Charles on… anything that comes along

Ah - remember this, where Steve Ballmer said billg got 4 million invitations to liberate Nigerian wealth, extend parts of his body, and so on, per day?

Turns out he was wrong. Over here, in an interview with Mike of Mike’s Journal (I think he’s something to do with eWeek), Ballmer says he got it wrong.

Meanwhile, Ballmer said he misspoke last week when he was quoted as saying Microsoft chairman Bill Gates gets about 4 million spam messages a day. “I should have said year.” he told me. “It’s 4 million a year he gets.” For the record, Ballmer says he gets a lot of spam, too, including 25,000 sent one day last week by some disgruntled guy who copied his e-mail address after it was flashed on the screen during a network TV report. Only about 10 spam e-mails a day slip through into his inbox, Ballmer said, because of filters. “I don’t use anything that isn’t commercially available to anyone or standard with our sofware,” he said. “Anyone should be able to do the same thing.”

To call Ballmer “revisionist” about the things he says is to barely scratch the surface. If he told me it was a Wednesday, I’d still check the calendar.

These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
• Oh all right then: Bill Gates get 4 million spams per day (19 November 2004; score: 137.07%)
• Bill Gates's RDF (Runtime Destruction Field) (7 January 2005; score: 61.77%)
• A question for the Microsofties out there: ever been hit by a virus? (8 October 2004; score: 61.14%)