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Ballmer Babies Banned From iPods and Google

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thats-one-way-to-slow-the-competition dept.

Valah writes "In a recent Fortune interview with Steve Ballmer, the newer kinder Microsoft CEO is not only ready to take on the videogaming, search, music download and mobile markets - but he's also laying down the law in his own house. Steve says that his kids are not allowed to use Google or have an iPod."

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  1. Re:Would a different approach be better? by chrismcdirty · · Score: 5, Informative

    Pastors' kids don't become coke dealers. Those are cops' children. Pastors' children become whores.

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  2. The Children Shall Lead by blueZhift · · Score: 3, Informative

    Come on everyone, just calm down. My guess is that Steve was just joking. It is fairly safe to say that Ballmer's kids have access to a lot more disposable income than the average kid, so if they are of age (or when), you can bet that they'll have and use whatever tech toys are hip and available. Not only will they have iPods and use Google, they'll be using a bunch of stuff we can only imagine right now. And Steve will be glad that they are, if he's smart.

    I spend a lot of time keeping up with new tech as part of my job and my hobbies, but still my kids manage to find all sorts of new things I haven't heard about. So what better way to keep up with trends and the competition than one's kids? So don't let Ballmer's joking around lull anyone into a false sense of security, his kids and Gates' kids may turn out to be among Microsoft's greatest assets.

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  3. You all missed it completely by Roadkills-R-Us · · Score: 5, Informative

    He never said in the article that he forbade them to do anything!

    From what he said in the article, he's simply convinced them that MS has the better way to do things, and that's why they go the MS way. I did the same thing with my kids; I convinced them tat Linux is the better way, that every product has to be evaluated on its own merits. I also explained to them why I generally dislike MS. They will use Windows when they have to at work. They play XBox games, and if the right games come out only for XBox, or work best on XBox, my son will probably buy an XBox. But MS is never their first choice.

    He joked about brainwashing them, but I strongly suspect he's simply convinced them.