Ballmer on Innovation

prostoalex writes "Robert Scoble interviewed Steve Ballmer on the topics of blogging, innovation at Microsoft, Microsoft's work with developers and other things. Video is available in WMV format." From the interview: "Did IBM out innovate us? I don't think so. I don't think they've done much interesting at all. What about Oracle? I don't think they've done much innovative at all. What about the open source guys? Ah, the business model is interesting but we haven't seen much in the way of technical innovation. People cite Google. Google has done some interesting stuff."

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take advantage and exploit that

[Anonymous Coward]

from the interview:

Q: I'm on the evangelism team here, why do we have an evangelism team?

A: Well, really helping developers understand what we got available for them to use, not just frankly in Windows, but in Office and our Server products, what they can take advantage of, exploit that. ...

Yes, and with poor software design, a lot of exploits can be written.

Microsoft Is Innovative

[Evil W1zard]

Or at least they will be soon when they are the first company to buy a Spyware company and then incorporate that Spyware directly into the OS. Plus the Spyware will be proprietary so you will need to pay them 10k to view some code to make an API for your spyware to talk to its spyware and ....

Re:Asking *MS* about innovation?

[Ingolfke]

and linux does? all linux /oss guys do is copy MS....

You're full of crap. Linux absolutely does not copy Microsoft. They copy BSD.

What about Apple?

[otisg]

Funny, he didn't mention Apple?

And next week....

[mormop]

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