[NTLUG:Discuss] [DFWUUG:Discuss] Ballmer at full steam

[Preston Hagar]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Fred James <fredjame at fredjame.cnc.net> wrote:
> David Simmons wrote:
>>
>> Ok....I'll give him credit for learning a new word:
>>
>> cacophony  (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cacophony )
>>
>> but other than that - it seems like a lot of the same...lots of words, no
>> substance?
>>
>> -dave
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:20 AM, stuart yarus <syarus at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/07/30/steve-ballmer-on-the-ipad-the-transcript
>>>
>
> Well, let's see ... Steve Ballmer?  right?  I mean we are talking about
> salesman in chief, right?
> If it doesn't stink, it isn't feet
> Regards
> Fred James
>

I read through the article and the main thing I took away is that
Ballmer realizes that they need to compete with the iPad, he isn't
exactly sure how they will do it, but he does know that it will be
able to print.   The hilarious thing will be when they release some
Microsoft tablet some such an the printing "feature" has had to be
dropped (like WinFS, etc.).

I found out today that Apple's market cap is now larger than
Microsoft's.  I saw something the other day to the effect of "Google
is the new Apple, Apple is the new Microsoft, Microsoft is the new
IBM, and IBM is the new DEC".  or something like that.  Seems like
things might be going more and more that way.

Preston