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Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called Google Chrome a "rounding error" — 17 years later, Internet Explorer is dead, and Microsoft Edge can barely catch up | Google CEO Sundar Pichai admits that B… (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] X@piefed.world 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He also laughed at the iPhone, then years later, the windows phone devices bit the big one. He wasn’t very prescient, it seems.

[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 hours ago

I will say that I loved my Windows Phone. Way ahead of it's time.

[–] morto@piefed.social 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

He also called linux a cancer

[–] LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social 6 points 16 hours ago

Cancer spreads quite quickly. Linux adoption sadly does not.

[–] PushButton@lemmy.world 19 points 23 hours ago

Well, on that one, he's right.

We are everywhere, we are growing everyday, I don't see what can stop that from now on.

Even Microsoft is open sourcing their shit. Azure is more than 50% Linux.

Fucking Microsoft has a Linux distro now!

We are cancer, resistance is futile something something waves hand

[–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 4 points 23 hours ago

I came here to up-vote this comment.

This is what I recall as well.