Steve Ballmer at .NET presentation: Developers (HQ, Extended)
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One of Steve Ballmer's defining personality traits was his ability to motivate an entire crowd of techies to finish any job, or simply to have celebratory fun like at the 25th anniversary event with Ballmer jumping around on-stage screaming with excitement, proclaiming his love for the company. One moment in particular he would become well known for was his chanting of developers during a .NET presentation in either 1999 or 2000, with very visible sweat on his light blue shirt. Since then, the clip has become widespread even before CZcams opened its doors and has even been remixed in a number of ways.
For the longest time, this clip was only available in many varying levels of lower quality, and only featured him chanting about developers for a nearly 20-second duration. That was until recently as of this writing that an extended 60-second version was unearthed featuring much better audio and visual quality than what was out there before, and also providing more context about what took place at the event. Some adjustments to the original source were made for this clip, mainly correcting the aspect ratio and resolution to be in true 4:3 with no black bars. - Věda a technologie
5:30 PM. I was finishing an unregulated game of croquet with some of my buddies from the Eastern side of town. I don't know what we were really doing, I guess it was being played more like obstacle course hockey. The grass was really long, so what was the point of trying to play seriously? We never called a winner either way. Hey, it's fun to break the rules.
We don't really have cars, so we mainly commute via a little trail we paved out in the woods. I asked Gerald, "hey, you wanna go find some more worms before we go fishing tomorrow?" The two of us set off trying to find the usual spot where a plethora of these tend to turn up. I brought out my jar and hand shovel, and Gerald started furiously tapping the ground with his feet. It wasn't long before they started turning up as if they were the very same fish frantically going after said worms.
"Whadaya call this, Gerald? Jackpot? Hole in one? Bullseye, or maybe a home run?" Gerald looked at me with contempt towards my hot words. It's as if he was about to grow a beard in a matter of seconds. We picked out the beefiest worms with our bare fingers, and as we've come to expect, our jar was already full. It was starting to get a little bit dark, but we figured we could squeeze in a bit of a hike.
Down by the creek, I found something really unusual. What looked to be plastic litter was covered up in leaves. I brushed them off, and couldn't believe my luck. I found a Dell Centrino laptop running what looked to be some weird alternative operating system called "Ubuntu 6.06 LTS". It looked so alien, and I was hesitant about the use of anything Linux because it broke one of my friend's iPods, but I figured I may as well give it a shot. It turned out it was a lot more intuitive than I thought! I could do most of anything I had already been accustomed to in Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, and as I browsed through the help index, I found that this operating system was literally being given away for free. A free operating system? I would have never guessed such a thing existed.
Suddenly, I found a giant figure in the distance. It looked to be of a flat form held up by legs, yet not quite that of a quadruped, given the back of its body was held up by only an elongated fin of its tail. In fact, I'm not sure it resembled anything I had ever seen. It was purple with bright blue eyes, and its appearance conflicted between being an intimidating monster and a total dork. I figured it would be best that I just ignore it.
So, I did some more things on that laptop, maybe try out some of the default GNOME 2 games on there, and just as I was getting sucked into all of this, I saw the figure get closer. I wasn't sure whether to call it a dragon or some oddball fish, though this closer view seemed to lean more towards the latter. I had contemplated making a run for it, but I couldn't just leave my friend behind. I tried asking casually out in the open, "Gerald, it's getting late, you think we should get going now?" but my voice trembled a bit, which got me worried that it would surely expose my fear to this unknown figure. No one answered back.
I tried soothing my nerves by continuing to use the laptop, which kind of worked for a while... until I felt something breathing heavily behind my neck. I was tempted to not look behind me, but then I heard some deep voice slip out, "what do you think?" I subconsciously turned my head, and there it was, that same bizarre fish figure out in the distance, now facing me directly at point blank. Its head was somewhat larger than my own.
Just as I was about to say something, that fish remarked "you're not getting enough protein." I knew I hadn't eaten in a while, but by the looks of it, this thing's idea of "protein" is a Cheeto shaped like the AOL logo that he wanted to give me. I heard weird Cheeto shapes can fetch a lot of money on eBay, so I didn't really want to eat it. But more than that, I was extremely skeptical of taking things off of a fishy fin. I don't have any hand sanitizer with me!
The giant fish then spoke to me softly "Just look it up when you get home, you can burn it to a bootable CD-R easily!" and then he put his fin on my shoulder. But at this point, I didn't want to have anything from him. He was even more creepy trying to be my friend than he was when he looked nothing more than a sea-land monster out in the distance obscured by the trees. I made a break for it. "GERALD! GERALD!!"
