Ah, just like the old days when robber barons ruled the world. If only Balmer would devote as much energy to creating insanely great products. Oh, sorry. That’s the other guy.
Microsoft, Google trade salvos over exec – Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer vowed to “kill” Internet search leader Google Inc. in an obscenity-laced tirade, and Google chased a prized Microsoft executive “like wolves,” according to documents filed Friday in an increasingly bitter legal battle between the rivals.
After learning [Microsoft engineer, Mark] Lucovsky was leaving to take a job at Google, Ballmer picked up his chair and hurled it across his office, according to the declaration.
Ballmer then pejoratively berated Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Lucovsky recalled.
“I’m going to f—— bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again,” the declaration quotes Ballmer. “I’m going to f—— kill Google.”
Typical of the mind set at the big M
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This is the same moron promising trustworthy computing, meanwhile new holes appear in windows everyday and Vista is over a year away and features are being stripped off to the point where it will be nothing more then XP SP3.
I like him better when he goes all around the place screaming and jumping…
Not that I’m a Ballmer fan, but it’s not exactly atypical CEO behavior to pitch a fit. Steve Jobs would have probably thrown the chair through a window, then blame the other guy. You make a prima donna, you got to expect it to act like one.
Gates isn’t much better. A while ago Gates was quoted as sacrastically saying, in relation to Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, that they’re “so cool that you just can’t even deal with it” and “At least they know to wear black.”
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,1050065,00.html
More recently he has referred to Google as a “bubble” implying that it’s only a matter of time before it goes bust.
http://www.techenclave.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3824
Why is the richest fucking man in the world so god damn petty?! It’s like he’s 13 years old telling his 4 year old adversary that “my dad can kick your dad’s ass.”
Does Gates have some sort of psychological/mental condition? It is impossible for him to admit the truth that Google is succeeding because people LIKE it! That it works. That it’s the BEST search engine by any standard. And further that Google isn’t some mindless fad that will simply disappear.
It’s also quite apparent that he feels resentment because neither he nor Microsoft has ever been considered “cool.” He keeps jabbing at them for their perceived coolness and it makes him look like an idiot. In all apologies to Homer Simpson, Gates couldn’t be cool, on the coolest day of his life, with an electrified cooling machine.
Why can’t he (and Balmer for that matter) take the high road and say, “Google has better technology right now, but we’ll be better.” The guy is worth about 50 BILLION dollars for godsakes. By any standard (other than coolness) he’s a success. Why is he acting like this?!
Google is going to own those fools
Finally getting a taste of their own medicine! I love to see hypocrits in pain.
Ten years ago this story would have been taken at face value. Google would be put on a death watch.
Now, it’s a joke. M$ has become the IBM of old: Too big to move fast, too bloated to work towards a common goal.
James Hill
Picture reminds me of doctor Charles Winchester III on the tv series M*A*S*H