[Am-info] NewsSource, October 30 2000 / 5 of 8 / BALLMER IS A MORON

[Paul Rickard]

      *Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, whose comments last year sent stocks 
spiraling [see Sep. 27 '99 - [link removed] ], did it again on October 23 
when he described several of Microsoft's competitors as being 
"dramatically overvalued." Ballmer, not the sharpest stick in Microsoft's 
pile, told a large crowd in Milan Italy to expect more market corrections 
in a year that has seen little more than a correction of the gains from 
years past. He then went on to express a desire that the AOL TimeWarner 
merger be approved by the government, because that would make AOL a media 
company instead of the "global supplier of core Internet services" 
Microsoft wants to become. [For the record, we don't understand that one 
either.] Stock traders rewarded Steve's insight by dropping Microsoft 
stock by more than 3 points. -|

            ALSO SEE:
      http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,39634,00.html
      http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/14187.html



======== Paul Rickard, Editor of The Microsoft Boycott Campaign =======
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   would be nervous if my system was built on their technology, too."
       -Sun Microsystems President Scott McNealy