Apparently in Ballmerese “short order” means “at some indeterminate point in the future,” because here we are at close of business and the company hasn’t announced anything except that it plans for an announcement. “With the right circumstances, it’ll happen,” Ballmer told The Wall Street Journal. “Without the right circumstances it won’t happen.”
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“We oughta know something–we oughta announce something in very short order,” Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer said of the company’s acquisition standoff with Yahoo (YHOO) this morning.
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Sort of like their recent product releases eh?
Posted by Mac Beach at May 1st, 2008 at 10:30 pmIs Ballmer channeling Yogi Berra?
Next he’ll be saying to his drones, “We’ve come to a fork in the road. Take it!”
Posted by Eric Welch at May 2nd, 2008 at 7:57 am