Windows Vista: Is it irritating you?

Published: October 13, 2007, 11:24 am

Tags: feminism gender, politics news, technology web, steve ballmer, windows vista, yvonne genovese

Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer's appeard at the Gartner Inc. Symposium ITxpo conference in Orlando earlier this week. He was interviewed on stage during a conference forum by Yvonne Genovese and fellow analyst David Smith. Genovese told Ballmer she'd purchased Vista on the recommendation of her 13 year old daughter. She used it for two days and reinstalled Windows XP. Many male bloggers, like these, had a great time playing this up as an outraged mom laying into the good-natured Steve Ballmer, who took it like a man and pointed out the security features of Vista in rebuttal. It seems to me that Genovese created a storm simply because she had the nerve to mention to Ballmer that many people are not crazy in love with Windows Vista—while being female. According to the male blogger interpretation of the conversation between Genovese and Ballmer, it was all about Ballmer having his hands full with an attack from outraged mom. No notice was taken of the fact that this was a

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