Steve Ballmer Gets Egged in Hungary

Haha!

I’m surprised the guy wasn’t escorted out of the building.

If only it HAD been worse.

Next time… tomatoes!

Ballmer deserved it, hell, I would’ve pie’d him if I had the chance. This guy is arrogant, ignorant and makes himself look like an idiot.

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Wow, I sure would like to know what the egg chucker was so upset about.

That is seriously funny and would be kind of scary for Ballmer. I feel sorry for him. You’re right it could have been much worse. Was the original video in Hungarian? Or do you know?

Against Microsoft?

Don’t:
Attend to a MS CEO conference.
Use any MS product (even live messenger)

Do:
Use Linux or Mac
Promote Linux and Mac use among fiends and foes
Support Linux…

For the love of God… practice yor aim!!!!!!!!!!!!

@Chris He claims that Microsoft took 45 million from the Hungarian people….

Lol so funny when stuff like this happens….

btw… I found out the reason why the guy was protesting against Microsoft:

“Microsoft has midterm contracts with the state in Hungary for “way cheaper than from the store” Campus-licences. This costs billions (in HUF, 160HUF=1USD) for the state and makes students stuck in the Microsoft-world, not knowing Linux etc.” -Gizmodo

Michael

How proud I am to be a hungarian!!! :D

Translation:

Hey you! Microsoft cause 45 billions forints of damage to the Hungarians! Give back that money right now ! (Throws eggs)

Wow! That was kinda funny… Steve was quick to get behind that desk. For as big as he is, I would have thought he would’ve rushed the dude or something.

I would have jumped the guy. What a prick.

I like how the protests just peters out and no-one actually seems to care.

Train of thought? Monkey boy couldn’t come up with a link. That imbecile is the George W. Bush of Microsoft. Evil.

“Hah” scrap those tomatoes how about mr brick

Classic, the guy in the red long-sleeved shirt pulled out a Macbook :-p

I sort of feel bad for Ballmer though. I don’t like the guy, and joke about him often, but flying all the way out there only to get egged is pretty cruel.

MIcrosoft is ruling the Hungarian end-user pc software market basically with Office. It has to be changed. People don’t know anything about other possibilities, that is why Mr. Ballmer came here when few small companies sued the Central Service Directorate due to a suspicious public procrement tender, which was won by MS(45 billion HUF). The procedure (as far as I saw, was fully legal, but in this case, the Law is wrong. Other solutions have no chance to get into the Public Authorities Offices, or schools, which means for the majority of the people.

So, he came here, because he wanted to keep this stronghold within the MS galaxy.

Today, the court trial was postponed (somehow..) and the result is not a question anymore(it was not, since the beginning). That is the reason why that guy with thick accent showed up in this way….

i agree with forian because he need that and heck i would do the same thing so i’m fine with it

LOL! That is the funniest thing I have seen in a while. Wow. It really didn’t solve anything though, it just made us Linux geeks look really bad.

I wish that guy would just get over it. Seriously, if you have a problem don’t get yourself kicked out of a conference……!

I have taken the liberty of screen capturing it and uploading it to YouTube. This Youtube video probably loads 99.9% faster. ;)

Sorry for the reduced quality, it was either that or an extremely long loading video.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MmzSKVVK_No

Now, about the video. I really don’t believe anyone is horrible enough to be egged or beaten or anything, why couldn’t the guy just state his mind and leave. Now people will pay more attention to the fact he through eggs at Steve Ballmer rather than his purpose.

+1 for Linux and Mac support…

But, I thought the egg throwing was trumped by the Steve casually flipping off the room. Did anyone else notice the middle finger at the end of the video?

LMFAO!!! He deserves it. He’s a rich money hungry pig… and he looks like a ape.

the poor man, can’t imagine how he felt, probably “crap o crap o crap”

I wouldn’t argue the fact that someone feels bad about something that Microsoft has done wrongly, but I would state that there is a more proper was of a: getting what you want, b: something that would cause attention and actually interest in the subject, and c: not making your self look ignorant…. throw eggs does not fit in any of these… (it might of caught attention.. but not really major interest for something to be corrected about the problem.. now did it?)

the best part is he thought he would get some huge reaction when actually all that happens is everyone sees he throws like a girl and gets zero reaction to his fellow students or wherever he was.

Sorry, there was no other way the student could protest the bribing and corruption done by Microsoft.

Many politicians and the judicial system is bribed and corrupted in Hungary and there is no way anyone’s going to be punished for spending tens of millions of dollars from Hungarian taxpayers’ pockets to Microsoft.

It was ironic how at the end some guy pulled out a macbook. If what the protester says is correct then Steve Ballmer is a Bad man. As for the TSA banning eggs, it won’t happen. The guy must have gotten them from the local Hungarian supermarket. It is bad that they are forced to use Microsoft. I would have done the same thing but just shake a macbook in his face or just dance with a BSOD t-shirt. If he went to a ghetto high school, then he would have gotten shot at or something. Then, the wallet raid begins. Well, Ballmer needs to rethink his life a little.

