Ballmerese

Steve Ballmer seems to have been taking lessons in public speaking from George Bush:

We have to grow what I called our core. Core doesn’t match segments. That kind of threw people off a little bit. But everybody in their heart and soul kind of knows what our core is. It has nothing to do with Windows and Office…. In our core, we’ve got a lot to do. Windows and Internet Explorer—Windows is a product that’s got to be watered every—periodically. We’ve gone a bigger gap than I would like to go, Windows and IE. There’s a lot of innovations still coming in Internet browsing, in hardware. There are so many things we need to do and if we don’t keep Windows fresh, Windows will not continue to flourish. The same with our core Office product.

See “Penetrating Ballmervision” in ZDnet for a brave attempt to understand what the dancing monkey is on about.