Balmer's job is to essentially take anything that smells like rotten eggs within Microsoft and present it, instead, as a basket full of roses. :-)
I mean, he really is the consummate salesman. :-)
Hey, at least he's honest!
If you had to share a room with your choise of Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates, or Steve Ballmer, how would you order them?
---Joel
Yes. No question. Irks me, though.
In a rare moment.
Bill Gates first -- too much shared history, likely too much shared experience "back in the day" and too much in common in the future, as well... Besides, I have a very serious proposal I'd like to make to the Gates Foundation, so that would easily be my first choice. Steve Ballmer would be at the bottom -- we share nothing in our world views and I have nothing to share with him. So The Woz would be second.
Only one second to order them.
Jon
On a sunny day (Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:10:50 -0700) it happened Jon Kirwan wrote in :
OK, yes one has to be in a way aggressive and flexible on morals to keep all those people in their jobs. Pity it does not help people to better software. They are trying very hard to stay in business, today I was reading that they now will pay and provide free soft to application developers for their new windows phone 7 .. In German:
If I had to bet I would say it must fall (MS). They even tried using their political influence to mark countries that support open source as 'copyright violators' and hit those with a trade embargo. US likes free trade, except when others are hurting their profits. I know Balmer types, in a way I respect them. But too much power makes a dangerous situation sometimes.
He's also head of the dirty tricks division.
No, he's scum. Salesman is just an application.
Well, you did say "share a room". ;-)
"Get out of my room."
Ed
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