[Usagi]

Has anyone seen this guy? I would think that the leader of a multi-billion dollar company would display a little more self reservation. If you have to hype up your audience in this manner then I assume that your message must lack some substance.

Steve Ballmer on .........something

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc4Mz...elated&search=

 

[blessingx]

Yeah, the Monkey Boy incident is pretty old. Here's a recent take.

 

[Arainach]

Steve Ballmer's been with Microsoft almost since the beginning; he's not going anywhere any time soon. He's well known in the Computer industry for several personality quirks and obsessions.

 

[stewtheking]

He works with computers. He's forgotten how to communicate with people. It's not THAT surprising.

 

[Usagi]

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Originally Posted by blessingx /img/forum/go_quote.gif Yeah, the Monkey Boy incident is pretty old. Here's a recent take.

LOL, love the blue screen of death at the end!

 

[AlanY]

Steve Ballmer has always had a wrestler / car salesman public speaking style. He does this at MS company meetings too (at least he did at the one I went to, in 2000). He is also reputed to have quite a temper; there was a court case a while ago where one participant filed in an affidavit that he threw a chair across a room in anger.

That's not to say Steve is necessarily stupid -- many people who work at MS say he asks intelligent questions in private -- but I am personally doubtful of the man's intellect for a number of non-trivial reasons. I suspect that had he not been in the right place at the right time (the birth of MS), he would have had a fairly generic career in sales. It's possible he would have shifted to real estate or car sales rather than remaining in technology sales.

 

[Usagi]

I just thought of a great idea for a TV reality show called.......[size=x-small](drum roll)[/size].......Trading CEOs. To start off Steve Jobs and Steve Ballmer should switch companies for a month or so. Boy would that be a treat. What metamorphosis do you think either company would go through?

 

[Computerpro3]

Apple computers would become useful and Windows based machines would become sleeker. Best of both worlds!

 

[blessingx]

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Originally Posted by Usagi /img/forum/go_quote.gif What metamorphosis do you think either company would go through?

In a month nothing. Three months, disaster in both management systems. A year, OS X would open up, move to all hardware systems and get really buggy. Windows would be abandoned and Jobs would start a new company.