Tech News Article: Microsoft vows to kill google[views:1536][posts:6]______________________________________ [Sep 7,2005 10:06am - the_reverend ""] COURT DOCUMENTS: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Vowed to "KILL" Google News Published: September 2, 2005, 1:07 PM PDT Reprinted From CNET News.com - Written by Ina Fried ----- ---- --- -- - - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer vowed to "kill" Google in an expletitive-laced, chair-throwing tirade when a senior engineer told him he was leaving the company to go work for Google, the engineer claimed in court documents made public on Friday. In a sworn statement made public Friday, Mark Lucovsky, another Microsoft senior engineer who left for Google in November 2004, recounted Ballmer's angry reaction when Lucovsky told Ballmer he was going to work for the search engine company. "At some point in the conversation, Mr. Ballmer said: 'Just tell me it's not Google,'"Lucovosky said in his statement. Lucovosky replied that he was joining Google. "At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office," Lucovosky recounted, adding that Ballmer then launched into a tirade about Google CEO Eric Schmidt. "I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google." Schmidt previously worked for Sun Microsystems and was the CEO of Novell. ARTICLE AT: http://news.com.com/Court+docs+Ballmer+vow...ll+Google/2100-1014_3-5846243.html? COMMENTED AT: http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/09/03/05152...tml?tid=109&tid=217&tid=133&tid=123 ASK YOURSELF: Do you trust a company with "your computer" security/privacy and support a company with a CEO that acts in this manner? ----- ---- --- -- - - MICROSOFT: Self-Admitted World's Largest & Greatest Spammer ----- ---- --- -- - - " I'm with one of the greatest, most hated institutional "spammers" around. We are a spamhouse. Doesn't matter that we're Microsoft. Our legitimate, unsolicited email is still just spam. " - Mike Lyman - MICROSOFT HEAD EMAIL ABUSE ADMINISTRATOR |
| ____________________________________________________ [Sep 7,2005 10:21am - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] I didn't read the article yet, but I don't see how they're going to kill google when their "better-than-google" new msn search engine blows. |
| _______________________________________________________________ [Sep 7,2005 12:53pm - Ryan from HBBSI still isnt logged in ""] there needs to be some violence coming out of this. it'd be awesome seeing suits kill eachother |
| ___________________________________ [Sep 7,2005 1:00pm - anonymous ""] so kill yourself? |
| ______________________________________________________________ [Sep 7,2005 3:43pm - Ryan from HBBSI still isnt logged in ""] sweet. i have an anonymous enemy on the board. im now officially part of the rttp family |
| ___________________________________ [Sep 7,2005 3:44pm - babyshaker ""] congrats man |
| ____________________________________ [Sep 7,2005 5:49pm - jonny8pins ""] bill gates is the only person i would vote to be president |