We rarely cover Microsoft garbage, becuse who really cares.  However, I couldn’t pass up the recent comments that Steve Ballmer made concerning print media.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has now gone out on the limb of stupidity and made outlandish predictions in a recent discussion with Washington Post editors, the biggest of which, by far, is his proclamation that he thinks there’ll be “no media consumption left in 10 years that is not delivered over an IP network.”

He clarified that that means there “will be no newspapers, no magazines that are delivered in paper form. Everything gets delivered in an electronic form.”

First off, I rememeber these predictions back in 1999.  They were stupid then and they are stupid now.  No matter how prolific the internet gets, it has already be proven that people prefer to read the physical media.  This is not going to change in the foreseeable future.

Microsoft, and Ballmer in particular, are known for their wacky predicitons that generally fall flat.. remember when Ballmer said that the iPhone would fail … or even better when Gates said that the spam problem would be solved by 2006…

How about you all focus your attention on fixing Vista… that’d be great..