Haha, Classic. Especially with the Macbook. Although it reminds me of when Bill Gates received a nice pie present :).

Thank God they don’t use tazers, we don’t need more of “those” videos.

Thats funny but it could have been way worse. At least it was non life threatening or was it (salmonella) I have Been egged by a passing car once it hurt the egg’s just bounced off me and broke on the ground.

Now let’s see here:

-Gates gets pied

-Ballmer gets egged

What exactly are the levels of mockery and disdain to express to people like that for reasons that are hopefully justifiable?

Once a system is set up, they can take the colors we use from another system that IMO has no use for them and keep them.

I am sure that he got his copy of Windows Showing up as “This is a Pirated copy of windows, please buy windows!”…

Someone please explain to me what exactly an egg does to change a situation when hurled at someone? Now a watermelon, that might change some things.

Friendly disruption… I can see that… after all, he could have been throwing rocks…

As to TSA… they’ve banned nearly everything else as it is…The last time I was on a flight, I had packed a personal tape player and a couple audiobooks in my carry on… they didn’t take them from me… but they did everything but unrolled my tapes… From now on I’m going to have to invest in CD’s I think. At least until they ban CD players that is.

Bah…people are so disrespectful. I dont care how much you hate a person or a company, you just dont do something like that. How much would you like to be giving a presentation and get egged? I sure as heck wouldnt. Sure, they have made a few mistakes, but please, at least have some decency and dont act like a 5 year old.

just an other camera view of the event
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmIhW9sOp3Q

Quite uncalled for, but hilarious at the same time! I guess there are those out there who really do hate everything about Microsoft. I get fed up with windows sometimes, but don’t have enough hate to take it that far haha.

this is the failure of Hungarian law, like in California where you may not put your ice cream in to your pocket, in Hungary everyone may throw eggs on anyone he just want without any effect. (said the top lawyer in HUN)

I can’t help but feel bad for the guy. No one wants eggs thrown at them, especially with a room filled with people.

You shouldn’t feel bad for Steve Ballmer, he can integrate lotus123 with Miami Vice WITHOUT running out of air.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkY_hllQ-X0

It’s hard enough to represent the company, but doing it with eggs flying past your head? …

At least that dude couldn’t aim XD

This man showed alot of character. I await the translation. He did not seem overly passionate, but it seemed to have come from the heart. I dont know if that was the right way to go about it, but he got his point across didn’t he? We now know that Hungarians may not be so happy with microsoft. At the end of the day it looks like another story of a heavy company picking up and thrwoing its weight all around the earth. Theres bound to be discrepancies. I thought the Microsoft spokes person dealt with the situation well, considering he was ducking behind a desk. His charisma got the place to lighten up after the incident. I am sure he wont loose his job anytime soon.

Hmm…I hate to say this but…

Too bad the eggs didn’t actually hit him.

I have to go over the audio again, but a rough translation of the outburst in Hungarian is “IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL”. Apparently Ballmer wasn’t seeing the message for the first time.

You could tell hge couldnt keep a straight face so he made a joke about it. That guy who threw the eggs should have been prosecuted he looked very angry.

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Omg, I did see this, I was hoping at first it was someone badgering him over the problems with Vista but was sad when it was just saying that Microsoft is an evil company, but it was all in all a good experience, i liked how after the guy egged him, he had a bad exit plan and like had to go slowly in front of 5 people with laptops, so everyone had to move, it was pretty hilarious, all in all.

This is hilarious, but I would think that steve balmer would catch one of the eggs with out it breaking and have im smashing it against his head screaming “mircrosoft will eat your soul!” and the second egg would be thrown back at the thrower.

Haha the look on Ballmer’s face was priceless. I really liked his shirt too! Funny aside, it was really rude to do that to Ballmer, and I don’t think he will come back to Hungary anytime soon.

Thanks Chris!

Regardless of how upset you are at someone/something, can we be any more juvenile? Pathetic in my opinion. I use Microsoft products (VWindows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 on my MacBook Pro Boot Camp partition along with Windows XP, Microsoft Office 2003 in VMware Fusion, and Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac in Leopard) and I agree that there products have bugs and aren’t the best but they are the industry standard.

Until something as universal comes along, MS will be the leader. Mac is doing great in the OS and multimedia sides of things but iWork is nothing compared to Office suites.

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Hrm… I guess I was expecting a little more outrage than that… but hey… nobody stopped the guy! :) I thought it was funny that the guy just stood their throwing eggs and the guys around him were like… “.. okay”

Free speech is great… rioting/mean approaches… not so much. If he had a problem… this guy took it out the wrong way.

-Shaina

I’ve heard so many friends of mine say “vista” 64 bit system
breaks most of the software they try to use.
This Hungarian must have just upgraded and had upgraders remorse.
Should have got a mac.

