Comments on: Live Blog: Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer in Sydney

By: Stephen Stockwell

Stephen Stockwell — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:37:03 +0000

@Stilgherrian: I’ll give it a crack. Soonish.

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:53:13 +0000

@Stephen Stockwell: Well there is that, yes. I’m still looking forward to a nice essay from you rather than just sniping from the sidelines. Not that sniping isn’t fun, but…

I suspect that essay has already been written by someone. Maybe half an hour on The Google will reveal it?

By: Stephen Stockwell

Stephen Stockwell — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:17:15 +0000

Stilgherrian @Stephen Stockwell: Why don't you just write it yourself? Do I have to do everything for you lot?

By: Stephen Stockwell

Stephen Stockwell — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:13:41 +0000

Having followed your link yesterday morning to Microsoft’s pitch for this ‘event’, and given what we already know about how they like to do business, it comes as no surprise that this was nothing more than a hot gust expelled from the MS arse-crack. Now I’ve just had a flick through your commentary and I quite like your evangelical preacher analogy. Of course, in such a paradigm, cynical cunts like you in the media section who look for substance beneath the hype would be conveniently backhanded as “un-believers”.

Here’s a thought, though: why don’t you write an essay on the evolution of evangelical mentalities in corporate America — from the convergence of Protestant Christianity and the show business sensibilities of P.T. Barnum? That’d be a good read.

By: DamianM

DamianM — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:59:12 +0000

I think the difference is that Microsoft are pushing desktop apps that can talk to “the cloud” to sync / update / share data. They obviously don’t want the desktop to head down the commodity path.