Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer on Android: It’s just a press release

While Google (NSDQ: GOOG)’s Open Handset Initiative may impress many of the industry’s analysts and search giant’s fans, apparently Symbian and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) aren’t afraid of it. Following reactions from Symbian, we now have Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer saying: “Well of course their efforts are just some words on paper right now, it’s hard to do a very clear comparison [with Windows Mobile].”

“Right now they have a press release, we have many, many millions of customers, great software, many hardware devices and they’re welcome in our world,” he added.

There’s some truth in Ballmer’s words, but I would be more cautious to call Google’s initiative just a “press release.” Again it’s Google we’re talking about here, and they certainly have all the resources to pull this out…

[Via: PCWorld.com]