Don't oust Ballmer! That guy is too good to be true if you are a Mac fan. (The more dumb stuff he says, the better off we are).

again - what Ballmer commenting on Anrdoid has anything to do with Apple or the Mac is beyond me MacNN.

But once agina Ballmer opens mouth and inserts foot.

And, as if being in the pocket of every millennial, with GPS data, search data, contact data, profiling everything about that user isn't more valuable than providing a S***** operating system on the non-mobile screen - then why the h*** was Microsoft wanting to buy Yahoo?
Google will be selling ads that don't cost anything to produce, long after Linux has eaten Vista's lunch.

He has to be one of the stupidest, most deluded executives working in tech today. How this man hasn't been fired by the board for his behavior and semi-retarded comments is a true wonder.

What do you expect him to do? Praise the competition? He has to take the only approach he can, which is to pretend everything is peachy in M$land and the competition is struggling.
That's supposed to buy them time while they scramble to catch up with some crappy product. By the time that product fails, they're hoping the focus will be on something else so they won't have to keep revisiting the issue.
That approach works as long as you get a share of hits as well as misses; but when the competition is nibbling you alive like a bunch of fire ants devouring a paralyzed elephant, at some point someone is going to notice the stinking decaying carcass in the room...

Clearly, there's no future for MS.
I predict a slow decline into irrelevance, much like GM.

Clearly, there's no future for MS.
I predict a slow decline into irrelevance, much like GM.

This guy has been wrong so often and so often who listens to him?

"he doesn't understand the strategy."

Is Balmer just an absolute moron?? What is there to understand?
Everyone agrees that the mobile phone internet access market is the "next big thing" in technology, with hundreds of millions of users coming online in the next decade, especially as many in developing countries will not have traditional PCs.

Right now, with this market still in relative infancy, the current operating systems and software used on mobile devices is still very primitive and has been holding back mobile internet use for a long time. the introduction of Apple's iPhone and now Android is significantly shaking up the whole market --- internet use (and other interactive applications)on a mobile phone is now becoming relatively easy to use and an enjoyable experience.

With this situation, how in the heck can Balmer NOT see the incredible opportunity in Google's ambition to vastly speed up the adoption of advanced devices and mobile internet usage (and hence Google service usage) while at the same time controlling the platform to ensure their services have the best possible integration?!

Based on Microsoft's consistent history of pathetic Windows mobile releases and particularly the horrid Internet explorer mobile, I just can't fathom why the board of MS doesn't throw this idiot overboard!! Without even bringing the fiasco of 'Vista' into this conversation, it is clear that MS is in DIRE need of new leadership at the helm to turn this ship around!
If I were in charge, I'd round up every single manager and team leader involved with "PlayForSure", Zune, and Windows Mobile and sack 'em. MS badly needs a completely revamped integration strategy to take on the iPhone and Android, starting with a from-the-ground-up re-think of Windows mobile -- removing ALL of the legacy CE CRUD!

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that has got to be the most intelligent thing that has ever come from the man's mouth. clearly, straight from the brain.

Seems like you should have a generic title for any story involving Ballmer that simply reads "Steve Ballmer Talks Smack About Competitors' Products. Again. (Number 1003 in a series)". It'd save you a lot of time. I know it would save me time since I could just skip the story as a whole.