Vista? Crap
Xbox360? Crap
IIS? Crap
Internet Explorer? Crap

The way I see it, that only leaves Visual Studio and Office for them to mess up..

Seriously, does anyone buy any of those products? MacOSX/PS3/Apache/Opera are all considerably better.

Ballmer shows us once again that he can be clinically diagnosed as a psychopath.

@thekryz

Actually the quotation is Hilter's not Goebels', in Mein Kampf, "The broad mass of a nation...will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one."


Too bad the Iraqi Information Ministry job is no longer available.

Hang on, did Ballmer just say that Microsoft was going to file for Chapter 11 ?
Because MS cannot take another success like Vista, that's for sure.

Although, perhaps they might occassionally be open to interpretation.

Fact is that none of the majors sell XP any more, and next year no white box builders will sell it -- it’s 100% VISTA baby. Shipping a VISTA machine with XP-Media in the box (for ease of downgrade) is common-place and acceptable to MS, but it still counts as a VISTA sale... and MS is quite amenable to the downgrading of Vista-Business and Vista-Ultimate, but a VISTA sale is still a VISTA sale, downgraded or not.

"On January 31, 2009, Microsoft will discontinue selling Windows XP through our Microsoft Authorized OEM Distribution channel. For major branded PC manufacturers, this end of sales date for Windows XP was June 30, 2008.

"Get the details on the end of sales process and find out how it presents a great opportunity to drive upgrades to Windows Vista. With higher levels of reliability, security, performance, administration, and support offered by Windows Vista with Service Pack 1, you can make a strong business case for Windows Vista upgrades. Help your customers understand everything Windows Vista can do for them with these marketing downloads. Also become familiar with the Downgrade Rights options available to your customers.

"While it may be true that Microsoft has sold 180 million copies of Vista, there are more PCs than ever out there which do not have the OS on board."

Eh? More than ever? Do you mean that there are more pcs without vista now than there were before it came out?

All M$ ever done was copy others creativity while pairing it down by stripping the options and forcing people packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes pain upstairs that makes ITs eyeballs ache. Relying on its proliferation policies to hold sway. And no one dared disturb the sound of silence for every single meeting with this so called superior is a humiliating kick in the crotch. The hordes of the profits are bitten on the office walls and tenement outlook halls. We have to shout above the din of our Rice Crispies...
If I had just one redmond cent for every time I've had to reset a file dialogue to details or sorted. Countless forums on how to fix this or that in M$ ware, and no answers, I swear. He doesn't think to wonder why? I do nae know: Why the Silence Like a Can Sir -- goes. Hum a few bars, and fake it. Ow, ow, ow, ow...

Ballmer is starting to become a corporate embarrassment. 

For the sake of Microsoft's future, give him his 10 billion dollar handshake and get rid.

Believe me it will be worth every cent in the long run...

And have you seen Office with MS Antivirus is £60/year subscription in PC World?

Please try OpenOffice.org, it's free and looks like MS Office. Please try it and spread the word.

I would dearly love to know where 180 million comes from. Is that the total number of PCs sold in the last 18 months? Does the figure include all those XP "down-grade" licenses (which is must do lets be honest!)

If it is total sales, how can he imply that 180 million is 180 million using Vista?

It would be very interesting to see if there are indeed 180 million Vista licences sold, how many are actually in use.

Oh, get over it you mac fandobois. Vista is a good OS. Before Vista, your lot was also complaining about how secure (unsecure) XP is. You are doing the same with Vista. Why don't you stop whining and admit to yourself that the PC is way powerful than a dumb mac and Vista is a step in the right direction for MS. What you need to do is learn how to use technology, but I guess you can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Ciao!

If that MIcrosoft thing doesn't work out, he could have a future at AMD. I love how them come in and try to sell me that "They are the fastest desktop chips on the planet. We beat Intel in every category." And they don't even crack a smile. I don't play poker with them, ever.

I 100% agree with what he said.
I am a 100% believer that MS has soild more copies of Vista or is well on the way than an other windows OS.

That is becuase PC's ship with the damb OS.
And look at how much more PC's are being shipped over the years. The market keeps growing and growing.

Even though I on the same day of purchase upgraded my OS on my laptop (came with Vista) to XP. thats a Vista sale in MS's eyes. 

Sure they might hvae sold more copies in the same time period than any other MS OS before, but thats not hard to do when you have almost all OEM sales now is it?

Notice how they dont comment on how many PC's keep Vista

Keep thinking that Steve.

That sound you hear isn't Microsoft sales. It's Macbooks and Macbook Pro's flying off the shelves. I work at a place that buys from Dell in bulk and can confirm that NONE of the PC's anyone here has purchased have Vista on them. They all come with XP installed but a Vista disc and license. Name a business you know of that is using Vista. I can't. Who can? Dream on Steve. You had better top Vista with Windows 7 in some way, or my next PC will be a Macbook.

...to shift 18m copies of something when you have OEMs by the bollix and you EOL the OEM version of your previous OS, regardless of overwhelming feedback from your customers that they wanted to keep the older OS as a tier 1 BoM item because the replacement sucks.

TLA soup aside, the penguin shock troops are nowhere near Redmond and they will ALL DIE LIKE THE INFIDELS THEY ARE!

Well, OK, GNU/Linux is pants and really is no threat whatsoever to Windows, but only because there's more versions, layouts, package manager formats and hierarchies of the damn thing than there are strands of vermicelli on a truffle. Perhaps if they standardised it a bit (LSB sucks too) and dropped the "Free as in freedom, and you're NOT free to disagree" crap they might awake a bit of developer interest from the third-party apps folks. As it stands, it's Vista or sweet FA for OEMs, and this is how Steve "Fscking kill" Ballmer managed to shift umpteen million copies of Vasti: Not because it's better but simply because the biggest volume customers had no bloody choice.

Everyone Knows Ultimate is Best, Even Most Seemingly Enraged are Vista oogliers. Think Microsoft went too far in supplying Cut Back, even Cheap Starter editions of Vista ,instead of forcing Hardware issues, Now being:perplexed ongoing Swine.

Ultimate works Media Like NO Other & is Much More Likely to complete any specific task than any previous operating system.

Computing will go from Home Basement Hang in there Baby Unit to Full fledged Dept Store item as this evolves to NT6 Hardware....

Give Us Instructions & Microsoft will Write for them, O' Hardware Gods.
drashek

Credibility? What Credibility?

That group of like 50 people all from Microsoft and 1 buisness also microsoft.

Not since Windows ME has Microsoft had such a successful product!

Or Pedant's Corner.

Sorry but he did not affirm that he was not involved in the decision-making. He said he was not "uniquely" involved. The difference between the two is, to a lawyer, comparable in impact to the geophysical effect of the Grand Canyon.

Tangential comment on collective nouns for professionals :

A quibble of lawyers.
A qualification of accountants.

Cheers


"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." --Goebbels