I promise, I will get to writing about the Red Sox, and Comicon and other stuff soon. But I HAD to drop a note regarding Steve Ballmer's D8 discussion, Summarized here on Apple Insider.

Because it's sad:

It's like watching your arch-rival sports team dwindle to a shell of it's former self. While there is a asense of victory, there is also a twinge of sadness, because they were, well, your arch rival after all.

Again, and I think this is the consistant theme to all of my Ballmer posts, he's talking about everyone else, he casting stones at Apple, Nokia, RIM. Lot's of "I think they're intersting" and stuff like that.

No buzz

No Microsoft centrism

No Excitement

No sense that there is true innovation on the horizon for Microsoft.

Buying Microsoft is the equivalent of going to the grocery store an buying milk, or cheese. It's plain, it's ordinary. It's exactly what Bill Gates envisioned, a PC in every pot- they are ubiquitous, to the point of utter boredom.

Jobs talked about innovation in his D8 discussion, he has always talked about innovation, in 1983, in 1997, in 2001, 2004, 2007 and now. His life is built around the drive to create. Ballmer appears content to drive sales, or at least try to until what he is selling, the Windows Platform, becomes obsolete and unusable. Time and again, Apple has made the hard choices to upgrade and adapt since Steve's return.

Sadly, the same cannot be said for Microsoft.

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