Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer predicts a turnaround in Windows Mobile’s market share, driven by the upcoming Windows Phone 7.
In an interview with CNNMoney.com’s Poppy harlow, Ballmer says, “We can do very well in mobile… [with] Windows Phone 7 which ships this year.”
Direct link to video via CNNMoney.com here.
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Good luck with that catchin’ on.
thing Steve Balmer gets paid by Apple to sink M$…. Of course: it’s a secret.
“Micros**t is all about giving people choices… because people like choices.”
What a clueless,*f*king dolt… Good God.
Spin that fcking marketing-speak like a fcking Dreidel, Steve…. spin it, spin it, SPIN iiiiiiitttttt…
May this clueless moron remain CEO of Micros**t for as long as it takes.
I hate the animated Google ads in the MDN iPad app.
“Choices”. Yes, “a range of choices”. Do I pay a huge monthly fee to the phone company to get phone calls on a crap Windows cell phone or do I spend just $199 or $299 and get an iPhone4 so I can love my smart phone while paying the same high monthly bills to the phone company.
Smile and pay it is. My sons and I got ours ordered and will upgrade to the world’s very best smart phone. NOT A WINDOWS TURD!
Did Microsoft’s research and development team get their order in for their team to copy / mimic the iPhone4? How can they start without their inspiration from Apple?
As in, Mobile, Alabama. Where MS will now open up it’s Zune III Fone factory.
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Really, in Mobile, they’re incredibly ignernt, and we’ll do well there.
Come on MDN, report facts!
“a range of choice” – yes, to choose absolute crap
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He looks a bit morose. Maybe he realizes that Windows Mobile 7 is his last chance to hold on the CEO position at M$. If that does not allow them to win back significant market share in smartphones, the BOD will can him. With Google handing out Android for free, it’s hard to see how M$ can do anything but fail in this market.
When are you going to be making this turnaround in the mobile space?
Ballmer: Zune, very Zune!
Like a crumbling castle…..
C’mon guys, you all forgot to put this in Ballmer’s frame of reference: Microsoft is, at best, a bit player in the smartphone market now. So ANY new sales is an uptrend, which in salesmanspeak, means you’re doing very well!
You just have to know how to talk Ballmerese, and you find he is correct (from his POV).
“…..a range of choice.”
Microsoft? Who would ever have guessed.
“We give people choices…” we prefer to be all things to everyone rather than making any engineering decisions. Pack everything in there, I say! Why, even in our cafeterias, we make people eat with Swiss Army knives instead of simple flatware. We want them to have a complete experience.
Of course Ballmer is going to put a positive spin on things. He can’t very well state the truth: “Our company, despite its brand awareness, limitless resources and domination of the desktop OS market, utterly failed to leverage those advantages into a coherent strategy for mobile devices and the creation of worthy products. I chalk it up to our arrogance and general complacency. We’ve been milking the Windows and Office cash cows for years and got soft. Consumers are demanding mobile devices that work well, and, unfortunately, slapping Windows mediocrity onto as many cruddy mobile sets as possible just doesn’t cut it…”
What? No pithy and trenchant comment from our old friend Zune Tang? Stand up, sir – your acolytes await
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Monkey boy on Prozac
I wish Google would hire this guy!
Steve Balmer:
“We can do very well in mobile… And next week I will announce that I’m the real Batman.”
Can some body please wake up this guy???
Notice how Ballmer responded to the question about Microsoft staying out of the hardware game and exclusively making software — he still doesn’t get it… Mobile users are demanding a functional unity between hardware and software, and Apple has shown how good the results cam be when both are done with care by a single manufacturer. Granted, Apple is a special company in this respect, but my point is that users are realizing the benefits that come with hardware and software made by one company.
Ballmer is still following the desktop OS strategy of selling as many licenses as possible and melding the software with lousy hardware made by other manufacturers, which inevitably leads to one place — a mediocre user experience. Microsoft got away with selling mediocrity in the desktop arena because it was an early player in the game and established itself quickly, and because consumers were willing to put up with its cruddy software in exchange for getting the cheapest hardware. That strategy won’t work in mobile, where users have had a taste of great usability and functionality on the iPhone and the standard has been set. Microsoft continues to risk nothing by staying away from mobile hardware manufacturing, so it will gain nothing in this market.
I honestly can’t even stand to look at this guy. When he talks you can’t take him serious. He wear a smirk 24/7 and he is a HORRIBLE speaker. Judas.
When you look at Steve, he’s just classy and honest. Balmer? Classless and in denial.
Just like Windows 7 has gained you market share; that is, restored part of what you lost with Vista.
Please keep this man in charge of Microsoft forever.
Don’t laugh, with all the money M$ is throwing at iPhone developers to migrate their apps, we might have a problem, not because people will love the phone but because M$ will flood the market with free deals, including free phones. They can afford to lose few $b.