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We'll Miss You Bill!
Talkback If only he could convince his good friend Steve Balmer to step down aswell, maybe we'd see innovation inspired by a new generation. But that's wishful thinking, there's no one more tenetious than Mr Balmer!
[January 29, 2008, 15:42]
BSD Bug Found And Fixed After 25 Years
News All BSD derivatives were found to contain the bug, according to Marc Balmer, a Swiss developer closely involved with OpenBSD. Much to my surprise, I not only found this problem in all other BSDs or BSD-derived systems, like Mac OS X, but also in...
[May 12, 2008, 15:32]
Ballmer Cites 'facts' In Microsoft's Battle Against Linux
Talkback So Mr Balmer people should look into choosing the correct computing platform when running mission critical processes ! Anonymous (Because I know how Mr Balmer likes to go into companies and convince management with cheaper licences etc.
[October 28, 2004, 1:57]
Is Ballmer's $100 PC Possible?
Talkback Of, course Balmer is probably right! Software piracy would fall when we get the $100 machine. Such a PC will likely be unable to run Windows and may mean Linux being the only sensible option!
[November 12, 2004, 15:57]
Microsoft's Antitrust Concessions Are 'pointless'
Talkback Have you read the "official opinion" by the ms-CEO (mr.beef stalmer, ehhh, steve balmer ;-) ) stating "Linux is a tumor" and "Open_Source slows down innovation" ? @ Jon & others who, how exceptional !
[August 1, 2005, 6:57]
IPhone For Enterprise? Apparently Not...
Blog Comment Apart from the "outrageous price" these are all points Balmer was raising when he was interviewd on CNNBC a while back. The analysts in this case are just following orders. It is in "everyones" best interest for this product to fail and fail badly.
[April 26, 2007, 13:15]
Ballmer On Linux: 'The Evidence Is Clear'
Talkback Pretty much anything you hear from Balmer - expect the opposite. It must be getting cold in Redmond - Steve's bald egg must be freezing for him to think IT security is going to go away in the next three years.
[November 4, 2004, 13:29]
Home PCs Need Thinning Out
Talkback How long would it take for Balmer, Gates, and company to literally drool with the possibilities of your advocacy. Yep, And how long would it be until the use of these were mandatory for all citizens. How long would it be until microsoft was made...
[December 9, 2004, 17:55]
Facts Or FUD?
Talkback According to Balmer, an element of this is being repaid to represent a payment to Microsoft to recompense MS for patent infringement which Novell specifically deny. In my experience, when Companies have even the slightest inclination that their...
[November 23, 2006, 13:25]
A Great Deal For Yahoo Shareholders!
Talkback Steve Balmer mentions that they'd be able to save $1billion a year in costs by combining the two operations, seems positive, but MSN.com and Yahoo.com serve similar content, will they have to shut one of them down?
[February 2, 2008, 15:39]
Ballmer's Attack On Open Source Boosts Linux, Say OSIA
Talkback If linux was not a real competitor to M$ Mr Balmer did'nt speak like he do abd like he did for Netware , Mac-os and other unix I can say to XP is a very good chance for linux desktop As i saw in my company which is jumping from W98 to XP and...
[November 2, 2004, 10:39]
Rogue Code Can Take Down Linux Systems
Talkback Assume your copy of windows is (vulnerable) unless you have good reason to believe it is safe," Steven Balmer said in an advisory. Rogue click can take down Windows systems! A security flaw in the windows operating system has been discovered.
[June 17, 2004, 5:40]
An 'Outlook Killer' Is In Devlopment Over At OOo -- It Will Spell The Beginning Of The End Of Microsoft Office
Member Review With the extremely fast and still growing popularity of OOo and other truly outstanding Open Source projects such as Mozilla; it's no wonder Steve Balmer and Bill Gates are spending so much time on 'campaign speeches' trying to knock down Open...
[November 10, 2003, 8:00]
Gartner: Ignore Vista Until 2008
Talkback And again we will listen to the tale that this time it is correct, like W/2000 "The OS that will never need a fixpack" as stated by Balmer. "Don't give me any arguments about how free any *nix solution is, because retraining your entire workforce...
[November 17, 2005, 7:34]
Monthly Fix To Streamline Microsoft Patching
News The software giant's chief executive, Steve Balmer, said that the monthly schedule will help companies prepare to patch computers. Microsoft released its first monthly security update on Wednesday, following a new schedule that attempts to ease the...
[October 16, 2003, 11:00]
And The Richest Man In The World Is...
News Earlier this week, Microsoft revealed that both Gates and Balmer had kept their pay almost static at just over $900,000. Bill Gates may not have had much of a pay rise this year but he did manage to add $2bn to his fortune to bring it up to $48bn...
[September 24, 2004, 16:30]
Ballmer's Bullish Outlook
Talkback Conclusion 1: mr.s.balmer - like ms in its entirety - is incapable producing anything usefull, exept FUD, bloated talk and pure nonsense. Fact: There's not even 1 version of ms-wares to be considered safe enough to use on the WWWeb (compared to the...
[June 12, 2005, 0:13]
Gates To CES: Less Is More - For MS, Too
News He showed a slickly produced video, starring him and chief lieutenant Steve Balmer and a host of other celebrities. When you think of convergence, you think of consolidation, right? Less is less. But Bill Gates sees it the other way around: When it...
[January 6, 2000, 15:03]
Apple's Tough Year Buys A Bright Future
Talkback Balmer might begin loosing the last few hairs on his head over the next few years. I Fully agree. By making this move, they will be a viable option to all users who may have gone in for Microsoft of Linux on intel platform.
[June 9, 2005, 16:38]
Top Ten Things Wrong With Zune
Blog Comment And please don't tell me about the fact the unit will be hacked to allow people to do things like that because that really is hypocritical when you have the boss - Balmer - saying that most of the music on an iPod is stolen.
[November 25, 2006, 10:15]
