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Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer is not known for a lack of enthusiasm or hyperbole. It’s surprising, then, to see him downplaying the expected effect of Windows 7’s release on new system sales. Reuters quoted Ballmer on Wednesday at a news conference in Munich as saying “There will be a surge of PCs but it will probably not be huge.” Certainly this is not a doom and gloom statement, but considering the source it’s also not the inflated PR-speak that we’ve come to expect.
Does this mark a new approach for Ballmer? Are the days of the monkey-boy dance, or the developers, developers, developers chant gone? Or will Steve return to his shilling ways soon enough? Only time will tell.
A video of Ballmer selling Windows 1.0 like it’s a used car is embedded after the break.
[via X-bit labs]
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