Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer Confounded by Spyware

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  • Written on: June 8th, 2006

I found this story on an Australian news website. I have no idea if it is true, but either way it is funny.

Microsoft executives love telling stories against each other. Here’s one that platforms vice-president Jim Allchin told at a recent Windows Vista reviewers conference about chief executive Steve Ballmer.

It seems Steve was at a friend’s wedding reception when the bride’s father complained that his PC had slowed to a crawl and would Steve mind taking a look.

Allchin says Ballmer, the world’s 13th wealthiest man with a fortune of about $18 billion, spent almost two days trying to rid the PC of worms, viruses, spyware, malware and severe fragmentation without success.

He lumped the thing back to Microsoft’s headquarters and turned it over to a team of top engineers, who spent several days on the machine, finding it infected with more than 100 pieces of malware, some of which were nearly impossible to eradicate.

If this story is true, it would be incredibly humorous. Although it would be a good test system for Microsoft’s new security service!

Firefox Advantages are Attractive

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  • Written on: June 2nd, 2006

Maybe it is the fact that I am exposed to my programming staff many hours a day, or maybe it is because the FireFox browser is better than Internet Explorer… I am almost using Firefox as much as IE now.

If you have not downloaded Firefox, I recommend you do so and see what I am talking about. You can get Firefox free at http://www.getfirefox.com. While it takes a little longer initially to open FireFox, it does seem to surf a little more quickly.

For those of you who listen to my radio show, or know me personally, you know that I will always use IE. Why? Because that is what my customers use, and I need to know how to support it. When it comes right down to it, Firefox is probably a better browser, but sine IE comes reinstalled on all PCs, more people are always going to use it.

Maybe we should start installing Firefox on all of our new Modular PCs… Hmm….

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