Miraculously, I found Gerald just standing there out of the woods, and told him all about this metallic-looking fish creature, and he flatly replied, "Oh, that's Robby. He helps me with boat fishing." I hadn't paid attention to what I was doing from there, but it was something among the lines of screaming that it's gonna kill us all, grabbing his shoulders and shaking him back and forth, and getting slapped perfectly in the cheek. "You watch too many horror films, shorty..." Could he have had a point? Probably not.
Either way, when I finally settled back home to cool off, one thing was certain. I wasn't about to try Ubuntu anytime soon. Instead, I tried openSUSE. It was wonderful!
Also, please refrain from your unfunny repetitive cocaine river remarks, and also the "95 dance" is fake because it was an unrelated sales event
bro what
No te entiendo
I ain't reading all that, but I'll give you a like anyways.
Can't wait for gnome 4
@@galuademg6958I ain't reading all that shit either. I enjoy reading but CZcams comments are 99.99% garbage.😁😁😁
I think he just did a line of code before giving this speech
Underrated
based
I swear I read "cocaine" instead of code 😂
More like an array.
@@offspringfan89 He probably needed some codeine to calm himself down after this rousing speech!
He looked one more developers away from a heart attack
Ffs 😂
😂😂
More like he's one more "developers" away from having a BSOD
@@ChichaGad Based and hard coded.
Underrated comment and thread replies.
Steve Ballmer: the emphatic personification of “10% inspiration, 90% perspiration”
Oh my god, I can't stop laughing!!! He is such a buffoon!
Even with that windows is king by a large number
In French I would say 90% transpiration
@@jean-charlescouturier5535 LE* transpiration
This comment made my day!
I like how he says "key" three separate times and all three are off-key in entirely different ways.
I like how you've pointed this out. Cracks me up!
He looks like he did a key before the presentation. 😅
The sweat and voice cracks do it for me everytime
*The KEeeEEeEEeeEy*
I was like "in a Vannnnn down by the river" haha never noticed that voice inflection before 😄
0:06 qUeStIoN! 🐓 😂😂😂
Developers developers developers developers developers developers developers…. YEEES
😂😂😂
Imagine following this guy into battle, like 3000 years ago. Ballmer was a man out of time.
He would likely die of dehydration before he takes his sword out
Following?!? Ballmer is the kind of leader that sends the peons to die for some ego dispute while he stays in his mansion dancing with courtesans
THESE ARE DEVELOPERS!!!!!!!!
I'm a developer and probably the biggest coward ever
Nah! Way too many red flags. Only an idiot would follow this clown into battle.
This guy is THE most American manager I've ever witnessed
Ans a stupid one at that.
what Larry Oracle videos, that can change your mind
@@SacreDroguy must have 160 iq and is super rich. U may rethink that
but his failure with Windows Phone screwed him up.
You didn’t know all this tech was developed primarily in America? 😂
It's like he's playing a Chris Farley character
jesus christ i cant unsee that now💀💀💀
Weeeeeelllllllll ladee-frickin-dah!
If Farley was alive, he'd play him in a movie
brooo I just wrote that. I said I wonder if he was living in a van down by the riverrrrrr hahaha
Any minute now he'll lean his guts over and utters a stern warning of living in a vaaan down by the riverrr.
Wish presentations could still be like this
more sweating like this one?
Agreed
Less fake corporate manufactured tone of voice, more realism
@@zabrak999The democratic lead for the 2004 presidency had his campaign assasinated by the media for doing exactly this. Its been all downhill since then.
@@bovoluca82 are people suddenly just not allowed to sweat?
@@bovoluca82It’s got character. You wouldn’t catch Apple letting a guy looking like this at WWDC in a million years
I didn't see this mentioned in the comments, but apparently Ballmer actually had the flu during this event, hence the sweating (woke up that morning with a 100 degree fever).
According to an article from TechRadar, that looks to be the case.
www.techradar.com/news/computing/pc/big-brash-and-bullish-how-ballmer-s-personality-kept-him-at-microsoft-s-helm-1176352
Definitely makes a lot of sense considering, even in his most hyped up presentations, he’s never been this sweaty since.
And by flu you mean high in cocaine.
That's just what the guy rich enough to afford a publicity team says after they have freaking relapsed right before going on stage to cya. Like Eminem supposedly had pneumonia Christmas in 2007 but really he almost died of opiate overdose. You know what I'm saying bro
I mean, I'm positive that you are probably telling the accurate truth, but I remember enjoying the crud out of this when it happened and there was all sorts of songs and stuff. And it's just funnier to imagine the dudes a coked out maniac. Even though of course he's probably just a dude with the flu doing a weird job of a odd presentation, but you know that's not fun. You only get so much in this life man. Let me imagine that he's an insane ranting freak who thought this was the best presentation in the world while he was just running 200 BPM off of a freaking double line of rails haha
"We're going to do the.net framework and then we're going to run the country and then we're going to conquer Eastern Mongolia and make the tallest goddamn tower the world has ever seen and we're going to sacrifice short virgins we're going to sacrifice tall virgins!!!"
