Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was deze week tijdens een keynote in het Gartner Symposium ITxpo (Orlando) weer eens in zijn oude vorm en haalde fors uit richtiing Google. Hoewel de keynote vooral moest gaan over de lancering van Windows 7 waren ook een aantal andere opmerkingen zeker zo boeiend.
Over Vista : "Windows 7 will be Vista, but a lot better"
Over Yahoo : "We offered $33 bucks (for Yahoo) and it’s $11 today, It’s
clear Yahoo didn’t want to sell. They probably still think it’s worth
more than $33 a share. I still think it makes sense for their
shareholders and ours.”
Over Google Docs: “People don’t use it. People try Google Apps, they don’t use it. You can’t even put a footnote in a document!. Google has “very primitive” capabilities. “We have better competition today than Google Docs and Spreadsheets. We get more competition from OpenOffice and StarOffice frankly".
Over Cloud computing : "Why should people care?, We have
a big announcement in two weeks at our Professional Developers
Conference and we’re going to run through this stuff, it’s critical
Microsoft has a platform in the cloud because it’s more than just
hosting".
