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Ballmer: We aren't scared of Dropbox

article published on 30 January, 2013

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer dismissed Dropbox today, while pumping the company's own SkyDrive cloud service. The exec called Dropbox a "fine little startup" but claimed that its 100 million users are really "a pretty small number" compared to the amount of Office, SkyDrive and Hotmail/Live users. Ballmer says the company's next goal is to move past 1 billion Office users despite the ... [ read the full article ]

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Bozobub
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_ 		30. January 2013 @ 22:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Apparently Ballmer thinks that having the equivalent of 1/3 the population of the US as customers is a bad thing.
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lamain
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_ 		30. January 2013 @ 23:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I am far from a expert but from were I am sitting he has to go or Microsoft has a very bad road up and coming.
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ThePastor
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_ 		31. January 2013 @ 12:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Balmer will be known in the future as "The Guy who Killed Windows"
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Oh, Im sorry... Did the middle of my sentence interrupt the beginning of yours?
bloke2000
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_ 		31. January 2013 @ 16:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by ThePastor:
 Balmer will be known in the future as "The Guy who Killed Windows"
You make a good point and I think it will remain the main OS of business for some time to come. The tablet and Desktop markets are likely to struggle the most.
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bloke2000
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aldan
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_ 		31. January 2013 @ 17:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
there is a fine line between arrogance and confidence and he crossed it by a mile.
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