Ballmer last night during an interview with Reid Hoffman:
Ballmer called the Android ecosystem “wild,” “uncontrolled” and susceptible to malware.
This coming from the man that’s in charge of the most virus- and malware-infected operating system in the world. Perhaps someone should have told Ballmer that the day before his comments, a teenager developed a prototype malware for Windows 8 that will be demonstrated later this month at the Malware Conference.
Drew Olanoff at TechCrunch did a great job of grabbing some other treasures from Ballmer too, like when Ballmer was asked about Windows and he said “Wow, it just works!”
The man is crazy.
There’s such a thing as a Malware Conference? Is it hosted on the Death Star?
Nah, the Black Hat and Defcon conferences have the Death Star staked out already.
He’s not batshit crazy. Android malware is up 580% in the last year. It’s more a case of the infamous pot calling the kettle black. There are over a million pieces of malware for Windows on the desktop.
What Ballmer ignores is that when you point a finger at someone else you have three of your own fingers pointing back at yourself.
“Uncontrolled.”
This from the guy who helped oversee the creation of the malware industry in the first place.
Pot/kettle was my tweet exactly. 🙂
WTF? Doesn’t MS have a board? Are they sleeping? This guy is beginning to look a lot like a RIM CEO.
I’m not up to speed on MS’s history. Was he ever not crazy? Was there some triggering event that sent him off the deep end?
Wild and uncontrollable.
From the man that gave us
I never tire of Steve going full-batshit on stage. Monkey-boy has given the world, many deep belly-laughs.
Right, 580%… like from 5000 To 28000, from which all of 146 were on the actual store, over a YEAR.
Meanwhile, Windows is getting like 100,000 malware EVERY WEEK, and we still have to get some laughs from the Windows 8 store.