[Sherman Logan]

This is the problem with Ballmer and his run at Microsoft. His starting point for any decision at the company centers on money. He thinks about how Microsoft will make, or lose money on a product.

Every company needs a top exec whose job is to think about how to make money. Putting him in as the very top dog is generally a bad idea.

The Leader of a company that wants to excel must have a vision above and beyond "making money" to achieve that goal. Making money is a by-product, not the goal.

[RegulatorCountry]

Microsoft never learned how to lead. Always reactive, always predation upon a segment created and defined elsewhere, always attempted one-upsmanship with feature creep that doesn’t play well together. A me-too colossus that made it big on an apparent cheap cost of entry.