The Engadget Show, live with Steve Ballmer!

Keep your eyes tuned to this post -- because at around 2:30PM ET (give or take), we'll be starting The Engadget Show live, with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer as our guest! You don't want to miss it!

Update: And that's a wrap! Thanks to everyone who watched the stream, we'll have the full recording available tomorrow.

[gillza Posted Oct 22nd 2009 2:43PM]

weeeeee i hear voices in my head

[Randomness Posted Oct 22nd 2009 2:44PM]

still nothing?

[gillza Posted Oct 22nd 2009 2:47PM]

did some one say a little while ago "what is it crashes?" hehe not much hope in MS...

[Sonic Death Monkey Posted Oct 22nd 2009 2:47PM]

HOT MIC!

[Rossgadget Posted Oct 22nd 2009 2:53PM]

seriously... this audio is effd

[Apeman Posted Oct 22nd 2009 2:50PM]

Still nothing...... at school with some friends wanting to watch..... Meh will wait.

[tylersmyler Posted Oct 22nd 2009 2:50PM]

i think the show is set back a little..

I just heard some behind the scenes audio!

I can hear Josh planning

[tylersmyler Posted Oct 22nd 2009 2:52PM]

yeahhhh!!! Endadget FTW

[Hydra Posted Oct 22nd 2009 2:56PM]

Its not very loud I can't hear it very well , all my volume is max

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 22nd 2009 3:28PM]

All your volume are belong to us

[Smurf Posted Oct 22nd 2009 2:59PM]

Attendees with pies will be shot on sight

[orinjz Posted Oct 22nd 2009 3:00PM]

Is it just me or does Ballmer seem a little bit tipsy?

[brothaa Posted Oct 22nd 2009 3:05PM]

go balmer

[bureX Posted Oct 22nd 2009 3:13PM]

Poor volume, boring questions... Engadget can do much better!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 22nd 2009 3:23PM]

Yeah I couldn't hear anything so I stopped watching

[Matthyahuw Posted Oct 22nd 2009 3:24PM]

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[xunknownx Posted Oct 22nd 2009 3:27PM]

what video were they talking about?

[THJ Posted Oct 22nd 2009 3:29PM]

Any way to start at the beginning, or does it need to be repackaged after the live one goes off-tubes?

[Hydra Posted Oct 22nd 2009 3:30PM]

Lame interview, in now convinced he doesn't know or care anything about the company. Its like someone hired Jon Madden to run microsoft

[Alex Posted Oct 22nd 2009 3:31PM]

My gosh Joshua is an ass. Does every question have to be totally underhanded?

[Verythrax Posted Oct 22nd 2009 3:38PM]

True

[CoyM Posted Oct 22nd 2009 3:48PM]

Agreed. I mean really, real journalsim doesn't do that.

[HAZE Posted Oct 22nd 2009 3:31PM]

WTF are these weirdos doing? Make it stop!!!

[Fafner Posted Oct 22nd 2009 4:01PM]

Congrats to Josh - I thought that interview was much better than the last! Ballmer even came across less weird than usual, and actually said some very interesting things.

[themonk Posted Oct 22nd 2009 3:33PM]

That was brutal!

soooo choppy - worst live web-cast ever

[Rossgadget Posted Oct 22nd 2009 3:34PM]

PUT MICS ON THE WHOLE ROUNDTABLE!!!

[dimithra Posted Oct 22nd 2009 3:35PM]

yay

[Hanfwurst Posted Oct 22nd 2009 3:37PM]

huh?

[Verythrax Posted Oct 22nd 2009 3:45PM]

What's that video that Ballmer (and me) didn't watched yet?

[schreibman Posted Oct 22nd 2009 3:49PM]

I got on to youstream late, is there a way to get this after it is streamed?

[Verythrax Posted Oct 22nd 2009 3:53PM]

Surely it will be available for download in a couple of days, tops.

[runner50783 Posted Oct 22nd 2009 3:49PM]

Guys don't complain. I really doubt engadget has the resources to afford a quality broadcast. I really appreciate the effort they are making, I've seen this type of issues even with CNN, NYT and other big media companies. What I really see here is that they may have underestimated their show.

