long did it take him to invent that lie ?
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