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.
MacDailyNews Take: Zune.
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OMG, he really looks beaten. Ouch!
Microsoft – a bad choice for everyone!
His use of the word “can” took him from being a leader of the company to someone like…. maybe the coach whose team is behind 9-2 in the bottom of the ninth inning, two outs, no one on base and the batter has a 0-2 count. On the outside he’ll try to say encouraging things to his team, it’s his job. But inside he knows there is absolutely no chance his team will come from behind and win. He just doesn’t sound convincing to anyone.
I’m having flashbacks to Baghdad Bob.
Dead man’s croak. He knows he’s missed the biggest switch in tech history, and he knows we know that he knows it.
with thanks to D. Rumsfeld.
Quote from Ballmer,
“The paid blogosphere really likes Windows 7 Phone. They like it a lot.”
Remember Rob Enderle’s “Apple fifth column inside Microsoft” conspiracy?
I rolled my eyes when I first read that, but it’s starting to make sense now. Seriously, how else does one explain Ballmer’s utter incompetence? Nobody’s that stupid. Not even Enderle.
Microsoft would have been better off with a monkey as CEO. Because no one else at Microsoft would have listened to the monkey.
I insist… M$ should get into the copier machine business.. err. wait.. they are already??? oooh duh!
‘We can do very well in mobile’
Just keep telling yourself that Mr. Ballmer. You’ve got a lot of cash to run through before you’ve killed Microsoft.
Ms phone software will succeed
windows is secure
everyone needs ms office
all hilarious
Anyone want to speculate yet on the Kin customer revolt when they figure out that their phone OS was abandoned before the Kin was even brought to market?
There Will Be Blood.
I believe Ballmer is a mole. More specific I believe Ballmer is a closet Mac user and is secretly destroying Microsoft from within for the benefit of his beloved Mac experience. My evidence of this is no one in any position of leadership has done less to further his company than Ballmer. Just a random thought.
From 9to5mac.com:
“iPad ‘hacker’ home searched. Cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, and other schedule 2 and 3 pharmaceuticals found…”
“Wow. One of the main members of the Goatse Security group, Andrew ‘Escher’ Auernheimer (who goes by the hacker handle Weev) was arrested after officials searched his house. They found a stash that would make Bad Lieutenant blush.
We’re not really sure how they found drugs when they were looking for computers/logs but, looking at the fellow (right), the news isn’t terribly shocking. (Damn hippy!!!)
Goatse did expose at least one and probably more blatant security holes left by AT&T;.
Update: turns out this guy might be a pretty unsavory fellow.”
NOW WE KNOW WHO THIS GUYS SUPPLIER IS BECAUSE BALLMER MUST BE ON SOME SMACK WITH A STATEMENT LIKE THAT!
Ballmer has been officially “Zuned” by MDN. LOL
There ought to be Zune Awards given out here every once in a while for Technical Un-achievement, Marketing Irrelevance and Product Disasters.
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Will be hard to top Ballmer in the Marketing Irrelevance department.
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Honestly, again, I know it’s in jest, some of this, but imagine a world without MS?
Steve hit it: people don’t want binary choices. I love Apple, and use their products… wouldn’t ever be without my iPhone. But imagine everyone using an iPhone? Imagine everyone using MacBook Pros and Mac Minis?
It’s not a world I would wish to be in. We do want choice. We do want companies to compete with each other. It means that the world will not be myopic, not monopolized by a few companies and a few people.
Let MS come to the mobile world. I hope they have some good innovation. All that is going to happen is that people will pick up ideas from what they have done, and the good, the really good (i.e. iOS), will get that much better. And MS will simply be chasing technologies that are much more stable and evolved than theirs.
Steve Ballmer: dead man walking.
Absolutely delusional. I hope he keeps running Microsoft for a long time.
Windows Phone is going to be the same smashing success as that…..what was it called? Yah, “Zune” or something like that.
>Steve hit it: people don’t want binary choices. I love Apple, and use their products… wouldn’t ever be without my iPhone. But imagine everyone using an iPhone? Imagine everyone using MacBook Pros and Mac Minis?
I think competition is good/necessary for business/consumers. However, copying others creativity, then marketing it as innovative is pretty fscked up. Time and again MS has led the field in copying others achievements and calling it their own. When are other Companies going to realize that creative excellence is in everyone’s best interest???
Monkey Boy– Don’t change- Just be you baby!
I’d like to play Ballmer’s dome like a bongo…
Yes, with Windows (and, soon, Windows Sphincter Embedded 7 Colon Super Enema Edition), you do have a choice. You have a choice of mediocrity in hardware and software. You have the freedom to change cosmetic aspects of your Windows operating system environment while being stuck with the rotten guts. Choice isn’t always that great, is it?
Yes, Apple has flaws. Yes, Apple does some things that irritate users. But let us not forget that Apple has broken down barriers in music, cell phones, ebooks, and tablets. But people have forgotten – after a few months or a few years people forget that Apple broke music DRM and fought hard for the 99 cent track, Apple brought us a more reasonably priced voice/data cell plan, and Apple broke the long contract data plan approach with the iPad. Someday soon Apple will do the same for video.
Apple isn’t afraid to take a stand against mediocrity. What has Microsoft and the like done for you lately. Try making a list – it will be very short.
And THE LAUGH OF THE DAY AWARD goes to:
@KingMei who sez:
“Yes, with Windows (and, soon, Windows Sphincter Embedded 7 Colon Super Enema Edition), you do have a choice. You have a choice of mediocrity in hardware and software.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Oo! I wet ’em!
Ballmer looks terrible, and sounds even worse.
Ballmer looks and sounds like he’s very tired, and just barely able to once again bring himself to recite these weary, old, repeated-a-million-times, hollow talking points.
Ballmer knows he’s now starring in a movie,
“Things To Do In Redmond When You’re Dead”,
and Ballmer knows the ending.
But Ballmer has none of the of the grace and dignity that Andy Garcia brought to his movie.
Ballmer;
Down,
down,
down,
…
And I couldn’t be happier!
I wonder if he walks around rolling two ball bearings in his hand while mumbling to himself how everyone is conspiring against him to let people get away with not paying for intellectual property and copy righted material.
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Ballmer is a legend in his own mind.