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Steve Ballmer defaces fanboi MacBook

'Need a new one?'

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has defaced the MacBook Pro of a young fanboi, and his sarcastic scrawling was caught on video.

No, this wasn't another "developers, developers" rant or a chair-chucking loss of control. The fanboi asked him to.

Thanks to AppleInsider, we learned today that during a visit to Tennessee's Trevecca Nazarene University for a meeting of the Nashville Technology Council, Ballmer was approached by a long-haired youth who politely asked him to autograph his MacBook Pro.

"It's got Windows on it," the student said. "I promise."

Ballmer graciously complied, first signing his name with a felt-tip marker, then adding a jolly addendum: "Need a new one?"

Steve Ballmer's signature on a Trevecca Nazarene University student's MacBook

Words of wit from madcap Steve

And before you ask, the answer is "No:" The MacBook Pro in question has not yet appeared on eBay. ®

Turn tables

Will Steve Jobs now sign a Windows laptop in retaliation?

BTW, hating the new auto-headline changing thing on the front page of El Reg - why the flip did you do that?! can we turn the damn thing off?

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Showed a bit of class...

...for a change.

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The truth is....

... it wasn't his MacBook. He'd borrowed it from his room mate for a couple of hours....

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Anonymous Coward

is it...

a duck?

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"...the world's largest company..."?

Microsoft is not "the world's largest company", not by a long shot.

From Fortune magazine, as of 2009 the world's biggest companies are...

1. Royal Dutch Shell

2. Exxon Mobil

3. Wal-Mart Stores

4. BP

5. Chevron

6. Total

7. ConocoPhillips

8. ING Group

9. Sinopec

10. Toyota Motor

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