Hahaha. Steve Ballmer is a funny guy.
Ballmer: One, people value their time. Our stuff does more, and they like that. Two, people value their time, and those [free] things tend to be clunky. Let's say you think you can save $50. And then you go and waste three hours. You tell me how quick that payback is. You can sketch that out at the enterprise level as much as you can at the individual end-user level. So people value their time, and people value their capability. Frankly, people value not only the compatibility our stuff has with itself, but they value the add-ons and the third-party customization that people have done. As long as we keep pushing the pace of innovation and delivering that value, I think we have a great opportunity.
Right. For $150~ (I didn't actually buy XP mind you, but it would be the same time for install
) I had to install Windows
3 times and waste four hours doing so. Right, people value their time, which is why they don't install Windows. Linux took two tries (the first one I didn't install the un-gzipper program so it broke the package install) at a total of ~2 hours. And that was a first time install, too. Rocked?