Steve Ballmer is to retire

[ExPermie]

They could put you in charge it won't matter a jot. The market has already moved away from them. The more customers move toward cloud the less they are going to make in traditional licenses. Especially when most of the big boys have slaughtered their margins. My current client can do hosted desktop with office for £70 a head... You try buying the licences to do that in traditional microsoft licensing models, it would be over a £1000 a seat... Im sure microsoft don't want the additional OEM fees when they are losing all that cream out of traditional licensing...

Disagree, from what I've experienced, a large amount of businesses have no interest in the cloud and are indeed sticking with traditional MS licensing models or those provided by hardware suppliers, particularly Dell and along with resellers/consultancy/managed service suppliers.

The biggest cost appears to be support and the staff required to provide such support.

[ExPermie]

I can tell you're not very economically successful. Its because you'll always be fixated on irrelevant bollux.

Hth, bisdi.

What a strange name you have? Reminds me of an episode from Color Climax Vol 212.

[sasguru]

What a strange name you have? Reminds me of some episode from Color Climax Vol 212.

Yes but you are quite limited after all

[ExPermie]

Yes but you are quite limited after all

Which one were you? The curly haired geezer?

Well?

[ExPermie]

Thanks for the negative rep from the usual suspects, has been returned in kind. It's a pity you resort to such behaviour rather than accept that folk can and will disagree with your organised MS bashing...which is quite sad.

[AtW]

It's a pity you resort to such behaviour

That's nothing.

It's when you wake up and see horses' head next to you then you'd know somebody got upset at you.

[russell]

LOL...nice try but utter bollox!

BTW, the iOS brought Unix to the masses whilst Linux is still a plaything.

Why aren't you frustrated at Apple for not using Linux?

Dear oh dear, shall we reveal to retardo which operating system Google, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube most DNS/smtp/web servers all run on their servers?

Not to mention Android which as 80% market share of smart phones?

Oh wait, maybe retardo is talking about desktop PC's in the office? Yes the ones you are forced to use. So basically every time you use a computer you use a Linux OS (unless you just create spreadsheets all day without touching the internet).

[russell]

You're an assclown.

A Ballmer fan as well! I thought my opinion of you couldn't get any worse, but you managed it! You have sunken to new depths.

[TwoWolves]

I think the share lift on this news says it all.

Ballmer always had his eye on the bottom line so he did make a good income for Microsoft but he never was much of an innovator, he killed quite a few good ideas before they could fly so us IT bods are more likely to not like him. What do we care about profits at Microsoft (provided they stay in business)?

The pain he gave us was things like learning a new technology from Microsoft only to find it withdrawn or put out to pasture at short notice.

MS has not been innovating well the last few years and has made a few wrong calls because it keeps trying to ride the coat-tails of their competitors rather than lead from the front - and that is Ballmer's doing. I think he was good once but he should have stepped aside a few years ago.

[bobspud]

Disagree, from what I've experienced, a large amount of businesses have no interest in the cloud and are indeed sticking with traditional MS licensing models or those provided by hardware suppliers, particularly Dell and along with resellers/consultancy/managed service suppliers.

The biggest cost appears to be support and the staff required to provide such support.

Yeah you're right about the amount of staff The number of staff needed to feed and water 100,000 automated AWS servers is 1 person. Now compare that with your traditional model of a bunch of windows guys that are mostly too stupid to be able to shell script their environment and instead resort to needing RDP. Sorry your market will be extremely short lived...