“Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was egged by a protester during a speech he gave at a Hungarian University,” Matt Asay reports for CNET.
“As this video shows, the protester rose to his feet to challenge Microsoft for stealing billions in Hungarian taxpayer money, then started hurling eggs at Ballmer, who was forced to take cover behind a desk,” Asay reports.
Steve Balmer egged (angle 1):
Direct link to video via YouTube here.
Steve Balmer egged (angle 2):
Direct link to video via YouTube here.
Asay’s full blog post via CNET here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Pyeman” for the heads up.]
Ahh, the memories. Hopefully, those eggs were properly aged. Too bad the protester wasn’t more closely related to Al Hrabosky.
Inappropriate and uncivilized. Shameful behavior.
@ Gabriel
Ballmer does it all of the time
Shut up, Eddie. Seriously, just STFU you little twat.
@ Aquib
“don’t just go around throwing eggs you fuc*ing maniac”
Highlight > Services > TextEdit > New Window containing selection. … Right click > Start speaking …
Believe it or not Alex gets that sentence right “fuc*ing” and all.
On further reflection, he should have thrown a Zune at him……though that might have actually hurt him…….since they weigh a lot, and generally are brick shaped.
Those eggs might be the only things in that room that have been laid.
Ampar := Harsh
@Ampar
I must bow to a greater wit. Any efforts I could put forth after yours would most certainly appear puny.
Why isn’t forcing a Windows tax/lock-in on businesses in an emerging country similar to the current British & US companies selling cigarettes to children in the third world? Both will be paying for years to come. Neither makes the news.
At least write the tax code in Java or make it web-based to give businesses a choice.
… speaking of which I just tried Alex with:
“Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I’m going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to fucking kill Google.”
He does OK. Somehow I think he lacks the menacing tone required though.
I admire Steve Balmer, He takes that very professionally and also, He is the best Apple that apple has have in many years, we went so far in his dutties that he is working undercover at microsoft passing as it CEO to bringing its monopoly down.
Hungarian Higher Eggsucation? Looks like the Hungarian University of Economics takes their public spending very seriously. Maybe they need a more effective negotiating tactic.
I’m really proud of all the posters who recognise what a waste of time and energy this so-called protest actually represents.
Ballmer may run a wholly useless company with about as much charm and intellect as a warthog in heat, but let the market deal with him and Microsoft in the way that hurts it most – a near static market valuation (MSFT shares have risen at less than 3.125%/year for the last ten years: I’m no eggspert, but I’m certain there are better rates of return on offer) and an increasing inability to answer the needs of its customers.
Never ever hurt anyone! Don´t!
No chairs.. nothing… BAD KARMA!
@ HolyMackeral
“Why isn’t forcing a Windows tax/lock-in on businesses … similar to … companies selling cigarettes … in the third world?”
I don’t know. Is it because Windows doesn’t actually kill you or give you lung cancer, emphysema, peripheral vascular disease, heart disease, even gangrene?
I don’t approve of the lock-in, you understand. In fact, I most heartily disapprove of it. But Windows is not a killer — unless perhaps you’re running medical equipment on it and it runs with its accustomed level of reliability …
Perspective?
Nobody should be treated that way. Even him. The fact that MDN doesn’t see it that way tells us all something about their credibility.
I’m as big a Mac Fan as anyone but there are better ways to express ones dissatisfaction with MSFT.
Someday Enderle will write: Mac users love to chuckle when Mr. Ballmer is attacked in public…
Remember this thread.
Been a Mac user since ’87. Been an AAPL investor since ’99. I’m currently retired and living on what I made with those investments.
I’m pleased that so many found the protestors behavior wrong. I’m just as disgusted that so many found his behavior pretty cool. To the latter I say: grow up.
iEggs!
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marK
http://www.yourmacface.com
Must of been a DODO egg as old as the OS code they work with.
@ rws
“The fact that MDN doesn’t see it that way tells us all something about their credibility.”
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Friedrich_Nietzsche/
I kid.
Actually, no one was hurt; the thrower came off looking stupid; and Ballmer even got to come off smelling of roses, keeping his suit clean and passing it all off with a quip. I can’t take it as a serious matter.
And while it’s not the thing to do it does tell you something about what people have taken from Microsoft and how they feel. I sympathize with the Hungarians over this one.
I’d have thrown the egg under-arm and made him try and catch it..and the next…and the next…
Bet you he’d have made a Windows omelette of them…
Throwing eggs at Ballmer was just not right.
Everyone knows Ballmer prefers airborne office chairs.
@Macaday
Never put all your eggs on one basket case.
“Ballmer Shelled, Scrambles for Cover”