Comments on: Microtard who botched Yahoo & oversaw Vista is leaving the company. Shocking, right?

By: Applonymous

Applonymous — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:29:15 +0000

“Gaming is a huge industry, it’s only one of the areas that MS has successfully grown it’s market….”

…. while burning through $billions and still drowning in red ink.

I think I’ll be shorting Juniper and buying Cisco….

By: RealJoeThibault

RealJoeThibault — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:45:42 +0000

“The future for Microsoft looks lucrative, predictable and boring.” I’ll agree with the lucrative and predictable, but right now I think they are really setting themselves up (same with Sony) to go head to head with Apple; especially in music sales. Rock Band anyone?

Gaming is a huge industry, it’s only one of the areas that MS has successfully grown it’s market. Until the xbox all they had was some lamo PC games like flight sim, now they have Bungie and all of the fanatics that follow it…I think we’ll see a lot more branching out (I just hope the new MS bosses are as good as Billy was at maneuvering new territory).

By: Fake Ken Xie

Fake Ken Xie — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:36:02 +0000

Juniper is one of our competitors. That will certainly make my job a lot easier.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:29:56 +0000

You know, Fake TIny Tim has a point, everything is just a little too Fake Steve. I bet that Real Steve is behind this. First Real Dan Lyons leaves–or is forced to leave– Forbes under suspicious circumstances, then “The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs” closes shop, and now we have the Real Dan blog. Come on everybody, take off the blinders! Real Steve is finally getting his payback!

By: steveballmer

steveballmer — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:21:21 +0000

He’s a great guy and we all wish him well!

By: FBO

FBO — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:27:50 +0000

Perhaps it’s still satire, Tiny.

But Josh, that’s your headline, the Smash-o-matic. Without that, it would be like going to see Sonny and Cher and not hearing “I’ve got you, Babe.” Yeah, that’s right, I did a Sonny and Cher reference.

Oh wait, that doesn’t mesh with my opinion well though. I agree, as long as he brings the funny, it’s all good, and this’ll just purge some of the ‘tards who don’t appreciate the humor in it. I actually admire it, it’s Dan pretending to be himself, however crazy that sounds.

To me, Fake Steve was a diversion from the boredom in the office. I used to visit sites for tech news, and they were boring. FSJ used to give me a crazy take on tech stories, and some humor stories too. Like Andrea Jung, I could care less who she is in real life (note: please don’t hit me Andrea), but here, or there, I found out things I would have never read before. Sure, the political stuff got a bit boring, but it certainly was topical (And remember kids, on November 4th, a vote for Barry is a vote for America!). As sad as it might be, I relied on FSJ for my tech news, and so far, it seems to be carrying over to the RD blog, which is good, since even though I find it interesting, I can’t stand reading the crap out there.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:52:36 +0000

I’m glad you came back and I think you are as funny as you’ve always been. Please don’t listen to these morons and complainers saying you should go back to Fake Steve. These are the same kind of people that go to a Gallagher show just for the Smash-o-matic. Let them just sit in their plastic capes now and feel stupid as they are left dry. I think it can be said the public has no idea what it wants, if you were Fake Steve for too long they would complain about you being “one-note” and lacking change. Then you change and they claim they want the old stuff.

I might like this blog even better if you keep up your Apple Store experiences like you did, I can see myself enjoying living vicariously through you. Plus what other journalist is trash talking these powerful figures in such a funny and honest way as you?

By: Fake Tiny Tim

Fake Tiny Tim — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:52:05 +0000

I’m going to be the first to call ’sussed’ on this. There is no way Dan Lyons is writing this blog. It’s somebody pretending to be Dan Lyons and copying Fake Steve’s style.

You can tell. It’s just a bit TOO much like Fake Steve. All this tard stuff and pointless swearing is so clearly NOT DAN.

By: john

john — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:46:03 +0000

Use a public character, take on that person’s persona, please . . .

By: Boggle

Boggle — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:27:23 +0000

Dude. You were funnier as Steve…