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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4-30-2008 @ 8:32AM
ron said...
TUAW, How come you are always 48h late...? Seriously, you are even slower than the printed magazines.
Step It Up!
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4-30-2008 @ 8:42AM
Mitch said...
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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4-30-2008 @ 8:50AM
orntwo said...
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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4-30-2008 @ 8:59AM
Marc Mitchell said...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH :) BRILLIANT
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4-30-2008 @ 9:01AM
danbass said...
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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4-30-2008 @ 9:02AM
Keny Whitright said...
Is there a spelling error on the slide?
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4-30-2008 @ 9:03AM
Gurku said...
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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4-30-2008 @ 9:09AM
ron said...
They don't!
4-30-2008 @ 9:04AM
Kryptinite said...
Ouch....
On an unrelated note: Who cares if he did his presentation on a Mac?
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4-30-2008 @ 9:06AM
brusselsaway said...
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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4-30-2008 @ 9:07AM
VaniPod said...
Not new at all...
http://www.aidemac.fr/news/779-le-macbook-pro-de-balmer
But funny anyway :-)
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4-30-2008 @ 9:13AM
Stefan said...
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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4-30-2008 @ 9:17AM
Mauro Mello Jr. said...
AARrgh - a typo in the opening slide of his grand presentation: "Future Graduated"? Or should it be "Future Graduates"?
Ouch!
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4-30-2008 @ 9:18AM
Mat said...
You can see why some people think apple users are smug jerks based on articles like this.
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4-30-2008 @ 9:24AM
Eros said...
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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4-30-2008 @ 9:40AM
Frank Furter said...
Wow - who would think there would be Apple fanboys on, uh, THE UNOFFICIAL APPLE WEBLOG. Go figure.
4-30-2008 @ 9:25AM
krye said...
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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4-30-2008 @ 9:46AM
MeatyPi said...
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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4-30-2008 @ 9:56AM
wilwayco said...
Boo. Where's the digg down button? :P
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4-30-2008 @ 9:57AM
David said...
Less fanboy. More content.
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