A man upset with the Hungarian government's decision to sign a software and training deal with Microsoft tried to pelt the company's chief executive with eggs during a presentation Monday at a Budapest university. The man, wearing a shirt with the words "Microsoft Equals Corruption" scrawled on the back, tossed three eggs at Steve Ballmer, who nimbly ducked behind a lectern. The protester isn't likely to win a major league pitching contract: He missed Ballmer on all three attempts, despite standing less than 50 feet from the Microsoft chief.
Ballmer was in Hungary on Monday to promote a program called Titan, under which Microsoft will train IT professionals in the country. The program also includes Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and several other vendors.
More than 10,000 Hungarian programmers and other IT professionals are expected to participate in Titan, which is slated to run through 2012. Hungary, along with a number of other Eastern European countries, is seeing significant growth in IT jobs outsourced from the Web.