“Steve Ballmer made his first solo presentation, sans Bill Gates, at the annual Microsoft analysts meeting on Thursday, claiming that he would be the ‘primary champion of innovation in our company,'” Kate DuBose Tomassi reports for Forbes. “Investors seemed underwhelmed, bidding the software company’s stock down nearly 2% on the day, perhaps less than excited by Ballmer’s contention that the company’s delayed Vista operating system and Office 2007 program could be Microsoft’s ‘most exciting offerings ever.'”
“In March, Microsoft announced delays of both products until late this year, and some analysts have pegged the Vista launch as more likely for next spring,” Tomassi reports. “The annual analyst meeting is the first ever to be conducted without Gates, who is in Africa. Ballmer said he feels he’s ‘entering into a new era’ as of the company’s June 15 announcement that Gates will transition from full-time to part-time over the next two years.”
“Other new Microsoft offerings mentioned were adCenter, an online advertising platform for the company’s MSN, launched in May; the Xbox 360 gaming console, launched last year with strong sales in June according to NPD data; and the company’s challenge to Apple Computer’s iPod, a new music player and online music service called Zune, scheduled to be launched this year,” Tomassi reports.
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MacDailyNews Take: Ballmer’s “entering into a new era” alright: The Apple era.
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I read this few moment ago on Yahoo. No comment, simply no comment
he’s absolutely right…he is…and that’s the problem
OMG! Bwahahahahahahahaha!
“The primary champion of self-powered lighting!”
Bwahahahahahahahaha!
This is the funniest shit I’ve read since, well, Fester’s last stupid comments.
He is amazing.
Another fat-ass billionaire with no clue.
“Ballmer: I’m Microsoft’s ‘primary champion of innovation’”
OMG! STOP! My sides hurt! STOP! AHHHH HAH HA HA HA . . . . <trying to breathe> . . .AHHHHHHHHH HAH HA HA HA HA HA ! ! ! !
Wow. That was good.
Steve Ballmer is proof that you don’t let the sales guy dorm-mate run the company.
The primary champion of big, fat, sweaty A-holes, I can see.
Forget about the same sentence, “Microsoft” and “innovation” don’t belong in the same language.
MDN MW: “heavy” (appropriate, as usual.)
OMFSCKING GOD THAT WAS FUNNY
Hey Ballmer, keep up the good work and you’ll make “chairman”, hehehehe.
Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers,
developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers,
developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers,
developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers,
whew!, I didn’t tell you to sit down!! *sweat drips all over*
I love this company.
QUACK!!
Just one question – Who let the dogs out?
Peace.
Really did laugh out loud! That photo of Fester and the caption has us rolling here at work!
One of the funniest things on MDN (or elsewhere) ever:
This article illustrated with Uncle Fester photo captioned:
The primary champion of self-powered lighting
I’m still laughing at it 10 minutes after I first saw it!
Roseanne just saw that photo and thought, “Yum, sexy.”
Gforce – you’ve got to stop that!!!
‘primary champion of innovation’
BWAAA-HAHAHAHAHA! AAAAHHHH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HEH-HEH, HEH-HEH, HEH-HEHAAAAA, HA-HAAAAAAH! HE-HOO-HAHAHAHAHAHA! YAAAHAHAHAHAAAA! (gasp) YEUAHAHAHAHA!! AAAH-HAHAHAH! (urp!) HEE-HEE-HAAAA-HAHAHAHAH! (choke, sputter) HEE, HEE, HEE-HEE… YA-HA, YA-HA, YAAAAH-HAHAHAHA…
gasp! HA-HA-HAAAARRRRGH!
(grasps chest, falls to floor…)
THUD.
That’s “all right”, not “alright”.
Lurker_PC
Do not believe anything you read in these forum. Mac zealots are just spreading FUD against Microsoft and Windows.
Remember, Vista, when it will be out, will be the best OS ever written on the planet. The ultimate reference in security and quality. Just believe.
Just believe it will be much better than XP, much better than OS X – Apple copied like mad from our design documents for Vista. But rest assured, Vista will be at least 10 times bigger than OS X: they can steal our ideas but cannot match our LOC numbers: we will always outpace them.
Now, what about pre-ordering Vista.
alright is just fine. It is a varian spelling of all right. Just look in any dictionary, even the one you have under your finger tips on any Mac.
Who are you? An English Teacher in Texas? I bet your honor student was George W.
AHHHAHHHAHHAHAHAHHAHAH
Can’t stop laughing…
AHHHAHHAHHAHHAHHAH
MDN misquoted Ballmer – SHOULD have read:
“primary chimpanzee of innovation”.
“primate champion of innovation”. Would have worked as well.
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The only reason uncle Fester would say such a thing as I’m the ‘primary champion of innovation in our company’ is
a) he’s feeling insecure and needs to say this out loud to convince himself that he is said champion
b) he’s worried that his position at the top is being questioned and he has to pound his chest and scare the other primates around him
c) all of the above
OK, OK – yeah I know humans are technically classified as primates, but you know what I meant. . .
Vista will be about as exciting as Charmin’s next product revision.
OK, that photo of Fester Ballmer made me lol. Thanks!
I laughed so hard I almost blew a snot outta my nose.
If Ballmer is the primary champion of innovation, he should have been fired by now.
So I guess the breakfast of champions is towels.
Shouldn’t his forehead have ‘tioV’ stamped on the front of it from the volleyball slam that he just got from MDN? LOL, keep serving them up on a platter.
M$ Exec – Sorry for the confusion. (seriously) The reference was to Ballmer NOT referring to us Mac fans.
Peace.