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, every 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 state we’re better and we’re cheaper basically.
In the case of Linux vs. Windows, anyway, Microsoft is neither superior 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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