“Microsoft Corp’s chief executive attempted to laugh off the challenge of Google Inc’s planned computer operating system on Tuesday, conceding only that it was ‘interesting,'” Bill Rigby reports for Reuters.
“‘I will be respectful,’ Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said to laughs from the audience at a conference for the company’s technology partners in New Orleans, which was broadcast over the Internet,” Rigby reports. “‘Who knows what this thing is? To me, the Chrome OS thing is highly interesting,’ said Ballmer, choosing his words carefully and drawing more amusement from the largely pro-Microsoft crowd.”
“‘It won’t happen for a year and a half and they already announced an operating system,’ he added, referring to Google’s Android system for smartphones,” Rigby reports. “‘I don’t know if they can’t make up their mind or what the problem is over there, but the last time I checked, you don’t need two client operating systems,’ said Ballmer. ‘It’s good to have one.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Uh, Windows Vista and Windows Mobile? Doofus shoulda-been-a-used-car-salesman must think they’re one and the same because they share a brand name.
Rigby reports, “Ballmer’s previous attempts to make light of new competition have not always been successful. He also derided Apple Inc’s iPhone as too expensive, but it went on to take a significant share of the smartphone market.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Microsoft shareholders, besides being very fond of flatlining for the last *cough* decade, are obviously extremely supportive of integrating the mentally challenged into the workplace.
