Blubbering Ballmer admits HE was Microsoft's problem

[A Guy]

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.

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A Guy

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

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!

 

[A Guy]

I was hoping to read that Ballmer was pushing them towards the cloud, and now they'd get back to what got them there. A Guy

 

[smarteyeball]

Ballmmer a huge problem with MS culture - never.


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?

 

[lehnerus2000]

Ridiculous

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).

 

[ThrashZone]

An emotional roller coaster,
Would he be any better on the board ?
Why can't rich people just go on a permanent Vacation

 

[Indianatone]

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". :haha:

 

[Bertison]

One too may "t's"

That would be "The Registers British acid witt".


Tut-tut, dear me, ungrammatical of you, old chap!.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Well, since you brought it up... That should be "The Register's British acid wit".

Witt is an archaic spelling of wit (some five or six hundred years old) so, if you are that old...

 

[andrew129260]

wow.....

 

[Indianatone]

I am so sorry for spelling wit with one to many T's. I beg forgiveness. It could be my estate (UK) subdivision (USA)is off of Witt Rd and I may have over typed automatically but it could also be the pain killers and the epidural steriods injection I had on Monday. Yes Lady I do indeed feel that old but I am still a teenager at heart.
This was indeed written with acid British wit......

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Hey, I wasn't the one who brought it up (running and ducking). Besides, it is an easy typo, as is forgetting the apostrophe. Heck, a bouncy keyboard could cause the double T.

 

[Indianatone]

Hey, I wasn't the one who brought it up (running and ducking). Besides, it is an easy typo, as is forgetting the apostrophe. Heck, a bouncy keyboard could cause the double T.

No need to duck, everything is OK. Just having laugh.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Hey, I wasn't the one who brought it up (running and ducking). Besides, it is an easy typo, as is forgetting the apostrophe. Heck, a bouncy keyboard could cause the double T.

No need to duck, everything is OK. Just having laugh.

Thank God since I can't run anyway. I should have said waddle.

 

[mjf]

Sometimes you sit back and think - "Am I just getting old?" Then I think sanity prevails and realize how stupid the MS strategy actually is. Just do an MBA 101 SWOT analysis. I would have thought MS had an army of business strategists. There is clearly an opportunity in mobile computing but they have (had?) an enormous strength in desktop computing. Never mind the home environment just look at the needs of any office environment If they relinquish the desktop then it will be an enormous opportunity for someone else (come on down Virgin Linux). As for cloud computing I see the value in some data storage capability but I don't want to do network based processing.

 

[Layback Bear]

Is this a spelling beeee of some kind?
Now back to the subject.
I'm hoping that new management will focus on all branches of their products.
Mobile, cloud, and PC's programs ect. As large as Microsoft is they must have room for all the horses in their stable.
Microsoft just needs proper management giving direction and goals. They also need to get rid of this My Boss is bigger than Your Boss B/S.
Teams need leaders not bosses.