[Hydra Posted Oct 22nd 2009 3:57PM]

The talk at the end with the rest of engadget was better than the whole interview! Its as if Ballmer doesn't even know what is going on inside his own company.

His direction ideas are wrong, bing is money wasted.

winmo 6.5 is full of fail, its as if they know what people want but can't seem to deliver, I know they have smart guys there, but its as if management is preventing good ideas from coming out

They are becoming dinosaurs

[Alan Strangis Posted Oct 22nd 2009 4:08PM]

Agreed about WinMo 6.5, but it's been obvious for the past few months that 6.5 is a stop gap.

Whether they can get 7 out soon enough to make a difference is another story. I'm sure Ballmer is playing the cards close when it comes to WM7, especially since 6.5 was just released.

I HOPE that 7 brings the promises suggested by the Zune HD, and the rumoured hardware specs...

http://www.rgbfilter.com/?p=815

But that remains to be seen. I think Project Pink and the Danger acquisition were wastes of time and resources (though it sounds like Pink was a red herring to egg the mobile dept along).

[slamEVIL Posted Oct 22nd 2009 4:03PM]

you guys didn't bring up the windows store, wasn't it launched today???

[Alan Strangis Posted Oct 22nd 2009 4:04PM]

Stream worked fine for me throughout the whole show in Toronto.

Blame it on you bandwidth (or maybe your ISP throttling).

[simblor Posted Oct 22nd 2009 4:25PM]

That was meant to be a response to someone complaining about the band at the end. Stupid comment system :)

[coolpal Posted Oct 22nd 2009 4:19PM]

C'mon dude derrik... go do your homework!

C'mon stupid engadget comment system... go burn in hell!!! (This is the second time I am posting, but might not see it too)

pal :)

[coolpal Posted Oct 22nd 2009 4:20PM]

thank you... this comment was supposed to be a reply to a comment on first page.
Arghh.... "running with a gun stick to find the person who created this comment system"

[teamlouish Posted Oct 22nd 2009 4:19PM]

Was the stream recorded? How do I watch it after it was live. Or am i screwed?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 22nd 2009 4:21PM]

I just want to know why they didn't bother to provide some type of integration between Zune and Media Center

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 22nd 2009 4:27PM]

Say hi to Uncle Fester for me! Ask him why MS is spending so much advertising on Apple when they are a "statistical anomaly" in the home computing market.

[Darwin Posted Oct 22nd 2009 4:50PM]

Jesus, who cares about anything Ballmer has to say?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 22nd 2009 4:36PM]

Boys... I think this is the best idea you guys have come up with yet. I really look forward to the Engadget Show every time you guys post an upcoming event. The uStream worked amazingly well. I live in the NY Area and will def be physically present at the next one!

BTW - Didn't Steve seem like the weird dad at your friend's house that you never really wanted to see?

[randomblame Posted Oct 22nd 2009 6:56PM]

I like how my comment disappeared as if by magic....
so here is my recap of the missing comment:
the band stank they should all go out and get real jobs and try to forget the embarrassment they put themselves through today.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 23rd 2009 4:23PM]

Where is the promised uploaded show???

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 26th 2009 1:44PM]

josh topolsky, i have a very important message for you:
i get that you are a dork. many of us here are. i also get that you are going for that elusive "so dorky it's cool" fashion statement. that said, THERE ARE NO WORDS FOR THOSE PANTS YOU WORE DURING THE BALLMER INTERVIEW. sooooo tight, and sooooo wrong. i don't know if those were from wardrobe, or from your personal collection, BUT THEY MUST BE BURNED IMMEDIATELY.
thanks,
chris
ps- love the show, keep up the good work ;-)

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 29th 2009 4:30AM]

Just got money in my CDBaby account from Zune stream subscription service. I guess I like this platform. I'm getting a new MacBook Pro in the next month but I'll dual boot Windows 7 what the hell..........Topolski you stood your own in the interview and managed a fluid, even humorous at times...Windows Mobile though - suck EEE. Plus I'm 1/2 Finn and no one can pronounce Nokia correctly. Nokia used to manufacture Finnish rubber fishing boots. Keep fishin' suckas. Finns are willing to fight even when it's cold and and the odds are against them. Beware of the http://www.hulluporo.fi The Crazy Vodka Drinking Crazy Reindeer!!!! I went snowboarding there.