“Google’s not a real company. It's a house of cards.”

— Steve Ballmer

2005 court records as quoted by Kurt Eichenwald in Microsoft's Lost Decade http://vanityfair.com/news/business/2012/08/microsoft-lost-mojo-steve-ballmer Vanity Fair (August 2012) <br class="br">Attributed

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