Steve Ballmer: With 100M Users, Dropbox is a 'Little Startup'

[pazygozo]

[citation][nom]lradunovic77[/nom]This guy has to GTFO Microsoft...clearly have no clue about anything.[/citation]

Cut him some slack, he is just a dinosaur trying to remain relevant. Its not 1995, His time has passed.

And as a long time and faithful windows user they (microsoft) really must come up with something very good very soon if they don't want to end up being swallowed by new computing form factors and their OSes

 

[Guest]

ms went from worldwide monopoly getting sued about it every day to this..... a joke that is always 100% wrong.

they lost browser wars
they lost the search wars
they lost the email wars
they lost social networking wars
they lost os wars
they lost every console war
they didnt stand a chance in mobile or tablet

microsoft has nothing anymore except what monopolies it built in the 90s

 

[wemakeourfuture]

[citation][nom]drdoodles[/nom]ms went from worldwide monopoly getting sued about it every day to this..... a joke that is always 100% wrong.they lost browser warsthey lost the search warsthey lost the email warsthey lost social networking warsthey lost os warsthey lost every console warthey didnt stand a chance in mobile or tabletmicrosoft has nothing anymore except what monopolies it built in the 90s[/citation]

Exactly.

2 products produce 85-88% of its profits for the past 3 decades now (1990's, 2000's, 2010's), Windows & Office.

 

[dalethepcman]

[citation][nom]drdoodles[/nom]blah blah blah[/citation]

I guess selling more Xbox 360's than Sony sold PlayStation 3's means that product is a failure.
I guess having 90% of computers worldwide running windows means they lost that too.

@wemakeourfuture congratulations, you realize a software company makes most of its money by selling software. You sir are a genius.

 

[Guest]

Go home Ballmer your drunk...I mean dumb.

 

[Guest]

*you're*

 

[IAmVortigaunt]

[citation][nom]diddo[/nom]It may turn out to be an advantage as soon as users start figuring out 80% of development of major companies is about improving walls in the garden and don't let you files, contact, mails etc to flawlessly flow from you android phone, your ipad and your winpc.Once upon a time there were proprietary file formats lockin, now the game is pwning users data, not helping them to jump fences with competitors.imho, if well played, dropbox neutrality may be something to use profitably with some segments of users.[/citation]

You do realize that MS makes Skydrive apps for Mac, iOS, and Android, in addition to Windows and Windows Phone, right? Where's the lock-in?

 

[SneakySnake]

[citation][nom]dalethepcman[/nom]I guess selling more Xbox 360's than Sony sold PlayStation 3's means that product is a failure.I guess having 90% of computers worldwide running windows means they lost that too.@wemakeourfuture congratulations, you realize a software company makes most of its money by selling software. You sir are a genius.[/citation]

As of like a month ago, the PS3 has sold more then the 360, and the PS3 has also had a year less on the market

 

[downhill911]

Not only he is a total idiot but also person who let and is letting him to even work there.

 

[diddo]

[citation][nom]IAmVortigaunt[/nom]You do realize that MS makes Skydrive apps for Mac, iOS, and Android, in addition to Windows and Windows Phone, right? Where's the lock-in?[/citation]
Yes, and look the mess they did with 8 and Office 2013 Squarepants.
If you pout all the eggs in a basket...
Some users just don't trust companies with interests conflicting with their freedom of choice, and will stay on a platform that have no interest in keeping premium features for ones using the platform they want you to use.

 

[virtualban]

[citation][nom]Maxx_Power[/nom]Did the protective fat in his brain descend into his body ?[/citation]
He needs to upgrade his fat into ntfs

 

[The_Trutherizer]

Whatever. Saying that 100million users is a little startup compared to a 200million users app is base understatement. It's also bad style. Balmer is just standing on his hill crowing "We're the biggest! We're the biggest!"Sure MS has more clout, but dropbox is not small by any measure.

 

[CrArC]

He also criticized Android by stating that Google's mobile platform can only be used by a computer scientist.

This made me laugh at the time, but considering the vast quantity of utterly moronic app reviews by all the thick-skulled Android-toting knuckle scrapers that pollute the Play store, it's clearly not the case.

I do remember when things were a little more like Ballmer said, though. Better times.

 

[blppt]

As of like a month ago, the PS3 has sold more then the 360, and the PS3 has also had a year less on the market

And if you factor in the higher rate of failure (especially the early model 360s), the gap grows even wider, due to replacement sales.

One thing MS has over Sony to this day is higher rate of software sales (profit) versus the console itself, which i believe both still are taing a loss on. They also have the added revenue of a pay online service, which Sony offers for free (not counting the non-mandatory Playstation Plus, or whatever its called).

On another note, I always LOL everytime tom's posts a Ballmer article and they use that handsome picture. He *is* pretty much the Rex Ryan of the computer industry.

 

[onakander]

Whenever I hear Ballmer speak I immediately think about Kevin Malone.

 

[ttcboy]

He also criticized Android by stating that Google's mobile platform can only be used by a computer scientist.

Dude !!!! Look at ur Win 8 UI first.

 

[wemakeourfuture]

[citation][nom]dalethepcman[/nom]I guess selling more Xbox 360's than Sony sold PlayStation 3's means that product is a failure.I guess having 90% of computers worldwide running windows means they lost that too.@wemakeourfuture congratulations, you realize a software company makes most of its money by selling software. You sir are a genius.[/citation]

The division that the Xbox is under has lost over $3 billion over the past decade. The Xbox makes nothing for Microsoft compared to Playstation for Sony.

In face, Xbox is near a loss overall for Microsoft since its inception.

Yes they are a software company, last time I checked their Online Services division has lost even more billions according to their SEC filings.

They are a software company that make 85-88% of their profits off 2 products, which is fine. But when they start to criticize and attack other companies outside those 2 products its extremely foolish.

Funny how a software company has consistently lost billions on their online services, hardware ventures (Xbox, Kin phone, Microsoft Phones, XP tablets, Zune), etc. yet they have the nerve to mock or belittle others.

 

[JackFrost860]

i feel sorry for SB. No amount of money can fix that!

 

[ZakTheEvil]

It boggles the mind why this retard is running Microsoft, or should I say "ruining" Microsoft.

 

[folem]

I do think that Ballmer is full of shit on this one. Most people that "have a Skydrive" probably don't use it, they only have it because they are forced to by having an Outlook.com email (previously Hotmail), Windows Live messenger, or Windows 8.

However I will say that Skydrive is the best freely available cloud storage out there (not counting specialized ones like Amazon's cloud player). Dropbox's desktop app is excellent, but its license is scary and Google Drive's desktop app crashed frequently leaving corrupted files that I couldn't delete. Not to mention that Microsoft's web apps beat the hell out of Google's, yes even the omnipresent Gmail.