Steve Ballmer must be on crack. Or something. In a fascinating interview with the Financial Times, Ballmer has the cheek to call Google a one-trick pony (this from the company that has only managed two break-out successes so far), can’t seem to come to grips with the fact that he hasn’t budged his stock price in eight years, and takes solace in the fact that the company only has “one way to go, and it’s up, baby, up, up, up, up, up!”

Please pass the vial, Ballmer.

One place where he comes down to earth is in his admission that he hasn’t figured out how to compete with open source:

I’ve got to tell you, in every - other than the battle with Open Source, each other competitor, I love being able to come into a room and saying we’re superior and we’re cheaper. We’re going to try to say we’re better and we’re cheaper basically.

In the case of Linux vs. Windows, anyway, Microsoft is neither better nor cheaper. In its other products, too, it’s losing that argument.

But it’s really in deriding Google that Ballmer looks ridiculous. When asked about Google, he opines:

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Positive Spin Media’s media search tool, Pandora (formerly NetScrape) has been bumped up to version 2.3. The new version primarily repairs some issues that Pandora had with reading some pages with non-English languages or encoding. The update is free to registered users, and you can download the update this day.

If you haven’t seen Pandora before, it’s worth a look. Pandora uses a plug-in architecture to wander the large image search engines (i.e., Google and Flickr) or your hard drive, and supports finding and fetching any type of media — not just images. Once you’ve found the media, Pandora provides simple slide show creation so you can show it off. I like the fact that you can start off multiple searches simultaneously and have them run

The Pandora demo is limited to 50 image viewings, and if you love it you can purchase it for $29.95.

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You just can’t please everyone. I read this post from an irate Joomla! user who is incensed that he has to pay - drum roll, please! - $25 to $300 for a Joomla! theme. Let’s be clear: This theme is not required to use the Joomla! web content …

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Which is the world’s fastest browser? According to Zimbra, Safari runs fastest, though it didn’t beat out Firefox by much. Both Safari and Firefox were roughly twice as fast as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7.

Of course, Zimbra was testing for how these browsers perform with the Zimbra …

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I mentioned earlier this week that SaaS may well offer open-source vendors a way to write lots of free software, and still get paid. John Roberts, CEO of SugarCRM, underscores this possibility by noting that 30 percent of SugarCRM deployments are hosted, rather than on premise, as The VAR Guy …

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