macfidelity

Steve Ballmer hat sich mal wieder zum Thema Macs geäußert:

Ballmer: “…you’ll see us be much more vigorous about stating the case for the PC. The truth of the matter is, this is ironic. The PC outsells the Mac 33 to 1—32 to 1. And despite the fact that we don’t sell PCs, we only sell Windows to people who make PCs. And the attack is actually on the PCs, interestingly enough. You’ll see us defend the PC. We’re going to talk about why — look, PCs are better than Macs. That is not something that can be debated. [TMO emphasis] 32 out of every 33 times, somebody buys a PC instead of a Mac. I’m not saying that there are not some things that people like about Macs, apparently there are. But have you ever seen a cheap Mac? No.”

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While Mr. Gates retired at Microsoft here an interessting interview from 1986 out of the “Programmers at work series”.

Edit: another great note from Bill’s history is his: “Open letter to hobbyists” from 1976

Links:

• Programmers at work with Bill Gates from 1986
  
• Open letter to hobbyist from 1976