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Ballmer takes potshots in India at Microsoft’s competition PDF Print E-mail
Written by Sufia Tippu   
Sunday, 12 November 2006
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“iPod is an island and that’s what plays into one of the strengths of our Zune; Google is a just a search engine and YouTube is actually something that people copied up from TV and is a copyright law problem waiting to happen; IBM has worked hard to get the government to be its ally on the regulatory front and that’s why it doesn’t draw flak from regulators.”

That was Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, saying whatever he felt was right, and not caring less if he was politically incorrect. Or was he just hitting back because the going was becoming too tough for Microsoft with the likes of Google and Yahoo, pressing hard on the innovation button?

There was no specific agenda for his visit. The Microsoft spokesperson gave the usual stereotype reply that India was important for Microsoft from both a customer and talent perspective and that Ballmer’s trip was to keep himself abreast of development and opportunities here.

Sources at the Microsoft India Development Center said that this visit was just to pep up the morale at the development center. Microsoft has not exactly been the blue-eyed favorite among analysts with a pretty unsatisfactory growth graph during the last few quarters especially against the background of Google and Yahoo going great guns.

Apart from doing the usual rounds of meeting the Prime Minister and interacting with the employees at the Microsoft India Development Center in Hyderabad, Ballmer, for a short while also played a different role of being a guest editor at The Economic Times, one of India’s leading business dailies.

With competition coming up loud and clear, it was but natural for questions to revolve around Google which is seen emerging as the ‘thought leader’ of the Internet age with Microsoft falling behind.

When queried about this, Ballmer is said to have replied that at the end of the day there is only one thing to do - develop and bring new products and services in the market.
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