Ballmer's ultimatum

Rick Schaut equates being a Mac guy at Microsoft with being a Who shouting at Horton, then tells this funny story:

I’ll point out that this does not mean that Mac BU is going away any time soon. Anyone familiar with the business that we do and the contribution we make to Microsoft’s bottom line is very happy that we’re here. We’re one of the more profitable business units in Microsoft. They just have a habit of forgetting that we’re here.

A few years back, Steve Ballmer sent out a company-wide memo stating the policy that no product can ship unless it first runs on Windows NT. He was pretty good-natured about it when we pointed out that this policy would have a seriously negative impact on our ability to ship Mac Office 2001 on time...

The Mac Business Unit does a fantastic job. Anyone who's used Microsoft software on a Mac realizes it's the only Microsoft software that doesn't crash.