An interesting afterthought to my previous pieceon the battle between Microsoft Office and Google Apps was posted on Garett Rogers’ “Googling Google” blogon ZDnet’s Blogosphere. Rogers noted Balmmer’s belitteling remark on Google Apps – “you can’t even put a footnote in a document” and says: Perhaps what happened directly after he said that is precisely why Microsoft [...]
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A gauntlet in your eye, Steve (update)
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Learning from others, Narratives, So satisfyingTags: chutzpah, Garett Rogers, Google Apps, Googling Google, MIcrosoft Office, Steve Ballmer
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Chutzpah by any other name
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Learning from others, Narratives, So satisfying, TheoriesTags: Android, Apple, BlueBerry, chutzpah, ComScore, David Girouard, Gartner, Google Apps, John C. Dvorak, Linux, mobile Windows, OpenOffice, skipping Vista, Steve Ballmer, Symbian. Micrsofot Office, Windows 7, Windows Vista capable machines, Yahoo!
There are many definitions of the term Chutzpah- my gran’s description of someone with chutzpah is “a person who kills his parents and then asks for the court’s mercy becasue he’s an orphan.” I wish I could pit Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer against gran – she would have taken him apart.