Ballmer Sounds Off

PreacherTom writes "Steve Ballmer shares his thoughts on the Web 2.0 phenomenon, Zune, XBox, Vista, Bill's upcoming 2008 retirement, the future of Microsoft, and other subjects. For example, regarding the GooTube deal: "Right now, there's no business model for YouTube that would justify $1.6 billion. And what about the rights holders? At the end of the day, a lot of the content that's up there is owned by somebody else. The truth is what Google is doing now is transferring the wealth out of the hands of rights holders into Google." He's blunt, if nothing else."

Comments

let's face it...

[advocate_one]

Microsoft and Vista are irrelevant... and he just can't stand it... they're jealous and they're trying to lash out at anything they can't control.

Ballmer's Like that Girl from the Exorcist...

[Greyfox]

Every time he opens his mouth, pea green crap spews out. Microsoft should invest in 3M and keep that thing duct-taped closed.

Anyway, he's only pissed off because Microsoft wants all that money and Google's proving to be a better player of the game of Monopoly. And they don't charge you $400 when you land on Park Avenue. It's kind of interesting to watch a company with the motto of "Don't be Evil" running circles around a company whose motto has to be "Be Evil" based on everything the've done in the past couple of decades. Microsoft used every dirty, underhanded trick in the book to protect their monopoly status and Google waltzes in and beats their pants off just by making cool things and pretty much ignoring their competition.