I do not necessarily believe this person’s claims, but I would be interesting to hear Microsoft comments regarding this issue. The guy could have been at least civil about it. Throwing an egg at someone is very immature and pointless.

The best part is at 28 seconds. : D

People are jerks! When somebody is performing or speaking you should not be rude, just listen to what they have to say and if you don’t like it express yourself after the person is done speaking, and that does not mean throwing eggs at them. At least Ballmer didn’t go nuts like Lewis Black when he got a water bottle thrown at him on stage. http://youtube.com/watch?v=RBIkWSI9VLM&feature=related

lol that is good

it stinks for ballmer but it is funny. Well that guy found a way yo release all that anger from Vista lol j/k. I would have never thought somebody would do something like that to Ballmer. Imagine if it had been Gates instead lol. that would’ve been all over the news lol.

It’s really sad that people act this way. Thankfully the Egg didn’t really hit Ballmer, and he survived the event!

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At least somebody is actively protesting Microsoft’s conquest. The sad part is..he missed…and Ballmer laughed it off..

I’m afraid this incident had excessive coverage. After all, nothing happened really. Balmer wasn’t injured / killed, no property was damaged. Plus, lots of more interested things happened in Hungary. Sadly enough, Balmer went on to the Czech Republic, the country where I live, with a similar “bargain” of MS Office licences.

Now, if we all threw eggs at Microsoft, does that mean they would hide behind a desk and we’d never hear from them again? Oh wait, that’s customer service. My bad.

OK, come on, Windows Vista may quite possibly be the worst operating system that ever existed, but that doesn’t mean you have any right to judge the entire company and the CEO over that.

Well yeah, it’s wrong but i wouldn’t say it’s that wrong because microsoft has done some corruptive things i guess but yeah at least it didn’t turn out too bad and that steve toke it calmly and with a joke.

One of my co-workers was actually at this event. He told me they almost streamed this event on Ustream. That could’ve been interesting.

I laughed out loud when I saw this. The guy probably just downgraded to Vista (although surprisingly, Vista x64 doesn’t suck as much as Vista x86).

lol ok I can’t help but say this is a PR stunt. As if Balmer needed more bad publicity right? i know but man it just looks so fake. I mean, what was your plan there? Did you really think you were going to show up, throw a couple eggs, and get money out of him?

Bill Gates was the first with that cake in the face.Steve Ballmer need it to take the leadership of the company from now on:) Joking.He didn’t deserve to pay mistakes this way.

Freedom of Speech to the max lol.

As wrong as it was, I couldn’t help but sneak a chuckle. Could have been dangerous if a shell got in his eye or something.

poor steve, didn’t get hit though, maybe the guy was upset that steve wouldn’t do “developers,developers,developers!” for him?

Apple Power! I find it funny how its a lecture about Microsoft and there is more people with Macs than PC’s. I don’t know its just odd. and i find this kinda funny :)

Steve Balmer is a silly man that really is critical of Apple and all other operating systems. However, that doesn’t mean that he deserves to be tarred and feathered lol. That also is some dirty business right there from Microsoft, even if it is legal.

But i am a big fan of bill gates and Microsoft
idont boter what others say or do
because bill is my role model, he works very hard and slo participates and donates huge amount of money in various social activities.

From reading through the some of the comments its apparent to me that a lot of people feel that Microsoft have become to powerful within Hungry for anyone else to have a fighting chance of any competition. I think this is where Linux, and the strong committed community could do some of their best work. Not necessarily making people change completely to Linux, but showing people that there is an alternative to Windows that some people would find even more beneficial. I do however have to ask, surely the mans clothing would have drawn some attention to him prior to the commencing of this event.
I also agree that no one should see this kind of treatment. No matters people’s resentment towards a company such as Microsoft, they’re [Microsoft] contribution to our lives will be felt forever as the pioneers of some the most widely used products in the world. And thats coming from a Mac user.

i am glad he was not hit that would have been very embarrassing, but seriously you don’t throw eggs at someone on stage.

P.S. he throws like a girl.

I and many other people found this HILARIOUS! But when your mad at someone for something even if what they did is SUPER BAD (like release an OS like Vista) you don’t do something as childish as throwing eggs at him! He probably deserved it but there are far better ways of dealing with these sorts of problems.

What I like about the video of this is that Ballmer maintained calmness and even joked about it in the end. I do have to hand it to people that protest and even speak their mind.

i watched this video and i laughed for a good 10 min because i just hate him so much he can get really anoying

Wow, I wouldn’t want that happening to me. =( Even if you disagree with someone you shouldn’t be treating him or her that way.

Why people take on MIcrosoft at a personal level? There products are expensive but it is difficult to imagine the present penetration of IT at work and at home without the direction provided by the Redmond entity. If I am not happy with a product, I am not supposed to have it . It is better than repenting and egging someone later. After all why do we make a mistake of considering Microsoft as a charitable organisation. As Milton Friedman put it many years ago, ‘the business of business is business’.