Steve Ballmer is to retire

[Platypus]

Ballmer...designing yesterday's technology tomorrow.

[russell]

I never really paid much attention. It does seem, for all of the hate, that he was a successful businessmen.

{QUOTE=Internet & ting]Under Ballmer's tenure as CEO, Microsoft’s annual revenue surged from $25 billion to $70 billion, while its net income has increased 215 percent to $23 billion. Although these gains have come from the existing Windows and Office franchises, Ballmer also built new businesses such as the data centers division ($6.6 billion in profit for 2011) and the Xbox entertainment and devices division ($8.9 billion). In terms of leading their company's total annual profit growth, Ballmer’s tenure at Microsoft (16.4 percent) has surpassed the performances of other well-known CEOs such as General Electric’s Jack Welch (11.2 percent) and IBM's Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (2 percent).

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If you left a monkey in charge of MS when BG retired it could have made similar. He is an assclown.

[AtW]

I never really paid much attention. It does seem, for all of the hate, that he was a successful businessmen.

He was for sure as him with Bill Gates pretty much created software industry, but Microsoft's fortunes in last 10 years were seriously undermined - he allowed super big competitors to appear - Google, Apple (!), Samsung etc.

[jmo21]

I never really paid much attention. It does seem, for all of the hate, that he was a successful businessmen.

He's some better analysis than that PR fluff piece you quoted

Windows Phone, Vista, Zune.

Buying Aquantive and Skype for ludicrous amounts

Ignoring Google and search until it was way too late

[AtW]

Windows 8

FTFY

[Zippy]

So many insightful posts, so little rep :

The guy has always been a hazard - anyone remember the Win.nn launches? Awful.

[Ticktock]

He's some better analysis than that PR fluff piece you quoted

Windows Phone, Vista, Zune.

Buying Aquantive and Skype for ludicrous amounts

Ignoring Google and search until it was way too late

Strange, your post seems to be anti-Ballmer, but the piece you linked to is broadly supportive.

[d000hg]

If you left a monkey in charge of MS when BG retired it could have made similar. He is an assclown.

You're an assclown.

[DimPrawn]

He's some better analysis than that PR fluff piece you quoted

Windows Phone, Vista, Zune.

Buying Aquantive and Skype for ludicrous amounts

Ignoring Google and search until it was way too late

Starting MS developer tech x, backtracking with y, abandon y and push z, obsolete z and then leave everyone without a clue what's really happening.

Think Silverlight, Windows Azure, BizTalk, WinForms, LinqToSQL, etc, etc.

[woohoo]

Starting MS developer tech x, backtracking with y, abandon y and push z, obsolete z and then leave everyone without a clue what's really happening.

Think Silverlight, Windows Azure, BizTalk, WinForms, LinqToSQL, etc, etc.

I'm quite liking windows azure.