Ballmer Throws Chair at Third World for Low Vista Sales

See, this is what happens when you get lazy, delay your product, and lose your OS monopoly in a three-way battle with Linux and OS X. You start going nuts again.

Ballmer admitted to financial analysts that the predictions for Vista had proved ‘overly optimistic’ and he blamed the pirates in China, India, Brazil, Russia and other emerging markets.

He said his final solution would be to increase the intensity Windows Genuine Advantage as part of an effort to squeeze more revenue from developing nations.

Hey, Steve-o, here’s a hint: instead of making your DRM even more obtrusive to legitimate users, how about you actually give people really good reasons to give you wads and wads of their money? Even anime schoolgirls know how that works.

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February 20, 2007 | Filed Under Software 

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3 Responses to “Ballmer Throws Chair at Third World for Low Vista Sales”

  1. Emerging Earth - Dell Returns XP By Demand on April 22nd, 2007 2:18 pm

    [...] as an option on selected machines for the US home market. Ballmer was wrong: it’s low demand, not piracy, that keeps Vista sales [...]

  2. Why No One Loves Microsoft on May 14th, 2007 5:00 am

    [...] they’re fucking whiners. They whine about piracy, they whine about Google, they whine about the Third World. Hell, their whole business model was invented in a whine by Bill Gates thirty years ago. Whiners [...]

  3. Microsoft Wants Royalties from Linux! on May 14th, 2007 8:02 am

    [...] Ballmer’s always been crazy, but I never thought he was crazy enough to threaten every individual software customer in the free world. Microsoft certainly doesn’t need the money, so we can only attribute this blatant travesty to insane greed. [...]

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