∞ Michael Dell's catty comments about HP on Twitter

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When you’re the CEO of a company and something happens to your competitor, you should show some class or at the very least keep you mouth shut. Of course, Michael Dell is not known for his class — remember the comment about Apple in 1997 when asked what he’d do with the company?

“What would I do? I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.”

That’s right Michael, because you’ve done so much in the past few years to further the computer industry. Let’s see, we have the competitor to the iPod. I can’t even remember the name, but it died. Then there’s the Dell Streak tablet — dead. And I saw a commercial the other day where Dell users can change the color of the lid on their laptop.

Wow, great stuff.

Here are Dell’s latest comments about HP.


  • http://twitter.com/mike_griffin_f1 Michael Griffin

    I was going to call him a jackass but that would be stating the obvious.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=703848523 Harvey Lubin

      … and that comment would also be offensive to jackasses around the world who don’t want to be placed in the same category as Michael Dell ;-)

  • http://www.jphotog.com Hrunga Zmuda

    Ol’ Michael is pimping Dell World.

    Who wants to go slumming?

    [crickets]

  • Anonymous

    He’s going to regret this…

    • http://twitter.com/Moeskido Moeskido

      No, he won’t. Dell doesn’t regret any of the foolish things he says in public. He genuinely believes being that jerk is part of his job.

  • http://www.thegraphicmac.com JimD

    When you have the amount of money this douchenozzle has, it’s easy to lose touch with reality, and all common sense.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bob-Forsberg/100001387343371 Bob Forsberg

    Ego freaks who name failing tech companies after themselves cannot be reasoned with, or should they be listened to.

    Apple = Jobs = Win
    Microsoft = Gates = Win
    EBay = Meg = Win
    Dell = Dell = Dell

  • Anonymous

    I think it was the Dell DJ Ditty or some such.

  • http://gcerullo.pip.verisignlabs.com/ GC

    Michael Dell is a real class act. Unfortunately, I give it another two-three years before Dell divests itself of it PC division as well.

  • Anonymous

    Trying to think of a witty or insightful remark, but just can’t get past my first impression: what an asshole.

    • http://www.loopinsight.com Jim Dalrymple

      That works.

  • Nick Weston

    Give him a break, he’s just conscious of the fact that Dell is next in line as the world awakes from it’s PC induced stupor and realizes that life is too short for C:drives, Virus checkers/scanners, de-frag programs and a perpetually clunky OS jammed into fugly computers. 

  • Olli Vdl

    Man what I like the already posted documents, and I like to gather together to degrade folks as the Dell dude.

    You cannot blame the stupid of his stupidity, he is just ungifted to do different.

    To succed in competition, you have to think away competition and do your own thing. Otherwise you just develop easy to predict, or already developed changes. You just have to…

    Think different. There’s a lot of ungifted silly people who just don’t get that the limits of there capabilities lies within theirselves, so obviously to laugh at a company going doen is not thinking different…

    Maybe with Dell nothing different will happen as what happened to HP…

  • http://mangochut.net/ mangochutney

    There’s this proverb about people in glass houses.