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FRONTPAGE Ballmer to Leave Microsoft Within 12 Months
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Thats the 1st thing I thought when I saw the title!! I figured we would have seen this a week after windows 8 was released.
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Not only Win8, but Surface was a major disaster for Microsoft.... just like any other device they tried to push in the last decade (with the exception of Xbox).
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The man must have wielded enormous personal influence over Board Members for them to have not applied standard performance evaluation/consequences procedures to him for this long.
The details of how he accomplished such influence over them, what was used, how he did it, that would be a historical story of value. The people who could have removed him earlier didn't just wave their fist and say 'Gosh, Steve will do better next time, we know he will, you'll see...'
So who were the people that kept him in for this long in full view of numerous consecutive failures, what did they get out of it? That would make a good investigative story.
The details of how he accomplished such influence over them, what was used, how he did it, that would be a historical story of value. The people who could have removed him earlier didn't just wave their fist and say 'Gosh, Steve will do better next time, we know he will, you'll see...'
So who were the people that kept him in for this long in full view of numerous consecutive failures, what did they get out of it? That would make a good investigative story.
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Win 8 and Surface were bad, to say the least. But Ballmer has been a good CEO overall.
Source: http://arstechnica.com/information-...ft-needs-a-new-ceo-who-probably-doesnt-exist/
It remains to be seen if somebody else can actually do better with current market situation. Microsoft is a gigantic ship to command and it just can't turn around on a dime.
Source: http://arstechnica.com/information-...ft-needs-a-new-ceo-who-probably-doesnt-exist/
It remains to be seen if somebody else can actually do better with current market situation. Microsoft is a gigantic ship to command and it just can't turn around on a dime.
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Sun CEO once asked us to imagine if a single company owned rights to the letters of the alphabet and got a royalty each time they were used. That is the situation Microsoft is in when it comes to software, he said. I am paraphrasing but you get the point.
When we talk about the economy in Iran for example, even with gross incompetence and with people at the top having utter inability to run anything, the oil dollars make up for those missteps so much that they stayed afloat even with mismanagement for so long.
So it would be pretty hard to do much worse than he did because of the monopolistic nature of their business. Saying Mr. Balmer did well where he did not have competition to speak of, is one thing. If he failed where they did not have a monopoly, and he did fail where he did not have a monopoly, then that is a true measure of his abilities.
When we talk about the economy in Iran for example, even with gross incompetence and with people at the top having utter inability to run anything, the oil dollars make up for those missteps so much that they stayed afloat even with mismanagement for so long.
So it would be pretty hard to do much worse than he did because of the monopolistic nature of their business. Saying Mr. Balmer did well where he did not have competition to speak of, is one thing. If he failed where they did not have a monopoly, and he did fail where he did not have a monopoly, then that is a true measure of his abilities.
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Bookmakers place Nokia's Stephen Elop in the lead for Microsoft next CEO. 5/1 are the chances. LOL
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/...ext_Microsoft_Chief_Executive_Bookmakers.html
How nice an idea would it be to name the CEO of a company on the decline to reinvigorate a company on the decline.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/...ext_Microsoft_Chief_Executive_Bookmakers.html
How nice an idea would it be to name the CEO of a company on the decline to reinvigorate a company on the decline.
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LOL
M$ had to take $7 billion out of their savings account to purchase Nokia, but it's okay they had 70 billions in there for rainy days!
On a side note, Nokia's Elop is still foreseen as Microsoft's next CEO... or how to drive two companies right into the ground at the same time.
M$ had to take $7 billion out of their savings account to purchase Nokia, but it's okay they had 70 billions in there for rainy days!
On a side note, Nokia's Elop is still foreseen as Microsoft's next CEO... or how to drive two companies right into the ground at the same time.
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