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sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called Google Chrome a "rounding error" — 17 years later, Internet Explorer is dead, and Microsoft Edge can barely catch up | Google CEO Sundar Pichai admits that B…

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Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called Google Chrome a "rounding error" — 17 years later, Internet Explorer is dead, and Microsoft Edge can barely catch up | Google CEO Sundar Pichai admits that B…

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sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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Former Microsoft CEO dismissed Chrome as irrelevant — Today, it’s the world’s #1 browser
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Steve Ballmer once mocked Chrome as a “rounding error.” The browser now rules the web while Microsoft Edge fights for scraps.
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    He also laughed at the iPhone, then years later, the windows phone devices bit the big one. He wasn’t very prescient, it seems.

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      He also called linux a cancer

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        Well, on that one, he’s right.

        We are everywhere, we are growing everyday, I don’t see what can stop that from now on.

        Even Microsoft is open sourcing their shit. Azure is more than 50% Linux.

        Fucking Microsoft has a Linux distro now!

        We are cancer, resistance is futile something something waves hand

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        Cancer spreads quite quickly. Linux adoption sadly does not.

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        I came here to up-vote this comment.

        This is what I recall as well.

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      I will say that I loved my Windows Phone. Way ahead of it’s time.

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    Fuck Google. Fuck Microslop.

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    Both are shit anyway, which we all know here. But normies love their Chrome.

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    Monkeyboy said that?

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      “Developers.”

      • Optional@lemmy.world
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        That was a different coke-fueled rampage. But yes.

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          Give it up for MEEEEE!

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          Is that the one where he’s screaming “I… LOVE… THIS… COMPANYYY!!!” instead? Or was that the same one?

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      His spraining his ankle in that will always be funny.

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      Fucking terrifying.

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    Edge is just Chrome with a Microslop skin. They went from crushing Netscape so hard it got open sourced (mostly via monopoly shenanigans) to copying Google’s homework. And their attempts at mobile anything has been failure (Windows CE) after failure (Windows Phone) after failure (Windows for ARM).

    If it weren’t for Office and companies’ undying love of Active Directory and Exchange, Microslop would be a memory and little more.

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      And outlook. Idk why but companies love outlook. And teams. 🤢🤮

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    DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS arrrrrrrgrhhhh

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      sometimes you can just palpably feel the cocaine exuding from early 2000s corp ceo’s

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    Gee, never held Steve Ballmer as pilar of accuracy.

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      Steve Balmer is a pill.

      What is it with Steves in technology being just the worst (Woz is Woz, not Steve).

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    Poor Google, demoralised when another monopoly says it’s not going to break into it’s monopoly.

    But fortunately Google used it’s search monopoly to aggressively push Chrome, and now all that data that Microsoft used to scrape, Google now does.

    Happy ending for the monopoly.

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    Bring back Netscape Navigator

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    KHTML won the browser war.

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    Lol it only took 17 years to prove hom wrong.

    Loooooooooooooooollll

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      He could have shrugged it off (on his way to the bank) after one year!

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    “640kB should be enough for anybody”

    – Bill Gates

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    Wait…don’t you need AOL just to get to the Internet?

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