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.