{"id":2366,"date":"2008-05-20T20:05:31","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T20:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/05\/20\/steve-ballmer-ends-up-with-egg\/"},"modified":"2008-05-20T20:05:31","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T20:05:31","slug":"steve-ballmer-ends-up-with-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/20\/steve-ballmer-ends-up-with-egg\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Ballmer ends up with egg on his face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has a deal with the government of Hungary which costs the government billions and traps university students in the Microsoft Gap.  This is the usual monopolistic evil corporate policy that makes thinking people dislike Microsoft (everyone else is a mindless clone.  Sorry, but, well, I&#8217;m just sayin&#8217;).Anyway, Microsoft Strong Man Steve Ballmer had the audacity to visit a Hungarian University.  And what he got, he had coming.<!--more--><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mtBQ4UCXQeo&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object>Ha!  I love watching Ballmer ducking behind the desk.  Now he knows what the average Windows user feels.You may remember, something similar happened to Bill Gates a while back:<object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dhe0H8RDNcc&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object>Hey, Bill!  I think you have some UNUSED ICONS on your freakin&#8217; desktop.  Please let me take care of that for you.  Please backup your system and close all running software before updating your syst&#8230;&#8230;  oooops<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-5d9d93eaa72d8e75a31ebbdfb4af2925-Wkindows_blue_screen_of_death.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-5d9d93eaa72d8e75a31ebbdfb4af2925-Wkindows_blue_screen_of_death.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has a deal with the government of Hungary which costs the government billions and traps university students in the Microsoft Gap. This is the usual monopolistic evil corporate policy that makes thinking people dislike Microsoft (everyone else is a mindless clone. Sorry, but, well, I&#8217;m just sayin&#8217;).Anyway, Microsoft Strong Man Steve Ballmer had the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/20\/steve-ballmer-ends-up-with-egg\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Steve Ballmer ends up with egg on his face<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-Ca","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}