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I hope Ballmer stays in Microsoft for a very long time. I don't like Microsoft and Ballmer is the perfect person to head it. Microsoft only business model is to use it's monopolistic muscle to get thing their way, once it's no longer in this position, it will shrivel up and die. Google of all tech companies is the one that is challenging Microsoft at it's core. Microsoft is scared because if it loses just a bit of it's monopoly, everything will crumble after that. Vista is the perfect example that a company can not relay on mediocrity for ever using only it's anticompetitive practice to survive. The bigger it gets the bigger it will fall.

[tallscot]

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Thursday questioned how entrepreneurial rival Google really is. <a href="/news/2007/03/16/ballmer/index.php">[more]</a>

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I hate it when CEOs are so childish. Next thing you know, Ballmer will have banners up making fun of Google during a keynote.

[imalex]

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Next thing you know, Ballmer will have banners up making fun of Google during a keynote.

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Ha ha. But he has no valid basis for his spurious comments except fear and anxiety. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Or maybe it's just that "me too" reflex kicking in.
A.

[iron_chef]

good to sell Ballmer pretending to run Google.
As if he has nothing better to do.

[nmpike]

The bottom line is Microsoft is going down..... there is no stopping it... Vista has been a flop and will continue to do so as people migrate to OS X and other OS's (hopefully more OS X though).
Microsoft's hotmail has NOTHING on Gmail.... Windows Live Search sux compared to Google Search... GAFYD is superios to Office Live.... Ballmer, you better leave too... with Gates, so at least you can say, "hey MS sunk when we left" although it's been sinking for about two years or so... it's just now the hole in the ship got bigger and you are sinking faster than ever.

[robb1068]

While you can't predict the future, I find it difficult to picture corporations abandoning MS Office for a service based app suite like Google's. The Vista migration will happen, but it'll be more of a process and not an overnight sensation like Win95.

[sqlrob]

And in an unrelated story, MS tells Apple it shouldn't do a phone because it's too hard...

[JScott]

"Utube"? Please tell me that was a typo and you didn't use leet speak on YouTube's name. Has it truly come to this?

[warlock7]

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Thursday questioned how entrepreneurial rival Google really is. <a href="/news/2007/03/16/ballmer/index.php">[more]</a>

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I hate it when CEOs are so childish. Next thing you know, Ballmer will have banners up making fun of Google during a keynote.

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What does this obvious slam against Jobs have to do with this article, Scot?

[Duncan8146]

It's "their" not "THERE"

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... while Microsoft has reinvented itself many times over.

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Why does a company reinvent itself? Because they are not working as they are. If what you are doing works, you leave it alone or expand on it.

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then created software to run servers

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Bravo to them [for] trying to start a second business. But its a related business, its not a completely second [one].

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How is 'creating software for servers' not a related business?

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moved into the Internet space with its Internet Explorer Web browser

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As if Microsoft invented browsers? Ha ha ha.

[VidPro]

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer criticized rival Google, saying it is devoted primarily to ad-supported search while Microsoft has reinvented itself many times over

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And failed miserably most of the time, kept afloat only by proven criminal and unethical practices.
Well, better than afloat, but it certainly wasn't because of innovation other than innovative but illegal and unethical business methods. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

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Theyre trying to make it into a second one, thats right and well see how they do, he said. Bravo to them [for] trying to start a second business. But its a related business, its not a completely second [one].

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Isn't that a bit of a flip-flop from the first stance? In any case, what has Microsoft done that is not computer related and succeeded?
No, I don't think the Zune experiment is a success, no matter how many Microsoft and its employees buy.
It seems there are not enough "anything but Apple" MS fans around, and those that are, don't find MS the best second choice. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[VidPro]

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Whenever Ballmer speaks of his competition he comes off as a sore loser.

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It's called "The Big Lie". The theory is that if you repeat a lie often enough, people will start to believe it. This tactic appears to have worked for MS before, and "if it ain't broke, why fix it"?
This has been seen in a number of situations brought out during several of their legal problems, including announcing vaporware for no other reason than it stop another company's sales as customers wait for MS's nonexistent product.
This method worked successfully for them many times, allowing MS to either come up with a similar product, usually mediocre, or steal one, often the one they stopped distribution on. Either way, by the time it did come out, the other product was often belly-up because of customers staying away, waiting for the hyped MS product, or they went broke trying to fight MS in court for stealing their code.
See this link, Microsoft Convicted of software piracy for one company that did go broke, but the founders kept the lawsuit going, and won big time. It shows how one of the most ardent anti-piracy companies was found guilty of that exact act. It's unlikely that you can survive long enough, but if you do, you can prevail against MS. Well, sort of, I'm not sure if that company has been resurrected.

[Schneb]

"Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is coming to a sad realization, accept or deny?"
PC Guy - "Accept"