This is from episode 149 of TWiT. John C. Dvorak tells a story about Bill Gates.

For anyone without Flash.

Steve Ballmer, while in an interview the WSJ, decided it would be good to attack Google.

I mean, come on. [Google] have one product. It’s been the same for five years–and they have Gmail now, but they have one product that makes all their money, and it hasn’t changed in five years.

So let’s look at the Windows timeline. 

That would appear to be just over 5 years between major version. 

A friend of mine just sent me a link to an image. I’m not sure what it’s meant to look like, but this somehow seems wrong.

Fun times, i guess.

Edit: It was fixed by:

Delete all 9.0 directories under C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local(Low)\VS*

This is fun quote that i like. Paul Thurrott’s comments about on the Windows Weekly Podcast.

 
Mp3
 

This is from Mix ‘08. Guy Kawasaki asked “What’s the status of Vista, what’s happening?”

Ballmer’s reply, 

… I’m not saying that there aren’t things that customers choose to comment on. (Laughter.) Come on, the number one issue we’ve had customers have issues on were application compatibility and driver compatibility. …

So to paraphrase, the only problem with Vista, is that it doesn’t work with software and it doesn’t work with hardware.

Great! He does go on to explain, but you can look that up for yourself.

I am saddened, not by Microsoft’s success — I have no problem with their success. They’ve earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.

- Steve Jobs 
- Seen in Triumph of the Nerds (1996)