Steve Ballmer: Microsoft 'Like a Startup' in Search

[futureboy00]

you are still retarded

[ngconstantine]

Go Steve i am cheering for ya



[HamzaVids]

no offense really, but it feels weird when i see an old guy talking about a tech company XD I'm used to see young people run this type of businesses hhhh 

[threeclock]

@HamzaVids Young people work for "old" people as they do the tech stuff. The "old" people run a business... they can give shit about how to code in C++ or C.

[ImperialArmour]

woohoo Ballmer! I buy your software!

[hdzsound]

1:07 min

Steve like Kat Staks

[djdecca]

imagine getting bing chrome as a new web browser

[mkjackson]

"We're just like a startup!" ...except we've got capital falling out of our asses, are already embedded as defacto leaders in almost every other tech market (office, windows, server, ASP.NET, etc), technology that partially defines the market to back us up (because we made it) and have existed for about a quarter century making a profit... maybe he should have said, "We FEEL just like a startup!" (because we're putting in all this effort but thanks to the established are going nowhere fast!)

[jeroeniskoning]

Fuck Microsoft !

[david2032blogs]

@mikeatEMEco It's called expansion. Google did it for every market it's in but for search. Apple has done it. Why does it have to become a problem when MS does it? It's one of the primary principles of growing a business: Expanding into new markets.

[smokersdyeyounger]

i saw the bing advert the other day and wondered what it was so i googled it.

[wrapdotinc]

if this idiot could become the CEO of Microsoft so can you and I

[Supenmanu]

Bing is Chinese for sick (seriously).

[svanhoosen]

Why when Ballmer says, "We need to be patient and persistent," does it remind me of Vito Corleone saying, "We'll make him an offer he can't refuse?"

[svanhoosen]

A start-up with $50 billion in cash is not a start-up.

[smartin807]

I think that the Tech sector product development / turn around times have become too short in the 21st Century for Microsoft to really pull off the success they had in the 80's and 90's by copying and out pacing the originators of a given technology. With these kind of turn-around times, Microsoft keeps looking like they're coming to the party with too little, too late.

[MrPrancinghorse]

This is the first thing I heard from him that I agree with. I guess that is because for the first time he was calm.

[1888junkteam]

excellent work!

[peppeddu]

Google is slowly eroding Microsoft business by giving free online version of their software (Spreadsheet, Word, and now OSes)

Microsoft should erode Google's business as well

What Microsoft should do, is an "AdSense" for Bing that pays more than what Google does.

Singe 98% of Google's revenues comes from Ads it's gonna be a big hit for Google when publishers will move to Bing (because they can make more money)

MS don't even need to run it for a profit, Google can never match that!

[invertedoniony]

But if Bing isn't as good as Google (which it isn't), it won't get the traffic -> impressions -> clicks on those ads anyway...

[peppeddu]

@invertedoniony It doesn't have to be.

Google doesn't have a better office suite than Microsoft, yet they are giving it away for free, and they are slowly eroding Microsoft's profit.

They (MS) can do the same for advertising.

Is Bing is only 10% popular compared to Google?, they can erode Google's revenue by 10% (which is many billions of dollars)

Microsoft has many revenue streams, Google has only one (advertising)

Remove that and everything else that they do will automatically disappear.

[fkthewhat]

'we can't outspend'

Wow... They've got no chance.

[opaz79]

who the fuck click ads anyway?

[sinbadbuddha]

You know it costs people like.. a dollar when you click their ads? I do it just for that!

[MrRalf44]

Lost a lot of respect for Microsoft since they are caving to China. Go Google!!!!

[mackenziepricee]

@MrRalf44 Why? You rather Bing leave and give China even less choice on the internet?

[pramiracetam]

They don't have choice to begin with

[JTurbinator]

I hate Bing.

[aikiwolfie]

Yeah you're right. I got it wrong. He didn't say sorry.

[NLterror6000]

STEVE SAY IT BING BING BING

[IjjIElite]

@NLterror6000 LOLOL

[Forseyman]

BING BING BING

[DrgunZFilmZ]

BING UR FIRED LUL

[mittalpa]

did he say startup?

[wennydi]

Baldmer,

actually.... I don't get you..

[sukiesoya]

well you failed cos bing is shit

[aikiwolfie]

LOL I can translate this video.

Umm ... investors ... we screwed up and missed the whole search thing and just didn't get it and now it's too late. Sorry.

[KingYiddish]

interesting that he almost refuses to say the word "Google"

[CaptPoco]

That's cause it's two syllables: Goo-gle. Bing! See you see that it's just Bing! Just like that. Microsoft is a startup.

[franwex]

Well, love em, or hate em, Microsoft right now is one of 3 companies in the US with an AAA rating.

I mostly use Google to search stuff, but Bing isn't so bad either.

[ChrisInAStrangeLand]

Interesting, 'cause five years ago Ballmer was suggesting that they could outspend Google 5:1.

That was before the Facebook and Aquantive disasters and the Yahoo near-miss though.

[Paddis92]

Say what you will about Steve Ballmer, but they guy is a genius when it comes to business.

[keytoothed]

@Paddis92 "$500 Dollars!!! Who's gonna wanna pay $500 dollars for an iPhone. FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS!!!!!" Yeah. Genius.

[Paddis92]

@keytoothed So your saying he's not a genius?

[tmac2000]

Yeah, if by "genius" you mean asshole

[Paddis92]

No, when I say "genius" i mean exactly that. There's a reason why Steve Ballmer is one of the richest people on the planet and there's a reason why he's the CEO of Microsoft.

