View Single Post Old 10-30-2012, 06:28 PM   #124 DaveNull
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though...sounds like Ballmer is really excited to announce those
blockbuster numbers from Surface and Windows 8:   Mr. Ballmer:
Numerically there's not really much that's interesting to
report. If you were to call the retailers, they would say, 'Hey,
off to a very good start.' We're out of stock a lot of places on
touch [screen] machines. I was at a dinner in San Francisco last
week, and I brought out this beautiful, very thin [touch-screen]
laptop, and they said, 'Wow, I never thought touch could be
valuable and important in a laptop.'  WSJ: Would you prefer
Apple's business model, in which it controls the hardware and
the software?  Mr. Ballmer: We like our model, as we are
evolving it. In every category Apple competes, it's the low-
volume player, except in tablets. In the PC market, obviously
the advantage of diversity has mattered