Windows
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.
Bill Gates on Mac Ads: “I Don’t Get It”
Too bad Bill Gates didn’t get into a fight with John “I’m a PC” Hodgman when he appeared on The Daily Show.
I don’t think the over 90 percent of the [population] who use Windows PCs think of themselves as dullards, or the kind of klutzes that somebody is trying to say they are.
And I don’t know why [Apple is] acting like it’s superior. I don’t even get it. What are they trying to say? Does honesty matter in these things, or if you’re really cool, that means you get to be a lying person whenever you feel like it? There’s not even the slightest shred of truth to it.
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