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Ballmer Says Google's Growth Is 'Insane'
eldavojohn writes "Steve Ballmer spoke to the Seattle PI this week, commenting that Google's pace of employee growth is 'insane,' and the company has few successful businesses outside of Internet search and advertising. He referred to Google's non-search efforts as 'cute.' Google's current number of employees is nearly doubling each year. 'I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.' Mr. Ballmer went on complain that, in general, competition for good programmers has become an issue. Even 'hedge funds' are looking for skilled coders, making the HR fight between the two companies that much more challenging."
. . . the "monkeyboy" tag?
Steve, your showing off your true traits and motivations again.
If you really felt this way, you'd sit back and wait for Google to implode, and then hire all the best ex-google-ites for well under what they're being paid now.
But you're making such a fuss about it...whining really.
Steve here's a hint for you, it's called competition. Look it up some time.
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google's growth says Ballmer is insane?
Novell agrees that google's growth is insane.
Copyright infringement is "piracy" in the same way DRM is "consumer rape"
Beer GOOD!
This is coming from the guy who ran around a stage screaming and flapping his arms about.
Google to MS: All your coders are belong to us!!
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Well, if anybody knows "insane", it's Ballmer.
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Wait till google gets into the operating system business, then youll hear some whining.
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So they have to sell one copy of Windows Vista to compensate. Big deal...
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This is what happens when you get overeager to slam MS. I mean $289 million dollars, not $289 dollars. I previewed for formatting but not for stupidity.
Does anyone actually care what Steve says?
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Or Steve is trying his own hand at inducing a Reality Distortion Field.
I don't know, I use the maps on local.live.com much more frequently than maps.google.com. They are also way better than google earth.
I like gmail, but it's bee 3 years since I started using it and its still "beta". I'm a bit concerned google isn't very committed to their products.
And let's face it - this isn't 1998. The google search model sucks these days, and only worked great for the first few years because no one was exploiting their pagerank methodology. I get the same crap on Microsoft's search engine I do on Google. It doesn't matter which one I use, and for the 90% of people who juse use IE's defaults, it doesn't matter to them either.
Google has been riding on their successes from nearly a decade ago. I think google is in a much more difficult place than you imagine. If anything, their hiring fanatacism is a desperate attempt to find a diamond in the pile of coal. They are hoping that of the hundreds of turkeys they hire, one will think of something big, and they will be saved.
I'd say if google doesn't come up with something real fast, like in the next 3-5 years - they will be finished.
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Face it, the only two products that Microsoft really has are MS Windows and MS Office; all other Microsoft efforts are merely "cute".
I suppose the difference to Google is that Windows and Office are under siege and rapidly becoming obsolete.
Another theory states that he is angry to be the only person on earth not having received a gmail invite...
The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.
When was the last time Microsoft's stock was over $100, let alone $400?
There may well be a more useless measure than direct comparison of share prices, but I'm not sure what it is.
Maybe something like the number of employees between 1.8 and 1.85 meters tall? That might compete.
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Taking money from your cash cow and throwing it at activities for their strategic importance rather than their immediate financial value is just insa... Ummm. Hold on.
Never mind.
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P.S. I've got 2001 on the phone - something about you borrowing their accounting methods...
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
And somewhere, off in the distance, a chair gives it's life as sballmer@microsoft.com receives 492 simultaneous Gmail invites.
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Sigh... If only. Modding would be so much more fun.
Having said that, I would like a copy of Windows Vista, (any flavor), and a suitable PC to install it on. Preferably one that I can also run my livecd linux on, just for comparison purposes, you understand.
There, that was easy.
Now for the good part, that Mr. Ballmer will surely appreciate:
Every operating system has it's bad days, I have odd things happen to mine once in a while, probably related to some of the strange web sites Mozilla Firefox and I surf.
Surely Windows Vista will sit there, stable as a rock, and let me run Firefox just as if I am using my livecd linux. I understand that Vista will want a much more powerful PC than the dual pentium pro machine I'm using, with a hefty 256 MB of 72-pin RAM. That's why I am also requesting a new PC from Mr. Ballmer, to go with the free Windows Vista. Something with a dual core, and 2 GB of RAM will do nicely. No need to thank me for my restraint here.
Thank you very much for your patience.
Careful with that chair...
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"Tonight, I have decided to be on Ballmer's side, even though I am probably the only one here."
You're not the only one here. I'm going to stick my neck out, and be on Billy G's side as well, because I could do with a few million extra dollars right now, and I happen to know that both of them have vast amounts of the stuff. OK, so a lot of it's tied up in stocks rather than laying around in the form of cash, but I'm not fussy or greedy, and would be more than happy to accept a few tens of thousands of MS shares in lieu, if that's more convenient. So if Bill or Steve (or somebody who knows them) is reading this, I'm more than willing to say what a great pair of guys you are for a sum that neither of you would even notice wasn't there any more, yet would be an absolute fortune to a modest person like myself.
Hey, Billie and Stevie, I just _love_ you guys to death, and would be _so_ happy to be seen with you (well, maybe not you Steve), so just contact me, and I'll tell you who to make the cheque out to, OK?
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