{"id":9980,"date":"2009-07-16T10:30:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T14:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hothardware.com\/News\/Ballmer-Laughs-at-Google-Challenge"},"modified":"2009-07-16T10:30:56","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T14:30:56","slug":"ballmer-laughs-at-google-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=9980","title":{"rendered":"Ballmer Laughs at Google Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer laughed off the very idea of Google doing an operating system, much less it being any sort of challenge to Microsoft’s love-it-or-hate-it Windows franchise. Being rather coy, Ballmer called Chrome “Interesting.” In full: “I will be respectful, who knows what this thing is? To me, the Chrome OS thing is highly interesting. It won’t happen for a year and a half and they already announced an operating system.” The last was a reference to Android, Google’s announced operating system for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer laughed off the very idea of Google doing an operating system, much less it being any sort of challenge to Microsoft’s love-it-or-hate-it Windows franchise. Being rather coy, Ballmer called Chrome “Interesting.” In full: “I will be respectful, who knows what this thing is? To me, the Chrome OS thing is highly interesting. It won’t happen for a year and a half and they already announced an operating system.” The last was a reference to Android, Google’s announced operating system for Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}