Ballmer played into this critique in Thursday's press conference, calling the notion of breaking up Microsoft reckless and irresponsible and dismissing speculation about such a plan as ludicrous.
Ballmer disagreed with the notion of breaking up Microsoft.
yeah that's true you know a lot of people uh uh i think the that it ends up the people that uh vote every time uh elections come around are more the the polly uh the party type  followers the guys that uh you know follow the party lines you know and they you know just go in and if they're Republican they vote Republican vote Republican every year you know and uh the people that are independent