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Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer had nothing but high hopes ahead of his visits in Central and Eastern Europe that were scheduled to debut in Budapest, Hungary on May 19, 2008. But a less traditional reception awaited the CEO of Microsoft in the final stage of his Hungary visit. Ballmer participated at the Windows Server 2008 executive launch event, then attended a press conference for the launch of Hungarian Employability Alliance, in an online chat, and was scheduled to finish the day with a keynote address at the Entrepreneurship Forum at Corvinus University, where it all went bad for the CEO. During what appeared to be nothing more than a regular speech, Ballmer was egged by a protester, and the otherwise anodyne event managed to make video history.

via Softpedia

Here are some YouTube videos.

Too bad he missed, eh? While it is understandable that people might dislike Microsoft, the protester’s actions were pretty immature. Ballmer handled the situation well enough.

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