If there is ever a sequel to "Young Frankenstein" Ballmer would look great with bolts sticking out of his neck.

Hold onto XP as long as you can
Vista is a downgrade not an upgrade.

Um, what kind of 'strategy' would that be, exactly? Multimedia monopoly, 24/7/365 cohesive
propaganda.com? Hmmm....the nice thing ABOUT
the internet is that there's a bunch of
small-timers, diverse viewpoints on a lot of
stuff, not all wholly-owned subsidiaries of
Bullshit Industries, Inc., LLC., etc...

Balmer is not the brightest techie around. During a Government monopoly case he insisted MS wasn't squeezing out competitor X. When the government produced emails showing they were, Balmer acted like he didn't know what emails were.

Microsoft is a monopoly and should not be allowed to buy out competitors.
Microsoft should broken up not allowed to grow. b

Website Takedown Report!

www.hillcap.org
www.peterfpaul.com

Both, yesterday anyway, featured movies of Hillary Clinton grossly and intentionally flaunting campaign finance laws and then using all three branches of government to cover it all up. It was and is priceless!

Hey, I will let oilwars.com go for 3 million - everyone has his price..........axe gw bush and his pals

The web is changing from web 2.0 to web 3.0. That may even make most of what microsoft and google has all irrelevant.

Hope Balmer recognizes the move to Web 3.0 before it is too late. There are some awesome companies out there that are moving away from the software models of the last 15 years of disparate wordprocessor/spreadsheet/presentation models.

Yes I see the madness just beyond his eyes.

Check out this shaved ape in his FULL glory:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc4MzqBFxZE

Hilarious photo!




kudos

Can you spell world domination?

Basically, what Ballmer is saying is that he has no faith in his own company to come up with the "next big thing," so he's going to buy up 100 little companies in the hopes that one of them will light a fire under an ice-cold Microsoft. If I were one of Ballmer's employees, I'd be both dejected and embarrassed. The Good Ship Microsoft is steaming ahead at full speed, but the rudder is broken, and there's a madman at the helm.

I'll sell ya www.pets.com for 346 million.

Damn good thing Bill Gates has the money to buy himself a good reputation because that Ballmer is one scary motherfucker.

As General Douglas MacArthur said "Defeat in battle is two little words...'too late'"

It is now "too late" for Microsoft. The long run from the dumb luck of Gary Kildall not being karma ready for his potential high end fate...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall

... and Tom Patterson having written "Quick and Dirty DOS" (Q-DOS) for the two fetch Intel 80286 at Seattle Computer in 1980 ... so Bill Gates could buy it for $50,000 ... is finally over.

Sure. They have lots of money. But the jig is up. "Parties over...out of time." They don't have the chops now to do anything original and important. There are many other FREE software technologies now that are going to take over the digital future of the world.

But I do salute and fully admire Bill Gates for giving a lot of that money back to society now after the rain.

After all, the taxpayers of the United States in the 1950's, 1960's, and 1970's paid for ALL the R&D that created MOSFET technology in weapons guidance systems research that eventually gave the long ride to Intel after the initial shakeout, and then Wintel. The rest was history.