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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Vows to "Kill" Google
Well, this one left me virtually speechless. Listen to your mother when she tells you to mind your manners, and that anything you say can and probably will end up haunting you. A document from the court case between Microsoft and Google over Google's hiring of Kai-Fu Lee has surfaced on John Battelle's Searchblog showing a what appears to be a partial transcript, or at least a recollection of a conversation between another engineer, Mark Lucovsky, and Steve Ballmer regarding Lucovsky's intention to leave Microsoft in November of 2004. According to the document Ballmer specifically wanted to know if it was Google that Lucovsky was leaving to go to, and when he found out that it was, Ballmer apparently lost his cool.
For a more complete transcript, check out the report at Searchblog, but be warned: the content of these court documents is not for the faint of heart. Steve Ballmer apparently knows some very bad words, and how to use them repeatedly. You have been warned.
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Samuel Lago said 5:47PM on 11-05-2005
This man really personifies the Japanese view of an American; a tall lug, scrapping his knuckles, loud, rude, big, and stupid.
I admit that when faced with an opponent it is useful to be able to cunjour such ill-feeling purely for competition reasons. However, it is ebtirely another to make them so blatant.
When Microsoft shows are are effectively orchestrated as the APple ones then I will sign up to this, as of now and the forseable future it still comes across as hot air.
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Leo said 9:17AM on 9-03-2005
I think we all need to bury microsoft. This is getting ridiculous. Boycot Microsoft!!! Those monopolistic bastards....
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virus2566 said 2:45PM on 9-03-2005
people are, its called Linux :P
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J.T. Mill said 11:45PM on 9-03-2005
This was just about the funniest example of how stupid Microsoft is and how they always expect to get there way.
How many Microsoft Executives does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None- Bill Gates will just make darkness(tm) the new industry standard.
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Zelidar said 3:01AM on 9-04-2005
3# Funny but I'd replace Bill Gates with Steve Ballmer. Gates needed someone like Balmer to do the dirty work. Gates cannot be such a bad guy, just look how he is spending his money.
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