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The dreadful spectre of Ballmer's buns
Irony died at CES yesterday evening as Steve Ballmer set out his open source credentials with a metaphor that left me shivering in a dark mental place.
The call for open standards has been a recurring theme of CES 2009, and despite insisting that Windows still ruled the world of electronics Ballmer acknowledged the importance of allowing partners and developers access to code. Which is a start, I suppose. It was just the way he put it:
"The 'special sauce' of Windows was the realisation that there were so many innovative companies out there."
Putting aside the fact that it doesn't make any kind of sense, there's an association between the notion of sauce and the image of the bounding, howling, sweating Ballmer of video fame that is anything but special.
Thankfully, he left that metaphor to die of natural causes, sparing us the dreadful spectre of what Ballmer considered the buns and meat of Windows. Think I'll skip lunch. More on Ballmer's high-pitched CES speech here.
When I hear of people like Steve Bullmer making such daft statements, I always wonder how on earth he made it to such a high position.
But then I am reminded of the special needs children in my school who had very few social skills but were brilliant in some skills such as number memory.
posted-by habby | January 9, 2009 5:22 PM
Ballmer is an interesting character to say the least!
posted-by Warning dangerous spyware | January 16, 2009 7:08 AM