Ballmer should have cried 'foul'
ZDNet | at | by Mike
After getting nowhere with the European Union's competition commissioner last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer offered a few humble comments and then headed home to await the worst.
What he instead should have said is, "To heck with Mario Monti."
To be sure, the tangle with Janet Reno's Justice Department over antitrust charges in the 1990s taught Microsoft's brass to avoid making inflammatory statements in public. And so to prevent worsening an already bad situation, Ballmer dutifully stayed on message. Word to Microsoft public relations: In this case, the politic thing would have been for Ballmer to wrap himself in the American flag and cry foul.