The Engadget Show, live with Steve Ballmer!
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted Oct 22nd 2009 3:21PM
posted Oct 22nd 2009 3:21PM
Update: And that's a wrap! Thanks to everyone who watched the stream, we'll have the full recording available tomorrow.
w00p!
High-Jacking...
Love how at the end of the interview they Don't wana talk about Windows 7 because theres "to much to talk about, not enough time to cover anything" even tho its a Windows 7 LiveStream... so they move on to talk about apple and how much they love the new macs...
Come on. That's just fanboyism...
The whole "Windows is for business/games" and "Macs are great for multimedia" thing is just marketing and groupthink. There is far more multimedia production software for Windows, there is far more everything for Windows. OS X just runs a tiny subset of computer software, Windows is the superset.
The major problem I have with Apple fans is them telling everyone that Windows is so crappy and Macs are the best. I use Macintosh every once in a while and I will admit its a great OS. But the advantages (and disadvantages) are not that great to require an entire marketing campaign from Cupertino to constantly compare to OSX to Vista or 7. Why not take a page out of MS book and talk about what the OS can do instead of bashing the other company.
And BTW....anyone who saw the demo of those Windows 7 machines today (courtesy of WSJ) will agree that you don't have to go to OSX for performance, sexy and productivity. It all boils down to your style. If you like OSX go for it...if Windows is your thing then use it. But I challenge any Mac user to go for a year without benefiting from a Windows computer.........now if you'll escuse me....I have to install Windows 7 Professional on my Dell XPS 13...
well the show was kind of cute, but that is nothing compared to what we've seen in the past when Mr. Ballmer was really comedical.
You got to love his pictures this halloween
Hilarity Link: http://pinoytutorial.com/bestandworst/steve-ballmer-wears-a-halloween-costume
"just for laughs"
YES!!!
no lol
NO!! This is exactly the time my psychology class begin.
Can you guys wait for me?
ditching philosophy 105, Intro to ethics, to watch this
@Nick: Are you sure that's ethical?
Engadget needs to ask him about the Zune HD 64gb model
Good thing Nick. Ethics and the Microsoft monopoly taking advantage of consumers though predatory price discrimination and high mark-ups don't mix;[
BTW, what ever happened to the original thread about Ballmer. Was it deleted?
Who's Steve Ballmer?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk
I'm not sure if this is sarcasm or not, but just in case it isn't he's the CEO of Microsoft.
Who's Bob Marley?
really?
@ Badger. Obviously you know who he is considering you knew who it was according to just his picture.
@derrik
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sarcasm
Consumers! Consumers! Consumers!
I sure hope you guys remember to awkwardly ask Steve about Apple and the iPhone rather than talking about the impact on the PC ecosystem. Could you remember to do that, thanks.
mehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh just another guy who works for bill gate.
who's bill gate?
@ Galen
He's the guy that ran Macintosh so hard in to the fringe of the computer market place that only women who don't have any computer skills or gay men would buy one. Not that there is anything wrong with being a Mac.
i hope theres a replay. im bout to work and miss this..
Any ideas for what time this is in GMT?
Thanks in advance if you know :P
Ollie
Oh and forgot to say... looking forward to the show so much guys!
i`ll catch it on m windows phones using skyfire...o yeah we can do thing like that! :)
i...just...dont have capacitive :(
YET!!!!
HD2 FTW!
It is at 2:30 PM Eastern right? so in 30 minutes? I am on the west cost it is 11:00 AM here.
wow, tried to sign up for an account at ustream and uh when i click submit the next page won't load, awesome.
Yay! No silverlight!
Are you kidding? Silverlight's web application framework is 100X better than shitty Flash, wtf.
Are you a virus author traceroute?
hmmm, still trying to get that ustream account set up, now its saying my password is too short minimum 4 characters max 14 and i am using 9
Make sure you make fun of his evasive answers. It was an awesome strategy for Rubenstein.
Also PLEASE PLEASE dress him in a tophat and tails and do a dance number to Puttin' on the Ritz. Don't wave fire in front of him though.
Dang! No silverlight!
BEWARE the Ballmer!
damn I wish I could go DAMN IT!. . . I kinda chose Management info Systems and IT Project Management class over BALMER :-\ . . . Wish I went now though... then to Capcom Fight Club later on tday... Oh well... I graduate in december so gotta stay on my shit
The opening music should be made available for download as a ringtone.
Josh, I hope your iPhone doesn't go off during the show =)
WOO HOO finally got my ustream account up and running. also kind of loving windows 7, although i could have kept using the RC cuz the retail version ain't a whole lot different, and why in the hell were there 10 IMPORTANT updates in windows update this morning at like 10am EST???? how can you have 10 updates on opening day??? WTF BALLMER?
FYI you can watch this show at http://www.ustream.tv/Engadget and they have a live chat gimmick goin.
I'm slightly afraid.
I have an extra diaper on hand.
@everyone asking about timezones
For a group of tech nerds, it sounds like you have a pretty poor understanding of simple arithmetic. We'll forget about geography for now.
:P
did they just postpone this by 10minutes?
*taps shoe* they're LATE! im an impatient hedgehog just so you know
I refuse to sign up for an account on this thing, wtf, and video is yet to play
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
ok this streaming service sucks, I cant connect and its all out of wack on IE, Firefox and Chrome.. what gives??
What gives Engadget, where's the freakin show!?!?!?
I know I slept in and didn't get out there to get my tix live but don't punish me like this