“This fall, Microsoft is embarking on one of its biggest series of launches ever, with new versions or updates of nearly all its products and services, from Windows to Windows Phone, Office to Windows Server,” Janet I. Tu reports for The Seattle Times. “On top of that, the company is debuting its first branded computing devices: the Surface tablets.”
Tu reports, “Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer, who has called this year ‘the most epic year in Microsoft history,’ sat down for an interview with The Seattle Times last week to talk about the new products and services, the state of the company and the future.”
Some snippets from Ballmer:
• You know, Windows 95 was certainly the biggest thing in the last 20 years until now. I think Windows 8 certainly surpasses it.
• Screaming loudly doesn’t work very well in our industry.
MacDailyNews Take:
• If you look at the bulk of the PC market, it would run between, say, probably $300 to about $700 or $800. That’s the sweet spot [for Surface tablet pricing].
• Just yelling loudly in any business is never going to help.
MacDailyNews Take:
Someone really should explain to Ballmer T. Clown the purpose of a microphone.
• I think you always want to have a system that has a chance to recognize people who are doing a great job, a good job, and helping people who are still doing maybe even a decent job, but they’re not doing as good a job as the other folks. It helps to let those people recognize where they stand.
MacDailyNews Take: Microsoft’s downfall: Inside the executive e-mails and cannibalistic culture that fueled Microsoft’s lost decade – July 7, 2012
• “Q: Where do you see Microsoft’s position in five years, 10 years?” Ballmer: First of all, I’d say: pre-eminent technology company.
• We’re trying to really re-imagine the world from the ground up with Windows 8.
MacDailyNews Take: Yes, the netherworld.
• You know, Windows 8 is going to do great… It’s a fantastic product.
Read more in the full interview here.
MacDailyNews Take: Let’s take a look at some reviews of Windows 8:
• Valve co-founder Newell: ‘Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space’ – July 26, 2012
• ZDNet’s Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft’s Windows 8 is an awful, horrible, painful design disaster – June 8, 2012
• Dvorak: Windows 8 an unmitigated disaster; unusable and annoying; it makes your teeth itch – June 3, 2012
• The Guardian: Microsoft’s Windows 8 is confusing as hell; an appalling user experience – March 5, 2012
I love iCal stories. 🙂
I don’t want to know anything about Ballmer’s “sweet spot.”
Hmm those employee uniforms look like something I have seen before….and I love the gentleman who is filming with an iPhone in the Microsoft store haha.
“I think Windows 8 certainly surpasses it (Windows 95).”
After several attempts, we have finally surpassed an OS that was written in the early 1990s! We at MicroSoft call that INNOVATION! Bravo to us!
I like it, I like it a lot.
~ So said Ballmer, and no one else.
Read the original article, kind of boring. Tu just asked standard vanilla questions and Balmer gave his standard sales pitch.
It’s much more fun over here.
of course, clueless jerk.
“If you look at the bulk of the PC market, it would run between, say, probably $300 to about $700 or $800. That’s the sweet spot [for Surface tablet pricing].”
Sweet spot???? A window of $4-500 is not a “sweet spot”. It’s a lame-ass excuse of “I have no idea”.
Not that I expected much from Uncle Steve.
Does anyone know if Ballmer’s tongue is hairy or normal?
I’ll check it out at our next tryst.
Might be a good long while, though—like, forever.
Guys, if you’d take Ballmer-Clown serious after he made THIS :
you’d be as batshit crazy as Ballmer is (in a bad way)
“recognize people who are doing a great job, a good job, and helping people who are still doing maybe even a decent job, but they’re not doing as good a job as the other folks.”
Apple is doing a Great Job.
Is Microsoft even doing the “Decent Job”???
Well at least Ballmer knows were he stands. Last AND Least. 🙂
I actually hope that Windows Phone 8 and all its ilk have good ideas and innovations and do well. Nothing but good can come from them pushing Apple to stay ahead of the curve. As long as they’re being fresh and creative – why the hell not? Apple doesn’t have a licence on creativity.
Google and Android, on the other hand, represent stolen IP and I wish them nothing but ill and hope they gag on the transcripts of all their legal proceedings.
Just sayin’.
We need to support Win 8 to fragment the Android market. Win 8 won’t cause any problem to iOS, only to Android.
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