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:The Register: Microsoft's Ballmer Tells Lurvely Partners to Stick It to IBM
The Register: Microsoft's Ballmer Tells Lurvely Partners to Stick It to IBM
Jul 11, 2005, 17 :30 UTC (15 Talkback[s]) (6511 reads)

(Other stories by Gavin Clarke)

"Steve Ballmer has lambasted IBM, Linux and SAP while exhorting thousands of partners to bet their next 10 years on Windows and Microsoft services.

"A pumped-up and sweating Ballmer informed Microsoft's Worldwide partner conference on Sunday morning that IBM is a spent competitive challenge that is pushing sub-par software, while he worked the crowd's concerns over IP and patents by talking of so-called 'rumors' that Linux violates more than 200 patents..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
I was wondering when Ballmer was going t ...   Do a little dance, make a little love.   
stumbles
Jul 11, 2005, 17:41:35
 
"A pumped-up and sweating Ballmer".... W ...   Sweating ?   
da
Jul 11, 2005, 18:07:29
 
A pumped-up and sweating Ballmer informe ...   Correction   
Don Brock
Jul 11, 2005, 18:22:43
 
I just finshed installing SuSE 9.3 Profe ...   Oh yeah..where was I..   
Eric Brown
Jul 11, 2005, 19:24:34
 
Ballmer is more and more coming off as d ...   Loonie Tunes   
Kevin Hudson
Jul 11, 2005, 19:41:37
 
As a former IBM employee, I can assure y ...   Big Talk   
Glen
Jul 11, 2005, 19:54:16
 
The press articles these guys back, "ind ...   Snake-oil Salesman or soapbox preacher   
Barney
Jul 11, 2005, 20:02:26
 
Or else his shareholders would be all ov ...   Ballmer would be a liar if he had proof and didn&#   
David D. Huff Jr.
Jul 11, 2005, 21:13:02
 
"Ballmer added that if Microsoft didn&#3 ...   Monopoly   
Don Whitbeck
Jul 11, 2005, 22:00:47
 
if it were not so pathetic.  So IBM is n ...   it would be funny   
michael
Jul 11, 2005, 23:14:33
 
Would you buy a used car from this man i ...   Ballmer ought be a used car salesman   
Robert C. Miller
Jul 12, 2005, 03:04:39
 
Once again we have noise erupting from t ...   Fat sweaty man   
Joe User
Jul 12, 2005, 05:42:36
 
"We see MBS as a horizontal platform whi ...   Favorite Quote   
Jim Parker
Jul 12, 2005, 12:23:06
 
> "We see MBS as a horizontal platform w ...   Re: Favorite Quote   
jp
Jul 12, 2005, 14:25:01
 
This may seem odd to most here at Linux  ...   Odd observation...   
Nicholas Donovan
Jul 12, 2005, 14:31:59
 
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