{"id":122,"date":"2005-09-04T17:41:31","date_gmt":"2005-09-04T15:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dionaea.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/04\/steve-ballmer-im-going-to-kill-google\/"},"modified":"2005-09-04T17:41:31","modified_gmt":"2005-09-04T15:41:31","slug":"steve-ballmer-im-going-to-kill-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dionaea.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/04\/steve-ballmer-im-going-to-kill-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Ballmer: Im going to kill Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bad habits are hard to change, and with MS accused of killing off competitors before, <a href=\"http:\/\/battellemedia.com\/archives\/001835.php\">recent news<\/a> at Jogn Battele&#8217;s site are interesting to read. Former Microsoft employee Mark Lucovsky started to work for Google in 2004, and in legal documents in the current lawsuit between Google and Microsoft over Google&#8217;s hiring of Kai-Fu Lee, Mark has the following statement from a meeting he had with Steve Ballmer to discuss his departure:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAt some point in the conversation Mr. Ballmer said: &#8220;Just tell me it&#8217;s not Google.&#8221; I told him it was Google. <\/p>\n<p>At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office. Mr. Ballmer then said: &#8220;Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I&#8217;m going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I&#8217;m going to fucking kill Google.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ballmer calls this a gross exaggeration of what took place<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?q=Mark+Lucovsky+Google+Microsoft&#038;hl=en&#038;hs=mYz&#038;lr=&#038;c2coff=1&#038;safe=off&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;sa=N&#038;pwst=1&#038;tab=nn&#038;oi=newsr\">Read more about it in the news<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad habits are hard to change, and with MS accused of killing off competitors before, recent news at Jogn Battele&#8217;s site are interesting to read. Former Microsoft employee Mark Lucovsky started to work for Google in 2004, and in legal documents in the current lawsuit between Google and Microsoft over Google&#8217;s hiring of Kai-Fu Lee, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dionaea.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/04\/steve-ballmer-im-going-to-kill-google\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Steve Ballmer: Im going to kill Google&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-anything"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Steve Ballmer: Im going to kill Google - Random Thoughts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dionaea.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/04\/steve-ballmer-im-going-to-kill-google\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Steve Ballmer: Im going to kill Google - Random Thoughts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bad habits are hard to change, and with MS accused of killing off competitors before, recent news at Jogn Battele&#8217;s site are interesting to read. 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