See the writeup on the historic showdown here. I was nice to Bill, he was nice to me. Doesn't mean it's over. Cause it's not. As Sun Tzu says: "To win without fighting is best." And let's be honest. We all know who won. I friggin pwned him. Bill just sat there and didn't have much to say. I even interrupted him -- yes, on purpose -- and told a story about Woz. Trust me, Bill is not used to being interrupted. And he really really hates it. You can't see it on the videotape, I'm sure, but there was a tiny little trickle of smoke coming out of his ears when I did that. Backstage, afterward, he was screaming at his handlers. Ballmer was smashing chairs, calling me an asshole and saying he's tired of coming down to the Valley and taking this shit from people, blah blah blah.
I must say, Bill actually looked good last night. I think he'd had his horns shaved down right before the show, and he combed his hair down over the stumps. Even up close you could barely see them.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
OK, so we kept it cool
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You are so funny. I almost fell off my chair
How could you possibly resist mentioning the fact that Bill Gates referred to the fact that he is not Fake Steve and RSJ smiled with great amusement. DUDE, FSJ is reaching the mindspace of two of the richest men in the world... well, one who is the richest, and one who is freakishly rich and dominates in software wrapped in beautiful hardware...
Bill having to STFU for a yarn about Woz … oh man. Next thing everyone's going to be telling him his Surface looks like ass. Still, better than that miserable other thing which came out yesterday. Both so clearly need a Jon Ive and a few solid years of non-thinking iterative design, not to even mention what actually runs on them.
Lol. Billy Goat with horns! anyway it was a great interview!
someone needs to make a real 'I'm a Mac . . . & I'm a PC' ad with these two guys . . .
Hi,
I wish I could have been there. FSJ -This is a bit suspicious that you are always first in line with this news. You ARE Bill, really, aren't you?
Bet the evening wasn't as funny as this?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Kwy4R8DfOT4
and with anchors that never work:
You-tub
Regards,
Coral
I was touched, really touched. He said grandparents. He really talked about grandparents and recipes.
I loved the "We've kept our marriage secret for over a decade now" dig. Referring of course to the HUGE, out of court settlement Microsoft paid Apple to resolve the Canyon Software lawsuit started in 1995. That's the incident where Gates and the boyz were caught red handed with copped Quicktime code. RSJ let Gates save face by publicly announcing a $150M "investment" in AAPL, while he was actually bending over and paying $3 billion to settle -- priceless!
great secret gay marriage quote toward the end, before turning it over to (mostly highly lame) questions from the audience.
floored bill for nearly a full minute... he almost didn't know how to recover from that one. good work. looks like rsj has been taking some crib notes from fsj.
i'm sure the folks from fire island, the castro, west hollywood & echo park would approve.
by the by, kara swisher is an utter doofus for not getting the quip, "apple was a ship that leaked from the top." how wrapped up in your own journaltard head do you have to be to not get something like that??
I just wish I was 10% as cool as Kara Swisher thinks she is.
It was billed as Ali-Fraiser but ended up being De La Hoya-Mayweather...could you at least have called him "Beastmaster" or "King Microtard" one time? You know, a crypt-o shout out to your fans...
You should have come on stage smoking a cigar rolled entirely of $100 bills and throwing Apple shares out to the crowd...now that would have been cool. Can I have a job in your PR dept?
Did anyone else think Gates' posture in his chair made him look like Steven Hawking ( http://tinyurl.com/2a89ra )? Hawking of course has an excuse - what the hell is the matter with Billy?
"Ballmer was smashing chairs, calling me an asshole and saying he's tired of coming down to the Valley and taking this shit from people, blah blah blah."
At least he didn't threaten to bury you...
Bill and Steve making nice as the sun begins to set on their lives is kind of depressing, actually.
Making nice? Hardly. Check out the Sun Tzu quote from The Art of War at the beginning of the blog entry.
hahaha funniest shit i have ever read. so did you tell ballmer to STFU?
Hey Steve. Notice how Gates looked like Stephen Hawking in that big red chair?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking
You sure that was Gates?
Bill held back, I woulds tore you apart!
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/
RSJ 2 FSJ, APPL!
-ThunkDifferent.
carlsbad isn't the valley
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