I mean, I just want to believe that you know.
@@chatsidefiresI'd love to go ppl watching with you dude...we could have a freaking blast! 😂🧐😵💫🫨
This is actually insane levels of motivation, I should listen to this every day before opening an IDE
Insane levels of Cocaine
😂😂
Better yet, modify your IDE to play “developers..” on startup
Ultimate gigachad programmer move
DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!
Dude is making millions here, I'd be pumped up too
This is the reason why I spent my life savings to open a one hour photo business. Worst misunderstanding of my life.
underrated comment
Sounds like a career in photography just didn't develop for you
This comment is underexposed
But your ❤ was in the right place
@@brownky3 It's a bit too negative
Somehow I missed the best video of 2022.
"The keEEeeEEey to success"
Well, be it this spot or another he found the key.
That shirt is hanging on for dear life
I can't believe this iconic moment IN HIGH DEFINITION has less than 10k views.
now 21k.
the issue is that there are still artifacts because it was shot on videotape, and the guy who uploaded this didn't take the extra step of de-interlacing it
is just a new upload
There's another upload with 6.1m views and one with 3.3m lol
@@somedonkus69420 but are they in high definition
I was in the audience when Steve presented this. This guy has an incredible sales drive.
If you don't mind me asking, how old are you?
@@Ducktility He was born before electricity was invented
He was great at sales, but ran Microsoft into the ground
Based on this presentation, definitely not a guy I'd like to meet or work for.
My dad's uncle is Bill Gates, my nephew is Steve Ballmer and my mama was Ella Fitzgerald. Actually I'm a fourteen-year-old can you click the like button and give me money?
I like the fence they put up to contain him. That's some real forward thinking. Something that is so lacking in this day and age.
To avoid him from getting into the crowd and smacked some one in the face while shouting "Developers! " 😂😂😂😂
Corralling, one might say XD
I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone so sweaty while delivering a corporate speech about software
"Developers" was a *code word* for backstage to get the his coke tray ready for a top up...
Business plan:
1. Become a coked-up sweaty bald man.
2. ???
3. Profit.
The voice cracks; The button up shirt with an Olympic sized pool of sweat; The pure energy of Steve Ballmer. I wish Microsoft should’ve kill to have that kind of motivation nowadays and bring back the good ol’ days.
There were never any good old days with microsoft, there were criminal days with driving out competitors, and almost all days were stupid days because of the junk that this company produced.
Balmer is the peak manifestation of the absurdity of our societies and how fake the "meritocracy" and economy we're living in are. This ignorant fool is a billionaire who turned Microsoft into a rat race circus.
There’s quite an easy way to give someone that level of motivation. You give them the same percentage of the company as Steve Ballmer owns.
@@ifedhimspaghetti In this day and age, it'll just make people lazier and more prone to procrastination.
@@parlor3115 I don't think so. We're the same stock. Worth a try, anyway. Not like anything else is working is it
80s to early 2000s. The best decades human kind have gone through. Unforgettable, unbeatable times.
💯💯💯
For someone that lived through the 80's and 2000's (but not the 90's), I agree with you. Those were the best decade.
@@TheAngryIntellect-where were you in the 90s lol
We peaked in 1998.
Oh yeah? Tell that to the humans living in Afghanistan, they were getting slaughtered in a proxy war between USSR and US
DEVELOPERS!
DEVELOPERS!
DEVELOPERS!
DEVELOPERS!
Developers!
DEVELOPERS !!
And it's still true to this day. Developers, developers, developers, developers.
Yep, still true for Microsoft and ten times more true for Apple.
Deodorant…Deodorant…Deodorant…Deodorant..Deodorant
Nope. Anti-prespirant.
I couldn't tell if it was just a very strange shirt or sweat
Steve got a sweat suit cocktail going on
deodorant can't save that man
okay bro@@TheDeepExplorer
I can't believe I'm seeing this a video quality that isn't 240p. Nice find!
you can thank the developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers YYYEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHH
I've shown this clip and other Ballmer clips to my basketball team. Just to show them what intensity and passion look like from someone who is NOT afraid to be on the outside what he feels on the inside.
Easier to surface your inner self when you perspire that much
For how goofy this speech is, he's not wrong. This is why the current .NET ecosystem is a pleasure to work with for developers.
Developers!
One of the greatest moments in tech history 😂😂
this video, gates and balmer dancing on stage, and gates getting pie in the face are definitely funny
one of the greatest memes in tech history
Yes he realized the key to success was to empower the ones who actually develop the software.
