Ballmer: Saving Apple in 1997 was 'craziest thing' Microsoft ever did | Cult of Mac

Ballmer: Saving Apple in 1997 was 'craziest thing' Microsoft ever did | Cult of Mac After saying Amazon is not a great place to work, the conversation drifted to Apple and Ballmer actually admitted that "they’ve done a great job."

Coming from the guy who laughed off the iPhone because he thought the Zune was killer, that’s a hell of a compliment.

Always exciting to read Zune in the same article as Apple.

Steve Ballmer: People don't want to work at Amazon, the only real competition for Apple is Microsoft | VentureBeat | Marketing | by Emil Protalinski

Steve Ballmer: People don't want to work at Amazon, the only real competition for Apple is Microsoft | VentureBeat | Marketing | by Emil Protalinski Steve Ballmer may no longer be CEO at Microsoft, but his love for the company he led for 14 years lives on. Indeed, after being in the news just last week for revealing he owns 4 percent of Twitter, Ballmer is now making headlines for his comments regarding Amazon and Apple.

Reading user comments (could they be the report from the field?) sounds like Google is winning the talent war, which is probably the only war that will matter in 10 years.