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Steve Ballmer has commented on the success of the iPad, calling it an "interesting product", only to then defend his company’s own record by stating they’d been "selling Windows on tablet computers for years".

He also said the iPhone had “no chance” of gaining significant market share in 2007. He bought and ruined Danger (should have stuck with NetBSD). He trumpeted the Courier as a tangible competitor even though it never got past the concept video stage. He abandoned the Kin project almost as soon as the phones went to market. The Zune had a "squirt" feature and came in brown!

Forgive me if I don’t take his words very seriously, especially in the mobile space.

Photo of Steve Ballmer by Martin Olsson on Wikimedia Commons.

Here’s a little narrative story thing that actually happened, as opposed to all those other narrative story things that kinda happened, but didn’t. Can’t think of any off the top of my head, but they probably have to do with grilled cheese sandwiches, somehow.

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Checking out ZDNet I was redirected to an article by Ed Bott who dismisses many of the woes with Windows as being the fault of its antitrust lawsuit. Yeah, damn those big government people trying to break up an unethical corporation!

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On Tuesday I announced on Twitter that I’d booked a seat for Steve Ballmer’s talk at Marina Sands celebrating 20 years of Microsoft in Singapore. At least, I thought I did until I got this message:

Due to overwhelming demand, we are unable to offer you a seat (-6).

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David Olsen on Twitter said something this morning which I think is endemic of the reason why Microsoft is being crushed in the consumer space and can’t understand why. For once, a more serious post here on Rubénerd.com!

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Whenever I use software installation wizards I always choose the custom option to make sure it’s not installing anything I don’t want (package managers with custom flags are so much easier)! It was a good thing too, because when I installed Flip4Mac this afternoon it was going to install Microsoft Silverlight. Say what?

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ZDNet Australia is reporting on yet another bug caused by terminals running anti-virus software on a consumer level operating system instead of using a more efficient and secure embedded system that wouldn’t need such code running in the first place.

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Back in the day I used the release candidate of Windows 7, but now that I finally have a student copy I’ve been using it in a production setting. These are some of my observations.

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A quick followup to my post from yesterday, turns out it is possible to do a clean install of Windows 7 by using a Windows 2000 disc for the upgrade.

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This is an epic tale of tragedy and frustration, starring Ruben Schade as Ruben Schade and a newly student licenced copy of Windows 7 Professional as The Windows That Wouldn’t Install. There will be no intermission, despite its length warranting one.

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