He was right
This is my favorite video to watch when I begin to question my carrer choice
On God!
I had to pause this video immediately because I laughed at the sheer size of his sweat stains before he even started talking.
This is my motivational video when I hit the 10th hour of working on the code.
And yes, I'm over 40 years old.
Yeah and the rest?
@@SacreDroafter the 10th hour, he hits compile and run - and then he sees it, “hello world!”
Now if only we could find “I LOVE THIS COMPANY!!!” In higher quality.
We need a documentary about this guy.
Highlights:
"Whats the $64,000 qÜĚStion?"
"The KEEEEEEEEY"
0:30 DevEloPers (points at head) 😂
@@MrTamk1sYES! clap clap clap clap
@@AhDollar Lol
This guy puts power in his point!
Actually seeing the surrounding context for this legendary moment is amazing.
He is just fucking drenched in sweat
He had the flu apparently (high fever)
is he?
He forgot to put deodorant on the crook of his arms.
Steve was way ahead of its time. A true legend.
he was a trash ceo m8
with killer products like zune, vista, and precience like "iphone is a joke, would never take off"
He’s such a dork
This is one of the greatest motivational speeches ever
Highlight of my week. Thanks. 😆
Dude gave it his all. Idc what the hater say.
This is best worse ( or worse best depending on the perspective) presentation ever. You feel the passion and the emotion on this guy, at the same time his voice cracks, he is sweating uncontrollably, clearly a winged speech etc
this is the video ever tysm for posting it
Steve was 90 % sweat that day.
What an matchlessly extraordinary man
These were the best days
His elbow sweatpatches are impressive
Good find! Now we need that one other clip of him jumping up and down stage screaming until he finally gets to the podium and yells "I LOVE THIS COMPANY YEEAAAH"
agreed
Never knew the context behind this famous line. Thanks!
well that was the most inspirational life changing speech I’ve herd in my life. Im great full steve has shared this wisdom.
You are great! And Full Steve has indeed been generous in sharing his wisdom
Full Steve ahead! That's what I always say :)
If I had the shits and I was rushing into a restroom and saw this coming out, I'd find another place to go.
This guy takes "I woke up sweating" to "I woke up coding".
This wins the day 🎉
Never gets old
* 64,000 tons of coke
The sixty four thousand dollar qUESTIOn.
Wow - this is a really great quality clip, both video and audio. Thanks for sharing this little piece of history.
Ya know, Steve Jobs was on to something when he marketed products without sweating through his shirt and screaming
I do appreciate their developer, developer, developer tools.
DeveloPers! developers! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! YES!!! those times where Bill and Steve were very good humored.
perfect video!
After almost 2 decades this is the first time in my life I've realized that I don't have a boring desk job, but im a super hero.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug
Not cocaine. Influenza.
As I watched this inspirational video, I found myself repeating his saying "the developers developers developers. developers devlopers.." and clapping hands.. while enjoying a sense of tears tricklikg down my cheek; what a legenday hypnotist 😂
Somewhere in all this a pair of underwear is crying out for help.
Legendddddddaaaaaryyyy 🎉
Kevin Malones speeches get me every time.
He’s the Wolf of windows
Damn. Got to love Steve, all CEOs should behave like this
Steve Ballmer's Chris Farley is on point.
I only just saw that full clip now in December 2023!
But I knew the "Developers, developers, developers, developers" part.
All that matters is, he survived this presentation. Phew.
Ballmer traded 100% passion for everything else.
Code is a helluva drug
Ah, the fun times!
His sweat spoke for him
It’s catchy, it could become a meditation mantra
On what level is Steve Ballmer operating?
Yes.
I can smell him through the screen
I wake up to this.
So much emotion, expression, optimism, can do and f u attitude. I like it.
It looks bad with the sweat but I do admire his passion and be hyped up at that event if I was there.
Some say Ballmer could convince everybody that his shirt was the best choice available.
I heard a homeless guy in London shouting the exact same thing at early morning commuters as they rushed by.
Developers, developers, developers!!!!
Has a real “You”ll be living in a van down by the river” vibe
There is no more sweat left in the world....he drained it all
Steve Balmer hit puberty at this speech
I wonder if he was living in a VANNNN DOWN BY THE RIVERRRRRRRR
He was really channeling Chris Farley's Matt Foley character here.
DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!
He atteneded the Chris Farley motivational speaker academy of "higher" learning.
He is working his fingers to the bone.
Dude was the Chris Farley of tech
This man is currently the worlds 8th richest person with a net worth of 118 billion dollars.
He definitely put a sweat. His boss will be happy.
Actual maniac
I want a boss like this..
Me too 👍