Ballmer the Bomber

Steve Ballmer. Microsoft's CEO and personal cheerleader. This guy is borderline nutso. If you've ever seen him go crazy, it is an event to behold. One such moment is at a past Microsoft Developers Conference. As he is cheering the crowd into a frenzy, he bounds up and down, runs around, huffin' and a hollerin' like a darn fool. Someone somewhere with good manipulation skills and an eye for comedy put together a montage of the Ballmerman and put it on the web. This is one of those classic pieces of comic gold only found in the wonderful world of the wide web. Hum along to the music as Bomber man chants "Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers!" and works his deodorant into overdrive. I highly recommend seeking out this small piece of comic brilliance. For those of you with high speed internet access, here is a link to the video!

This man also doesn't seem to understand that the company he works for is not all it's cracked up to be. He refuses to realize that Apple undoubtedly has the upper hand in the world of digital home entertainment. The simple fact that Microsoft cannot even begin to compare to Apple's free iLife software(when you purchase a new Mac, of course), proves his naïvete. And speaking of digital home entertainment, there is no better example of perfection than the iPod. Sure, it has its downsides, but it is the single most successful home computer entertainment device in history. It started a revolution. All other companies are running to catch up, jumping on the bandwagon and struggling to stay on. Here's his take on the state of the industry-
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On the subject of iPods, he also seems to think that most music on iPods is stolen to begin with. Being the owner of an iPod, I alone can attest to the origin of the >2300 songs contained therein. I would say confidently that 99% of ALL the music on there was purchased by me. Maybe 5% of that 99% was purchased from iTunes, Apple's online music store, and the other 1% was acquired by alternate means: borrowed cds from friends, found online, or otherwise. So what if the majority of my music doesn't have Digital Rights Management - the technology to prevent piracy? I would venture to say that the majority of all music encoded on Windows PCs is exactly the same. He has no other way to debunk Apple's huge success with its best invention: the iPod. Read along with Steve as he tries to cover up Microsoft's lacking popularity in the world of digital music-
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