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For six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul

Wednesday, October 06, 2004

What Steve Ballmer said

The Guardian Unlimited does a great job debunking all the baloney you've read this week about Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer supposedly accusing iPod owners of always stealing music. As usual, the truth is so much less sensational than the crud you read on Mac advocacy Web sites. And it was so darned easy: All the reporter had to do was find out what Ballmer actually said. Huh.

It's perfectly clear what point Ballmer is making, and it's about users, not about iPods. It also seemed to me obvious, at the time, that Ballmer was joking.

He also nicely handles the Ballmer quote about Media Center PCs and the end-to-end work Microsoft is doing, and Apple isn't doing. It's the quote I also accurately called out as being dead-on just a few days ago. It just goes to show you: Mac crazies just can't handle the truth, and God help anyone who has the cajones to criticize Apple--or even appear to criticize Apple--even when they're right.

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