Ballmer: Google leads because 'they did it right first'

It brings up images of Ballmer beating his kids because he found them using a friend's iPod or something similar. But that's mainly due to Ballmer's public image of a personality bordering on manic obsession with Microsoft.

Its also worrying that he does not want the best products for his family but only the ones in the Microsoft family. Somehow he seems to place his image as Microsoft's CEO above what his closest people think about him.

Strange bloke!

When a person talks that way, they've either "drunk the Kool Aid" or are trying to get you to drink the Kool Aid. Either way, you have cause for concern -- whether they are (fanatically) naive or disingenuous.

EDIT: Now having read the article, I don't see his comments as being quite that strong, despite the use of the term "religiously". But I'll leave my prior comment: When people rule out the competition without good (or any) reason, it's a warning sign.