Steve Ballmer Wants To Keep You In His Universe Of Hell
Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer was in San Francisco today attending the CTIA conference because apparently the Windows maker is very keen on this whole new mobile phone thing. And by that I mean they watched Apple steal a huge chunk of a market they had no interest in, which then of course created interest. (Please tell me we’ll see poop-colored Zune phones very soon, because will make me laugh and laugh.)
Normally a wild and animated screaming monkey man, Ballmer managed to keep himself composed for a few minutes to give an interview with CNET News. You can read it all here, but I’ll jump right to the money quote:
Q: You talked at CTIA about Apple not being an enterprise company and IBM not being a consumer company. Some might say it’s hard to do both. Why is it important for Microsoft (to do both)?
Ballmer: I think what most consumers want, what most end users want, actually, is things that do help them bridge the gap. I don’t really think most people want to live in a world where there’s parallel kind of universes–my universe at home, my universe at work. It’s simpler if I can learn one thing. I actually think that’s a feature, an advantage. Certainly you see that in the PC. Windows PCs, they’re quite popular compared to anything else precisely because they do span the kind of work/home gap.
That is some brilliant logic there Ballmerz. After spending all day at the office using PCs loaded with Microsoft bloatware, having a PC at home with the same craptastic OS is exactly what I want. Rather than getting to put the work day behind me and relax at home, I want every experience surfing the Internet to remind me what my workday will be like tomorrow.
But remember folks, all that crashing and having to restart, that’s a “feature, an advantage.”
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