In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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wrote
on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:39:59 +0100
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> Get set for another 'monkey dance'. Yes, that's the title of the article:
>
> Microsoft's Ballmer yelling 'Vista!' till he's hoarse
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Q That wasn't quite loud enough. Do you have any plans to yell
> | Vista, Vista, Vista until you turn hoarse?
> |
> | A I'd be happy to at any time. But for you, special. Vista!
> | Vista! Vista! Baby!
> `----
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> http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/15852441.htm?source=rss&channel=mercurynews_technology
>
> The guy's insane! I cannot understand why anybody is willing to buy software
> from that man.
Because it works for them. (Unfortunately.) In any event, they're not
buying it from Ballmer; they're buying it from Microsoft -- assuming
they're explicitly buying it at all, as opposed to merely accepting what
the OEMs are required to push at them.
Hopefully we'll all wake up and think "Hey, there are better
alternatives out there than that bug-riddled highly vulnerable
piece of [censored] Microsoft Windows". But it's not at all
clear right now.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bylDojTWfyU (Yelping and jumping)
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftsByyqazF0&mode=related&search= (Developers)
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTkA9L2J2gY (Advertisers)
>
> Public Persona
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Ballmer's tendency to be loudly and enthusiastically express himself
> | is well known. A famous 1991 incident left his vocal cords requiring
> | surgical repair after he screamed "Windows, Windows, Windows"
> | continuously during a meeting in Japan.[1] With the advent of
> | Internet video, such incidents have become increasingly infamous.
> `----
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballmer#Public_Persona
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