Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says 1997 investment into Apple was ‘the

Steve Ballmer is back in the public eye for the first time in a while, appearing on Bloomberg this morning to talk about the technology industry and he had a lot to say about other companies.

Ballmer made the comments in an interview with Bloomberg this week.

Ballmer wasn’t finished: “Anybody who ever left Microsoft to Amazon, we could count on them coming back within a year or two, because it’s not a great place to work to do innovative stuff as an engineer”.

Speaking of Apple’s lofty position at the top of the tech tree, Ballmer said: “Microsoft will give them a good run for their money”, before adding “nobody else has really tries to compete with them anymore, really seriously, in hardware”. I believe the same is true at Amazon.

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has made a few interesting claims about Amazon, and we are confident the leading Internet retail company will not take kindly to his words.

“Hard-driving, people are really focused on changing the world”, he said of Microsoft.

“A Surface Book is not an iMac or an iPad, but it’s a new category”. “Who is really going after the Mac?”

He then went to say he believes Microsoft is only company capable of competing with Apple on hardware. And Microsoft really is the only one that’s got a software and a hardware capability. Particular praise was directed at Microsoft’s new Surface Book, the convertible premium laptop created to rival the MacBook Pro by offering over twice the power and the ability to handle any kind of professional task.

Seeing Ballmer acting like this makes us wish he was still working for Microsoft because we miss it. It also shows that the man is still very much passionate about Microsoft despite what many might think of his reign as CEO. You could basically say Microsoft and Samsung.

His comments about Amazon followed an August article in The New York Times that mentions employees crying at their desks and an evaluation process that encourages criticism of co-workers. Who’s going after the iPad?

Apple designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s Biggest Selection. “It’s an innovative category”, said Ballmer. And anyone making comparisons in Surface Book reviews is making comparisons with the MacBook Pro, too.