Read and take to heart Lawrence D'Oliveiro's comment above. He couldn't ask for a better example of his comment's point than the one you posted right below it.

"..to which Ballmer made a rather discriminatory claim that while Mossberg might pay, "80 million Chinese people won't this year, if they paid then you wouldn't have to."

Comments like this, m$ business practices, and closedsource model are why I'm glad I switched to Linux over ten years ago. I'm happy to see people pirating m$ to some degree.. less money for ballmer. ;)

I’m really disappointed at the poor quality of comments here. Some people need to practise basic skills, like 1) reading comprehension of the actual item you’re going to be commenting on, 2) the ability to string words into coherent sentences to express a thought, and 3) having a thought that’s worth expressing in the first place.

Miss leading title, but wonderful article because I learned in a humous way about the direction MS is taking

But I think he kept a tight rein on the natural urge to heap scorn on M$'s bullying oligarch.

Lot of people apparently come here just to do literary criticism, so evidently The Inquirer has a good reputation. But I suspect that you aren't widely read, Brian, because you seem to regard this as a "news" site...

The actual transcript of the interview would be better than an article like this. There's no value-added.

This article is perhaps the most poorly written news article I have ever read.