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.

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[ebbv]

your post makes it blatantly obvious you are firstly ignorant of anything that happened in the computer industry before 1995.

in no way did MS-DOS make the PC ubiquitous. it's the other way around, jackass. DOS was just along for the ride. nobody bought a PC because DOS was so great.

in terms your PR-addled brain can understand: DOS itself was not the 'killer app.'

my point had nothing to do with MS themselves giving away free software, you bring up your same point again. which is valid, but was so obvious a five year old would have known it.

look, i'd argue with you further but it's clear you won't understand any viewpoint but your own. so very sad.
...dave