Ballmer: 'Vista is great for consumers'

I don't know if I would go so far as to say that he looks "ill at ease" in this little video. He did look about as stiff as someone can, and not actually be under the mind control of some alien invader.

At lot of things about that video got my hackles up. The softball questions, for one. The obviously rehearsed answers, and Ballmer's bored-to-the-point-of-zombification for another. Of course, the total re-spin of every question would make anyone mad. But the worst thing was the little curl of Nerd-Hair in the upper right corner of the frame. Together with the short-sleeve and the awkward hand gestures, one could safely tag the interviewer as a Microsoft Programmer.

Consumers of numbing drugs, I'd say.

Can't CEO Ballmer afford socks that are long enough?

Howcome random Josephine Schmoes can create nice smooth YouTube videos, all full of music and action, and CNet can't even post a simple interview that doesn't stutter and twitch?

So many questions, so few answers.

Consumers of the MS marketing hype that refuse to see reality?

Oh...that's what you said...

Doggone it, tc, I had the word "Valium" ready in my head, and you beat me to it. >:-P

I think it's a deliberate ploy, so that people will underestimate him.

tracyanne - very perceptive. These guys have mob mentality, be on guard.

OK gus, then you can say Thorazine.

This "interview" is such an obvious staged set piece. Barf. Some say that RMS and ESR are repelling. I'll take unwashed eccentricities over finely-polished evil any day.

Balmer always reminds me of one of those evil muppets from the movie "The Dark Crystal". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083791/