Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft Corp., talks with Bloomberg’s Matt Miller and Carol Massar about his recent trip to the White House to help advise Obama on ways to “drive productivity, innovation, [and] customer service in government.”
MacDailyNews Take: What’d Balmy advise, “Throw chairs, copy Apple, and tell ’em to ‘wipe and reinstall?'” If you really want to know how to drive productivity, innovation, and customer service, why not save time, jet fuel, and loads of taxpayers’ money and do a simple iChat with Steve Jobs? Oh, sorry, we just applied efficiency, common sense, and simple logic to an issue involving the government. Silly us.
Ballmer also talked about his company’s strategy after Google Inc. threatened to pull out of China last week. Microsoft wants to be part of the solution in the country, Ballmer said. He said U.S. companies should be involved with China because its important for domestic job growth.
Direct link to video here.
MacDailyNews Take: Hmm, how to drive productivity, innovation, and customer service in government? That’s a toughie. Hey, let’s ask Steve Ballmer!
For the sake of the country, hopefully Obama only asked for Ballmer’s advice in order to quickly clarify exactly what not to do.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
Why the muppet from Microsoft surely they should ask Steve if they really do want to be enlightened
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Nice thought and intentions, (Wanted to become more tech savvy and advanced) EPIC FAIL on his search method and resources. Even Throwup, Enderhurl and DorkVac could have come closer to giving good advice.
Uncle Fester? meh……
MDN word, NOT, as in not too bright, not a good move, not in the country’s best interest and etc
Innovation is easy, just copy Apple
The selection of Ballmer is basically in line with the amateurish and pathetic cabinet choices we’ve seen. I mean this is the guy who put a glorified secretary in charge of the CIA.
The president asks Ballmer advice on innovation?! Obama is a big disappointment…
Only … ONLY … dumbass Hussein would be so fscking stupid to ask Balmer about productivity and innovation.
This president is the dumbest thing to ever enter the beltway. God, he has got to go.
Asking Ballmer for tips on innovation is like asking Rush Limbaugh for tips on race relations.
OMFG, Obama is toast now for sure.
Forget Massachusetts, it’s over when Fester advises the President…
If they have to ask, it’s because they don’t know how themselves.
PROOF? Look who they asked.
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OK, Mr President. If that tea seeps down and fries my circuit-board, I’m asking the feds to reimburse me!
And in other news, the President asked the CEO of McDonald’s for advice on ways of making our diets healthier.
Sheesh.
It’s not Obama that needs to go, it’s the whole fscking government that obsolete!
I’m no Obama fan, but I thought he was a Mac guy?????
Oh wait.. he appointed a Microsoft guy to be head of national infrastructure security as well… I see a pattern here.
MacDailyNews Take: What’d Balmy advise, “Throw chairs, copy Apple, and tell ’em to ‘wipe and reinstall?'”
I just hope Ballmer remembers to wipe, period.
The Obama administration is really screwed now.
It’s ironic but George W. Bush’s refusal to use e-mail showed more tech savvy in that one decision than any of the silly tech related decisions from the Obama administration.
Cue Conan O’Brien’s recent song about NBC executives: “Morons…MORONS”
Thanks MDN – that headline made me spew Pepsi Max all over my MBP.
MS innovation? ha! ahahaha!, ha!-ha!-ha! aha! hahahahahahahaha! aaahahahaha!
(hysterical laughing) aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhahahahahahah! wo-ahahaha!! hahahahaha !
huhuhahahah hahaha! !!
(7-up and snot coming out of my nose)
ahahaha! ha! ha!
aahhhahahahahahah!
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This highlights what is wrong with Government. Microsoft? Not Google….nor Apple? Seriously, Microsoft isn’t a player……it’s a copier. And Microsoft is the cause of a lot of the world’s problems with Viruses and Spyware and worms (oh my).
Obama fails……..again
Obama’s the Second Coming alright…
…of Carter.
All innovation comes from a lack of funds for doing things the same old way. Cut all department’s budgets by 10% and put people with private sector experience in charge and you’ll get tons of innovation.
But that isn’t how the institution of government works when the mindset is always to throw money at the “problem”.
YIKES!! That is scary. Ballmer wouldn’t know innovation if fell out of the sky and hit him on the head.
A story with both a political and a Microsoft hook on MDN?
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