Ballmer forgets Vista, Attacks Google
Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft, disbelieved in the idea of Paul Allen and Bill Gates at the beginning, and then somehow became the CEO when he saw what it has coming. For the first release of Windows, they were delayed for a year and he bowed not to have similar delay again. Vista was a classic prove of the opposite. Ballmer swear, in a not so nice words, he would put Google and their Eric Schmidt out of business, yet his words and cries didn’t stop Google from hitting the $500 benchmark, never slowed their growth online, never stopped them from stealing majority of Hotmail users in less than 3 years, and it didin’t seem any trouble for Bill Gates successor at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie to admire what Google are doing, admitting Microsoft are coming late in the game, but they will move full speed after Google’s tails.
All of that is supposed to make a person at least think twice, before he goes in public speech with Stanford students talking about the so called ‘insane’ growth strategy Google are following. Few days back I posted about one of the best speeches I ever heard, to the same Stanford college, except that it was by Steve Jobs. One is fully insane, complete waste of time and typical business driven speech, while the other is a summary of lessons to learn from one of the greatest contributers to the world of personal computers. It is becoming really ridiculous how Microsoft tries to teach Sun the 123′s of security, they go on public to demonstrate how Google are violating copyrights, when they just got out of a lawsuit paying over $1 bn dollar in cash. People blame me for being so Anti-Microsoft, but seeing this non-sense all day long I find it hard not to be so, don’t you think?
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[...] Microsoft officials have confirmed their plans to reward companies who convince (or possibly enforce) their employees to use Live Search instead of other search engines (HINT: Google). The reward could be between $2 and $10 per computer annually, plus $25000 enrollment credit. Yesterday we saw Ballmer mocking Google growth strategy, and now we read this. To grow, you have to buy your customer with physical cash money! The leaders of software, the company who’s unofficial slogan was “We Set The Standards” is now begging and paying people to let them use their latest technologies. Few months back Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, talked about how their Live technology will start to pick up over the next 5 years, they started pulling big customers like Amazon network away from Google as well. Ever since I started getting weird results. I have to put in more search words, to get more results. Quite opposite to logic! God knows what they offered Amazon to accept their technology, and hope Google can sneak into Microsoft top secret labs to see how they can buy out more users! This can go in the Marketing For Dummies book. When you just have excess money, you can get all people to try your stuff in return. I hope my management doesn’t find out about this, otherwise they will try to convince me to use Live Search technology. They will convince me eventually with what ever it takes. They make offers sometimes you can’t refuse! If you know what I mean. [...]
I find it difficult to take Steve Ballmer seriously.