Steve Ballmer Reveals His Secret Twitter Account 166
alphadogg writes "'Quietly' is not a word that would usually describe any action performed by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. But quietly is exactly how Ballmer has conducted himself on Twitter, a site he joined over a year ago unbeknownst to most of the technology world. Just a few days ago, Ballmer was speaking in Kiev, Ukraine, and according to a transcript on the Microsoft website, Ballmer responded to an audience member who asked 'when are you going to start tweeting?' Ballmer said: 'I have a Twitter account. I'm just very private about who I really am on Twitter.'"
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I was being a little facetious, thanks for picking up on that, but the ribbon bar (of which I'm no fan) is a bit more than a change of a menu bar with changing icons. There are interactions that can be made right on the ribbon bar that make it a bit more than just a menu bar + tool bar.
Fundamentally, I agree that any tech savvy user will see it as just a re-worked menu and/or more useful tool bar, but it is a tremendous functional change in the way the programs operate beyond the main input window (e.g., the Word document). It's 80% eye-candy changes, 20% rearrangement, and 90% more annoying.
More to the point...it's what everyone (not just parents) notices is different in the newer versions of Office, since it's so present, and there's not an easy way to opt out of it.
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Here are some numbers not from someone's ass. [businessinsider.com]
Windows and Office are major, Server is a rather distant third (judging by history, it looks like the the top of the purple part is mistakenly cut off at the end), online services are a loss, and "entertainment and devices" is a small positive (at the moment.)
And, for fun, here's a similar graph for Apple. [businessinsider.com]