Ballmer: "[Microsoft's online unit] are 3 year olds playing basketball with 12-year olds!"

http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/10/18/microsoft-google-domination-technology-software-cx__wt_1018microsoft.html

by jimbokun • 19 years ago

6 5 19 years ago

"You're 3-years-old and you're playing basketball with 12-year-olds. You're going to dunk on the other guys some day!"

If that's what the CEO really thinks, maybe time to short MSFT.

gscott2• 19 years ago

That statement predicts the growth of the online unit will trump the growth of other units. I believe Ballmer is just too smart for most people to understand and he uses his own language, he doesn't care if others understand he knows that only action is going to prove himself correct.

joeguilmette• 19 years ago

He comes off as arrogant and psychotic.

gscott2• 19 years ago

Might be from subliminal programming in windows itself that flashes on the screen so fast that you don't notice but your subconscious does. I use windows and I am just like him, I use lots of weird analogies that no one appreciates.

jimbokun• 19 years ago

"I believe Ballmer is just too smart for most people to understand and he uses his own language, he doesn't care if others understand..."

So he's Humpty Dumpty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpty_dumpty#References_in_pop...

henning• 19 years ago

Part of Microsoft's history is actually being good when it really matters, I don't know if they still have that in them.

'Asked if he thought Google's word processing and spreadsheet applications were good, Ballmer was blunt: "No, I don't."'

He's right, you know.

Ballmer: "[Microsoft's online unit] are 3 year olds playing basketball with 12-year olds!"

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