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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: solo on 3 September 2005, 15:56

Title: Ballmer vows to "fucking kill Google"
Post by: solo on 3 September 2005, 15:56
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/microsoft-ceo-im-going-to-fing-kill-google/2005/09/03/1125302772214.html

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Ballmer's threat last November was recounted in a sworn declaration by a former Microsoft engineer, Mark Lucovsky, who said he met with Microsoft's chief executive 10 months ago to discuss his decision to leave the company after six years.

After learning Lucovsky was leaving to take a job at Google, Ballmer picked up his chair and hurled it across his office, according to the declaration.
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Ballmer then pejoratively berated Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Lucovsky recalled.

"I'm going to f---ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again," the declaration quotes Ballmer. "I'm going to f---ing kill Google."


I could've figured he was the angry one at M$, he's probably bending Billy over every which way but he doesn't care cuz it makes him rich.

A question remains when looking at Ballmer's behavior toward competitive companies. Was it Bill Gates who made Microsoft evil, or did he just make it suck and Ballmer made it evil. The latter is my take.
Title: Re: Ballmer vows to "fucking kill Google"
Post by: Lead Head on 3 September 2005, 16:29
He has big anger management problems, I think he might have made microsoft evil to. He probably can kill google but the fact the he through his chair acroos the room
Title: Re: Ballmer vows to "fucking kill Google"
Post by: Jack2000 on 3 September 2005, 16:57
Microsoft ... hm...
do you remember when you type in google "Go to hell"
and then the first page was Micro soft :)

i say maby google is wright microsoft is evil+sold theyr souls to the devil(:D)
Title: Re: Ballmer vows to "fucking kill Google"
Post by: DavidB on 3 September 2005, 17:51
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Was it Bill Gates who made Microsoft evil, or did he just make it suck and Ballmer made it evil. The latter is my take.

Oh, please, Bill Gates is obviously evil, a trait he apparently inherited from the corporate whore he calls a father. Bill Balmer is hardly the only scum he's recruited.
Title: Re: Ballmer vows to "fucking kill Google"
Post by: MarathoN on 4 September 2005, 02:02
Bill Balmer, I like that one ;)
Title: Re: Ballmer vows to "fucking kill Google"
Post by: Kintaro on 4 September 2005, 04:25
Haha, I would laugh if the Google CEO went missing and Ballmer got blamed with his murder.
Title: Re: Ballmer vows to "fucking kill Google"
Post by: Jenda on 4 September 2005, 10:38
Isn't it Steve or something?
Title: Re: Ballmer vows to "fucking kill Google"
Post by: Kintaro on 5 September 2005, 04:10
Steve Ballmer, yeah
Title: Re: Ballmer vows to "fucking kill Google"
Post by: Kintaro on 5 September 2005, 04:15
(http://illhostit.com/files/4808661119994242/430-ballmer1,0.jpg)

HOLY SEXY
Title: Re: Ballmer vows to "fucking kill Google"
Post by: Jack2000 on 5 September 2005, 05:42
Was not western myth that bold man are "sexy"
well i guess he shaved his hair jsut to look a litle bit
not so ugly :)
i do not dere try and picture him with hair :P
Title: Re: Ballmer vows to "fucking kill Google"
Post by: mobrien_12 on 5 September 2005, 05:47
From a post at Groklaw (http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050903222945965#comments)"

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Ballmer's temper is old news. From The Economist, April 1, 1999, "Bill's Bull-horn" http://www.econ omist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=195914 (subscription required), a 908-word essay with quotes like, "When Mr Ballmer gets excited, it
Title: Re: Ballmer vows to "fucking kill Google"
Post by: Jenda on 5 September 2005, 18:55
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"He regularly called up customers who had chosen competitors
Title: Re: Ballmer vows to "fucking kill Google"
Post by: Commander on 6 September 2005, 22:59
i think ballmer scared billy into giving him the job.. i mean NOONE can be stupid enough to give a fucker like ballmer ANY PR jobs.. not even the great gates.
Title: Re: Ballmer vows to "fucking kill Google"
Post by: jtpenrod on 21 September 2005, 07:04
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i think ballmer scared billy into giving him the job.. i mean NOONE can be stupid enough to give a fucker like ballmer ANY PR jobs.. not even the great gates.


Not really, it looks like a good move. That way, the two of them can play "Good Cop; Bad Cop". Ballmer also makes Gates look good.
Title: Re: Ballmer vows to "fucking kill Google"
Post by: Kintaro on 22 September 2005, 06:31
Quote from: jtpenrod
Not really, it looks like a good move. That way, the two of them can play "Good Cop; Bad Cop". Ballmer also makes Gates look good.


Good point. He does tend to make Gates look good. However lets not ignore the fact that he has also been highly sucsessful in getting companies to use Microsoft products.
Title: Re: Ballmer vows to "fucking kill Google"
Post by: piratePenguin on 22 September 2005, 20:11
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/22/microsoft_google/ (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/22/microsoft_google/)

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How Microsoft can 'kill' Google

Simple - just buy its customers

When Steve Ballmer yelled at a departing Microsoft employee that he would
Title: Re: Ballmer vows to "fucking kill Google"
Post by: Kintaro on 23 September 2005, 02:34
Problem is, Google is a household name. MSN search isn't.
Title: Re: Ballmer vows to "fucking kill Google"
Post by: worker201 on 23 September 2005, 05:04
Quote from: kintaro
Problem is, Google is a household name. MSN search isn't.


Excellent point.  MSN, to the best of my knowledge, has never appeared as an answer in the NYTimes crossword puzzle.  Google was an answer just this past Sunday.
Title: Re: Ballmer vows to "fucking kill Google"
Post by: Refalm on 23 September 2005, 17:00
Quote from: worker201
Excellent point.  MSN, to the best of my knowledge, has never appeared as an answer in the NYTimes crossword puzzle.  Google was an answer just this past Sunday.

MSN is a house hold name. Most people associate "MSN" with "MSN Messenger".
It's the same for at least 90% of all people.
Title: Re: Ballmer vows to "fucking kill Google"
Post by: worker201 on 24 September 2005, 05:17
A pretty decent percentage of people believe that Windows is the only desktop software, and that George W. Bush is a good president.  So I think we should forget about what most people think.