Filed under: Cult of Mac, Macbook Pro
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.
![TUAW [Cafepress]](http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.tuaw.com/media/tuaw-cafepress-promo.png)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
ron said 8:32AM on 4-30-2008
TUAW, How come you are always 48h late...? Seriously, you are even slower than the printed magazines.
Step It Up!
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Mitch said 8:42AM on 4-30-2008
I've been to conferences where there are macs and windows machines side by side on the podium and many different people use them. Just because there's a mac on the podium does not mean that the presentation is being run from that machine. Bad assumption on this one.
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orntwo said 8:50AM on 4-30-2008
I was on a plane to Asia with a Microsoft Exec, who taught me a few boot camp tricks when he saw my MacBook. He had a Pro as well, when I asked about this, he said they were now quite common as laptops at Microsoft, because they are simply better hardware.
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Marc Mitchell said 8:59AM on 4-30-2008
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH :) BRILLIANT
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danbass said 9:01AM on 4-30-2008
If you check the flickr comments, the laptop was left over from the previous 2 presentations, and Ballmer was using an automated slide system NOT off the MacBook Pro. Confirmed by at least 2 people from the conference.
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Keny Whitright said 9:02AM on 4-30-2008
Is there a spelling error on the slide?
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Gurku said 9:03AM on 4-30-2008
the laptop Is from the guy who was giving a presentation before ballmer... Didn't you read the interwebs the las 48 h?
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ron said 9:09AM on 4-30-2008
They don't!
Kryptinite said 9:04AM on 4-30-2008
Ouch....
On an unrelated note: Who cares if he did his presentation on a Mac?
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brusselsaway said 9:06AM on 4-30-2008
Ballmer didn't use the Macs - in fact he didn't use any computer for his presentation. The MBPs were already on stage.
Amusing pics though.
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VaniPod said 9:07AM on 4-30-2008
Not new at all...
http://www.aidemac.fr/news/779-le-macbook-pro-de-balmer
But funny anyway :-)
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Stefan said 9:13AM on 4-30-2008
By stating "...proving once again that the best Windows machine money can buy is a Mac" you implicitly are saying that what Steve Ballmer says or does is proof that it is the best thing out there...
Does that mean that because he runs Windows, it is the best OS that money can buy? ;)
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Mauro Mello Jr. said 9:17AM on 4-30-2008
AARrgh - a typo in the opening slide of his grand presentation: "Future Graduated"? Or should it be "Future Graduates"?
Ouch!
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Mat said 9:18AM on 4-30-2008
You can see why some people think apple users are smug jerks based on articles like this.
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Eros said 9:24AM on 4-30-2008
LOL. 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...
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Frank Furter said 9:40AM on 4-30-2008
Wow - who would think there would be Apple fanboys on, uh, THE UNOFFICIAL APPLE WEBLOG. Go figure.
krye said 9:25AM on 4-30-2008
It's not the like the Mac is even his. Do you think for a second he got the powerpoint presentation up and running? They have people to do that. His job is to just walk up on stage and make a fool of himself. I doubt he even knows how to turn on a computer.
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MeatyPi said 9:46AM on 4-30-2008
I 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?
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wilwayco said 9:56AM on 4-30-2008
Boo. Where's the digg down button? :P
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David said 9:57AM on 4-30-2008
Less fanboy. More content.
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