Ballmer Threatens to “Kill” Google

According to court documents, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO, threatened to “kill” Google and “bury” its chief executive. When Mark Lucovsky, a Microsoft engineer, told Ballmer that he was defecting to Google, Lucovsky claimed that Ballmer said: “F**king Eric Schmidt is a f***ing p****. I’m going to f***ing bury that guy. I have done it before, I will do it again. I’m going to f****ing kill Google.”

I’m sure he was speaking metaphorically. Lucovsky said that Ballmer then picked up a chair and tossed it across the room.

Posted by on September 6th, 2005 at 9:38 am


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