Steve Ballmer uses a Mac for presentations
You may remember Steve Ballmer (CEO of some other company) criticizing the iPod and iPhone on several occasions. Something that he definitely cannot criticize is the Mac, mostly because he was seen I guess Microsoft is staring to "Think Different," eh?
Update: As noted by several Flickr commenters, Ballmer didn't actually use the Mac to present; all that was displayed was his title slide, most likely driven by backstage gear, and presumably the MacBook Pro was left at the podium by the conference organizers or a previous presenter. Still a pleasant thought to imagine him slaving away over his PowerPoint (or Keynote!) presentation on the MBP, but it doesn't look like that's how it went.
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Mac on Podium, Proven Fake! Here's the Real Thing!
The scandalous allegations by a couple of fakers that I used a Mac to run a presentation has been proven to be completely bogus! Here is the photographic evidence:My personal PI, Jack Stone, uncovered an unretouched copy from one of the culprit's personal computers (they have macs).
PI Jack Stone gained entry into Paint.it.Black's trailer in the Sahddy Grove trailer park by posing as an exterminator, his final report says:
"I pretended to be giving away my exterminatory services as a public service for the day, PIB was overjoyed! I convinced him he had to leave for a few hours while I fumigated the 12'x24'. The domicile was alive with vermin of all types, but, my objective was his computer. Per Mr. Ballmer's instructions, I cloned the entire drive and upon completion reformatted the original and installed Vista Home Edition via bootcamp. On my departure, I sprayed two full cans of Raid Yard Guard throughout the place, it didn't seem to do much good."
The geeks here at MS retrieved this original photo from the clone.
The resulting ORIGINAL photos clearly show I was actually using my Sony Viao!
CASE CLOSED! CONTROVERSY OVER! URBAN LEGEND DISPELLED!
Paint.it.black and Chubbystar, you both may yet be hearing from our lawyers soon! (That's if they don't call the local police department about some of the other more "disturbing" photographs we found first!)
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
It wouldn't surprise me. Microsoft is a Software company, they make the same money, if not more, to have Windows loaded on a Mac. Either way, it has been proven that MacBooks are very decent Windows machines. I would not be surprised to see many Macs around the MS campus, sure, its ironic. But is is basically a nice looking PC when it has Windows on it. My old College bought an entire lab of iMacs that only boot Windows. There is really no argument. However, it is unfortunate that just seeing a Mac no longer means, in my eyes, that they are a "Mac User"
April 30 2008 at 12:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWho cares what he was using? I just love that picture of ballmer you guys used for the story.
April 30 2008 at 11:38 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWasn't this over already ?!
TUAW: All aboard the failboat!
April 30 2008 at 9:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe issues with blogs is the "First to Post" mentality. Being that TUAW post stories a little bit later than other tech blog sites perhaps they should take a more traditional journalistic mentality and take these blog stories, fact check them then post a story... with actual facts :)
TUAW talks to Ballmer who confirms that the Mac was left by a previous presenter.
Less fanboy. More content.
April 30 2008 at 9:57 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyBoo. Where's the digg down button? :P
April 30 2008 at 9:55 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI think we have all established the MBP is not his, so can we please take this post down, or at least alter the misleading and fallacious title?
April 30 2008 at 9:46 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyLOL. Desperate apple fanboy trying to paint everything as apple land. It wasn't his. It was the previous presenters according to this picture: http://flickr.com/photos/choubistar/2439499170/
this thread is fail...
Wow - who would think there would be Apple fanboys on, uh, THE UNOFFICIAL APPLE WEBLOG. Go figure.
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