If you don't want to acknowledge that, fine, but you cannot make a serious argument against it.

[IgnorantPCFanboys]

@Paddis92 quiet: genius at work

watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc

[SONIC2620081981]

did microsoft by yahoo?

[Emotionengne]

after getting egged in public he finally learned how to behave in front of the media

[MsOperator0]

Great. Another perfect example of Steves ability to look at a situation from every view.

[louielamson2000]

How well [MSN-BING] came out...?

8-2009

[bathellfire]

He looks like he was dragged behind a car face down.

[MrFurryface]

he reminds me of goof ball guy who was on Married with children...lol

[shempone]

he looks pinks...

must be on the booz as his company is goin shit..

[sausagenmuff]

have you seen his other videos? He's a coked-up loonball LOL

[pzembashis]

the cool thing is i googled this and watched it on a Google product "YouTube" take that Microsoft!

[furylincoln]

rofl same here

[blackhamster]

That's awesome. it's like the other day, when I watched an ad for a Toshiba TV on my Sony Blu Ray on a Panasonic Plasma. Suck it Toshiba!

[MegF142857]

I like seeing him squirm! Given all the BSOD we've endured, then I love to see the worry lines. But a startup? Give me a break! How about "You missed the boat" and I'm glad you did!

[brentgv]

MSFT would agree that they missed the boat. I don't think he's squirming here as much as he is being frank.

[venuecam]

Ballmer always squirms when he talks about any company M$ competes with. It's cally justification and it will be the reason for M$'s eventually retreat back to what they do best - develop software. They are doing wayyyy too much (being an enterprise) and are being hurt finacially because of it.

[laxbillion89]

ballmer is really reducing microsoft's reputation. He will surely bring the company down with his arrogancy towards competitors.

when bill was there... people would listen to him. ballmer is THE microsoft's enemy for sure !!!

[PaulCynic]

Haha "We're not the market leader"... Exactly true. If Microsoft didn't have an OS monopoly, they'd be forced to actually provide the services that people are demanding, rather than the bullshit they've been pumping out for decades now. Their 'we own your soul' philosophy is exactly why people hate them.

Google, on the other hand, is providing high quality services based on actual customer needs. Its because of their high quality products and services that they're the number one player.

[DNATS]

True, but the bigger they get the more hated they become. And I think Google is getting there. People want alternatives. Google is becoming so powerful that they have been becoming the de facto for privacy issue. They are indexing everything from search habits to street view. The question is, how much do you trust your personal information to google?

[websnarf]

Ballmer sounds like he's read a book or two about search and start ups but didn't really understand what he was reading.

There is no part of Microsoft that is anything like a start up. Trying different business tactics is not how start-ups behave (they typically pick one and try like the dickens to make it work, on very little funding.)

Google's strength is not being big. Its being smart. They put 99% of their PhDs to work on their products. At Microsoft its < 1%.

[charleshoskinson]

Your data is completely false. Microsoft employs many more PhDs than Google in over 30 countries. They are a massive company with many failures and many successes. Obviously you choose to ignore the success and focus on the failure. Let me ask you this question: how do you build an operating system for over a billion users? Ask Microsoft about windows 7, but of course you'll mention Vista and only focus on it.

[websnarf]

My information is a lot more personal than you might imagine.

It doesn't matter how many PhD's Microsoft actually hires -- barely any of them work on any actual product. Microsoft hires them just to make sure their competitors don't hire them; they could care less what they actually do for Microsoft.

I know all about Win7, and its fine. But its still ankle biting off of Mac OS X and Linux, not delivering anything unique or creative. And its about 5 years too late.

[JehxOne]

FACE PALM: when words can't explain fail

[blueshocked]

I couldn't help myself from shaking my head while watching this, I think he needs a reality check, and a reminder what company he is talking about.

[putittogether]

LMAO, are people really so stupid to believe what this guys is saying?

[johnstall5350]

i can never take this guy seriously

[seanprendevil]

Very good speaker though

[666norton420]

"someone who has many times revenue as us"

ummm.... is he not talking about M$?

and why isn't he jumping around the stage yelling "CLICK ADS, CLICK ADS, CLICK ADS!!!!!" ?

maybe he's more toned down this time as they're getting utterly killed in the search engine niche.

what they should do, as a company, is focus on the product that made them rich in the first place, which as of yet, still sucks utter balls!

last thing we need is a search giving us blue screens and freezing all the time!

;d

[zelrikriandooo]

He is talking about the 'search' section of his company. Microsoft is investing Millions to compete with Google. So in that context, yes Google is making much more money than say...Bing.

Right now they think of their OS as something invincible, so they are trying to grow on the web and other markets. The problem is that by doing that, the list of M$ competitors keeps growing. Before, they didnt have to deal with Sony, Nintendo, Google and all those big shots...they'll eventually reach a wall

[SukhdevZomer]

Microsoft still underestimates the power of branding. Microsoft still thinks they can reach for the stars. Google and Apple have clear won the race in terms of innovation and creativity. And I don't think Microsoft will win the search-engine war that will unfold.

[charleshoskinson]

Windows 7 is the most advanced operating system ever developed and will completely overtake the market share of XP. Microsoft isn't an innovative company they are an evolver. They take the best features from Linux and Apple and integrate them into their OS for the masses.

[fielsjd]

I don't hear any sound on this one.

[666norton420]

working fine for me.

;d

[smsthalia]

Try it again because earlier Youtube was having glitches.

[IChoseTheRedPill]

yahoo...