Blubbering Ballmer admits HE was Microsoft's problem
Blubbering Ballmer admits HE was Microsoft's problem
Posted: 18 Nov 2013
A tearful Steve Ballmer has admitted he was a big part of the problem at Microsoft – and that the company needs to rethink its management structure to succeed in the future.
"At the end of the day, we need to break a pattern. Face it: I'm a pattern," company CEO Ballmer told The Wall Street Journal with apparent tears in his eyes.
"Maybe I'm an emblem of an old era, and I have to move on. As much as I love everything about what I'm doing the best way for Microsoft to enter a new era is a new leader who will accelerate change."
Ballmer, due to retire by August 2014, said he had been trying to make Microsoft change its business strategy to focus on the cloud and mobile, rather than its desktop roots, since October last year. But the rate of change wasn't fast enough and board members were growing frustrated.
That article is just scary. Basically, according to the article, M$ wants Ballsmore out because he wasn't moving fast enough to cloud and mobile computing. M$ just doesn't get how big of a market they are throwing under the bus by abandoning desktop PCs and they simply refuse to believe both cloud and mobile computing and PCs can exist side by side or even compliment each other.
Btw, I laughed out loud when I saw this line in the article: "Shy and retiring Ballmer...". Yeah, right!
In future they should offer two version of windows - those with a reliable decent megabit+ connection and the rest of the world who dont have the luxury of uber connection speed.'
Better yet, make Direct X non proprietary.
Hell neither going to happen but why not ask anyway?
That article is just scary. Basically, according to the article, M$ wants Ballsmore out because he wasn't moving fast enough to cloud and mobile computing. M$ just doesn't get how big of a market they are throwing under the bus by abandoning desktop PCs and they simply refuse to believe both cloud and mobile computing and PCs can exist side by side or even compliment each other.
It looks like they are determined to commit suicide.
I guess I'd better put more effort into Linux (especially the Terminal).
That article is just scary. Basically, according to the article, M$ wants Ballsmore out because he wasn't moving fast enough to cloud and mobile computing. M$ just doesn't get how big of a market they are throwing under the bus by abandoning desktop PCs and they simply refuse to believe both cloud and mobile computing and PCs can exist side by side or even compliment each other.
Btw, I laughed out loud when I saw this line in the article: "Shy and retiring Ballmer...". Yeah, right!
That would be "The Registers British acid wit".
Last edited by Indianatone; 20 Nov 2013 at 15:26.
Reason: Grammer Police called me out for too may t's in wit.
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HA HA HA!
They had no clue what was going on.
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