Posted on 12/03/2015 6:38:45 AM PST by dayglored
Ex-CEO Steve Ballmer has a huge holding of Microsoft stock. At yesterday's shareholder meeting, he tore into the company and its current CEO, Satya Nadella, cursing about the financial reporting and saying a key part of its strategy "won't work."
Ouch. Far be it for you humble blogwatcher to repeat the actual naughty word Ballmer used. Let's just say he was alluding to bovine excrement.
NSFW language aside, the ex-CEO seems unhappy about changes made to the Windows Phone strategy he put in place.
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Way to keep it classy, Steve baby.
Except that Steve Ballmer’s the reason why MS was tanking in the first place. Methinks he doth protest too much.
Ballmer’s a dunce. MS has been making some smart moves for the long term. His squawking will not help the share price either. He’s also been known for overpaying for #2 in the local market basketball teams.
Steve. The entirety of business and finance is bullsh!t when you know that US money is counterfeit. When it can magically appear out of thin air 3 trillions at a time. What isn’t bullsh!t?
Somebody ask Ballmer how his pet projects at Redmond went and by what keg he stands on...
The release of Win10 finally pushed my over to 64 bit Linux on my desktop (with some VirtualBoxen for XP and Win7 (and misc stuff like Haiku) to run windows software).
This is normal with Ballmy. he says BS too when his Clippers get a beatdown...
On another note, I met someone yesterday who uses the Windows phone and admits the interface is better than his Iphone and his GF’s Samsung, whose GUI’s just ‘sit there”..
Good Point!
You got that right. He damn near killed off the company he claims to "love".
Ballmer was a blowhard Sales guy. As such, he was a charicature, but in Sales that can be useful.
However, as a CEO he was an unmitigated disaster for the company. His ideas were proven wrong over and over, he rejected things that would have made the company better, and he stubbornly stuck to things that weren't working because of his hubris and stupidity.
I'm so glad he's no longer a major player. Not that that stops him from sounding off like an ass...
I am so glad that asshat is gone.
Exactly.
He still is, somewhat, but less and less so, thankfully...
> The release of Win10 finally pushed my over to 64 bit Linux on my desktop (with some VirtualBoxen for XP and Win7 (and misc stuff like Haiku) to run windows software).
That's an excellent combination. That's essentially my dayjob workstation, except for XP. And I've gotta have a Win10 VM for supporting the users...
What flavor of Linux?
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I also inserted a video card into this ~8 yr old hand me down machine to get Google Earth to work (it came with a 4-core processor). My money went for hardware rather than software.
I have a Windows phone. Everything works as it should, very seamless.
So when does he turn to politics?
First, this is a post from "badasscat1" on The Verge from this morning:
...What this would do, is cause Microsoft, once a strictly software maker, to become a system maker.I also think that when we look back on all this 10 or 20 years from now, the entire Surface strategy is going to look like a huge mistake. Rather than push OEM’s to create new and innovative designs (the original stated goal), it’s instead caused some of them to just say "you know what? Screw it. Have fun, MS". It's also caused some of them, like Samsung (who MS was at one point courting to make more Windows Phones), to rethink their entire Windows strategy. The overall marketing for Windows machines, expressed as the total marketing from all OEM's, has dropped. Meanwhile, the industry has consolidated into just five or so big OEM's that MS is now actively trying to prop up with its "PC does what?" campaign. That's the opposite of what Surface was supposed to do.
Ballmer started that but Nadella has expanded it. And in the end it may result in MS being the only Windows machine OEM a few years down the line. And that could mean more short-term revenue for MS, but it would also mean a long-term decline in the Windows ecosystem as a whole, which can only be a bad thing for MS.
Producing products that are systems of hardware + software that are meant to work seamlessly together.
It's a winning strategy, in my opinion.
It's exactly what Apple does.
The irony is strong with this one...
Ballmer was a TERRIBLE CEO. He was probably ok as a CFO, but he had no feel for the business (remember the $40 billion offer for Yahoo?) and was a fear and anger based motivator.
Nadella is much better.
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