Steve Ballmer: Developers

MrWueb007 · 3.9M views · 2008-04-14 · 0:25

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Overview

A short clip of Steve Ballmer at a Microsoft event chanting "developers" over and over. It became a lasting internet meme.

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Posted purely as a joke whenever the word "developers" comes up in a thread about Microsoft or software.

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fnord123 · 2024-10 · Joke / meme
> Steve Ballmer: developers developers developers developers developers - [VIDEO] If you haven't seen the remix, here you go: [LINK]
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FredPret · 2024-05 · Joke / meme
The people here are also the ones who tell grandma which computer to buy. You need mass market adoption, but you really also need the "developers! developers! developers!" (or sub "power users" for "developers") [0] [0] [VIDEO]
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vlod · 2024-03 · Joke / meme
Wondering how this affects Apple employees. Back in the day, working for Apple seemed cool. (Pirate flags on building etc). Previously MSFT used to be (maybe they've turned that around?) the most hated tech company (becz of their very aggressive attitudes to competitors especially Netscape). One thing they didn't FU and is represented by the infamous sweaty Balmer video [0] of him shouting "Developers, developers, developers", is pissing of people who build on their platform. Well Apple seems to have topped that with this and other malicious compliance shenanigans in the EU. I can't every imagine developing an iOS/native app on that platform going forward. [0]: [VIDEO]
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