Martha's Vineyard, Marthas Vineyard, Martha Vineyard, Martha Vinyard, Martha's Vinyard, Marthas Vinyard, Martha's Vineyard Times, largest-circulated weekly newspaper on Martha's Vineyard

Technically Speaking

Musings on The Martha’s Vineyard Times website and the internet in general.

Meet Steve Ballmer

May 22, 2008 – 12:57 am

Today, on abcnews.com, I saw a video of Steve Ballmer getting egged during a talk at Corvinus University in Budapest. For those that don’t know, Steve Ballmer is the CEO for Microsoft. Call it jealousy or a bout of plain ole’ immaturity, but seeing eggs, almost casually, tossed at #43 on Forbes billionaire list made me grin. It also reminded me of a couple of other Steve Ballmer videos that I saw a few years ago.

Being the CEO of Microsoft has definitely made him a wealthy man but it also seems to have kept him pretty happy. Here is a clip of him being introduced at some sort of function or party for Microsoft’s 25th anniversary. Yes, he does say “Give it up for me” somewhere in there.

For more proof that he is a very enthusiastic employee, here’s another video. Gotta love the fist pumping. I’m not exactly sure where or when this one took place, but I think it was a little on the warm side. Just a guess.

The guy is definitely a character and there are more clips out there. Just do a search on YouTube.

While usually pricey and sometimes buggy, I must admit that, for the most part, I like Microsoft’s stuff. But the jury’s still out on their personnel.