Steve Ballmer Going Crazy on Stage

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Recommends teh_klev · 2014-07 · on “Atom: Hello Windows”

I thought the "web developer love" reprise was done in very good humour: [this video] There's a rough and ready likeableness about Steve Ballmer's personality I've always kinda liked.

Cites lproven · 2020-01 · on “BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X”

There is another big reason that Apple didn't buy Be and was right not to -- and I say that although BeOS is my favourite x86 OS ever. Dev tools. Remember Steve Ballmer's "Developers! Developers! Developers!" dance? [this video] He was right. Without developers for a new OS, you are dead in the water. Which is my MS has fought so hard to keep compatibility. Apple had to switch OS. That meant it had to persuade all its devs to switch OS. That meant it had to offer the devs something very special, and that something was NeXTstep and Interface Builder. NeXT's dev tools were the best in the software business and _that_ offered trad Mac devs a good enough reason to come across. Be had nothing like tha

Cites ChuckNorris89 · 2021-12 · on “The FAANG Market Is Fading”

>Ballmer just wanted to sell Windows and Office like products to big enterprises. Yes, but actually, NO . I know it's fashionable to bash Ballmer for being the stereotypical image of the late '90's corporate villain, pulled right out of Office Space[1], but he was also the one who got the ball rolling on what we today know as Azure and saved the Xbox division during the red ring of death and other major issues that plagued the Xbox 360 and cost Microsoft billions. If he only cared about the enterprise stuff, he would have sold the Xbox division or let it sink at the first sign of losses, but instead he propped it up despite the massive losses. IMHO, he should get some kudos for that as Xbox