Fortune Magazine posted this interview with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer last week. And was he smug about the recently confirmed PS3 delay? Well, see what you think from this choice quotation:
"In every other generation, the first guy to 10 million consoles was the number one seller in the generation... Did we just get an even better opportunity to be the first guy to 10 million? Yeah, of course we did." Later he says, "I think we are absolutely in the game for the market position it would be nice to have."
I hate the way corporate big-wigs in the technology sector have started to mimic trendy young Wired writers, using hip slang and trash talk rather than doing what they're supposed to do - i.e. boring us senseless with conservative profit forecasts.
Anyway, the 'sort of on track' remark refers to Microsoft's aim of selling 5 million Xbox 360s by June. 'Sort of on track?' doesn't the first half of that phrase completely undermine the second? For example, if a train driver announced that his vehicle was 'sort of on track' would you clamber aboard? Via The Inquirer
