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Quoted: The commercial of Windows 1.0. Steve Ballmer telling about all the features of the OS

Quoted: The list could go on and on and on and on…. but I’ll stop there. Certainly Google hasn’t dominated every market it has taken on, but to say that Google runs second to Microsoft online in everything but search says a lot more about Steve Ballmer than it being a true reflection on today’s online marketplace. Perhaps there’s a reason Ballmer photographs so badly

Controversial...

Quoted: As most successful companies evolve and expand they develop some nostalgic sense of romance around their freewheeling early days. An exchange here at D with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer suggests that Microsoft is atypical in this regard.
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Ballmer: “Paul was good. Bill was good. Four out of 30 were good — and believe me, the rest are gone.”

Scoble on the Ballmer interview in BusinessWeek...

Quoted: Don’t miss Ballmer’s question here: “[You’ve got to ask] could Google do whatever it is they’re hoping to buy without paying $1.6 billion?” That’s Microsoft’s engineering culture coming through. Clearly Ballmer believes he can build YouTube for less.
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The thing is, YouTube is two SEPARATE things: 1) the technology. 2) the community/brand.
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But duplicate the community and brand (er, those eyeballs, as Ballmer calls them) is far far far more difficult. The fact that he insists on calling me a set of eyeballs tells me Ballmer doesn’t understand the trend here. Why we love YouTube isn’t cause we can watch other people’s videos. It’s cause we can upload our own lame videos!!!