巴尔默关于Firefox和Google的小秘密
以下片段发生在巴尔默在接受一家杂志采访的时候:
In an interview with Effective Corporate Evildoings magazine, a sweat-soaked Ballmer was chatting about how open source is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches when he went to pull up a website to prove part of his point. The interviewer, Gern Blanston, moved around to Ballmer's side of the table to view the website Ballmer wanted to show him when he was taken aback by Ballmer's choice of web browser and home page.
"I was shocked to the point that I passed a wee bit of a toot. It made me feel not-so-fresh for the remainder of the interview," Blanston recalled.
When asked about his choice of internet platforms, Ballmer mentioned that the browser came pre-loaded on his Dell Laptop and he couldn't figure out how to uninstall it, change the homepage, or find where IE was.
大意是巴尔默在接受采访时不小心被记者发现他在使用firefox和google，在记者的追问下，巴尔默辩解说firefox是戴尔的笔记本预装的（强烈怀疑），而且他也不知道如何卸载firefox，更改他的主页，还找不到ie在哪里（晕倒）。
对这个"无厘头"的解释，一网友评论到:
补充一条cnBeta上的评论：
再仔细一看,更为大惊失色的是 他用的即时通讯软件居然是
腾讯QQ。
更多精彩看这里。
"...he couldn't figure out how to uninstall it, change the homepage, or find where IE was."
And here we can see how user friendly Windows really is...