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Steve Ballmer Reveals His Secret Twitter Account
alphadogg writes "'Quietly' is not a word that would usually describe any action performed by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. But quietly is exactly how Ballmer has conducted himself on Twitter, a site he joined over a year ago unbeknownst to most of the technology world. Just a few days ago, Ballmer was speaking in Kiev, Ukraine, and according to a transcript on the Microsoft website, Ballmer responded to an audience member who asked 'when are you going to start tweeting?' Ballmer said: 'I have a Twitter account. I'm just very private about who I really am on Twitter.'"
There's nothing misleading about it. Windoze 7 is just windoze NT 6.1 - a service pack for Vista (NT6.0), which as we all know is a failed attempt to rewrite XP (NT 5.1), which is just a facelift of 2000 (NT5.0), which is a marginal improvement on NT. It's not a new product, it's an incremental change to a bad operating system released in 1993.
Office 2010 is yet another bloat addition to their same old office product that's demonstrably a worse product than when Excel and Word were introduced in 1985 and powerpoint in 1987 on the Macintosh. The current user interface on windoze is garbage, it would benefit greatly from bringing back menus. It's somewhat better on the Mac, but it really needs a serious bloat trimdown.
So no implication that they aren't introducing new products is needed - you can just go ahead and say it. They aren't introducing any relevant new products, and haven't for a very long time.