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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MEATHEAD HAD HIS SHOT..
NOW PUT ON THE DUNCE HAT, FACE THE CORNER AND SHUT THE F UP
I’ve met Steve Ballmer.
Let me just say he is ignorant and/or stupid, or both.
Really.
If Bill Gates were still running it I bet Windows Phones would be dominant
They would suck, but they would be dominant in the market
I was rooting for that because I write Windows software, and now I have to learn Android...
“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It’s a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I’d prefer to have our software in 60 percent or 70 percent or 80 percent of them, than I would to have 2 percent or 3 percent, which is what Apple might get.”
“I like our strategy. I like it a lot.”
“Developers, developers, developers, developers..........”
steve ballmer and his clown car returns...
M$ certainly offered some quality hardware items over the years.
"I have just four words for you.... I! LOVE! THIS! COMPANY!!! YEEEEAAAAAAAAAHH!!!!!"
He made Howard Dean look like a piker.
The Best of Steve Ballmer (YouTube mix)
Just be honest, you use Linux to safely browse the pr0n sites.
Except that Linux doesn't have the video codecs for the REALLY good content.... for that ya gotta use Windows... :-)
Nah, there is no "safe" browsing of pr0n in my household. Malware, no.... but my girlfriend would KILL me.
But it's not what Microsoft does. It would a\be a seismic shit to their way of doing business and I don't know if they would survive the transition. The whole Windows model is "be all things to all people all of the time", which leads to their widespread penetration but rarely being the best at any one thing.
If they have to shift to being more focused, I don't know if they'll keep enough of their customer base to live through the upheaval.
and a seismic shift, too :-)
> ... to their way of doing business and I don't know if they would survive the transition. The whole Windows model is "be all things to all people all of the time", which leads to their widespread penetration but rarely being the best at any one thing. If they have to shift to being more focused, I don't know if they'll keep enough of their customer base to live through the upheaval.
Those are good points.
But as Paladin2 pointed out above, Microsoft has done some fine hardware (Zune jokes aside), usually on the second or third iteration for any given product, but they do get it right eventually.
For the longest time, the symmetric (old-style, before it looked like a comma) Microsoft mouse was the world standard, even as Apple went from design to design, including the much-reviled "hockey puck". Microsoft produced some strange looking keyboards, but they were generally robust.
If there are rough waters ahead for Microsoft as it starts marketing more systems, they are there because Windows customers are used to having hundreds of options on all sorts of things. Apple gives you very limited choices, and that's been their business model, so their customers expect that. Microsoft will be fighting decades of having too much choice.
Who knows, maybe Windows buyers will actually enjoy a more limited choice menu.
I'm not a big Rah-Rah Microsoft fanboi, but I would love to see them succeed at a system-level product line. Surface has that potential, but they've gotta make it move farther into the marketplace, soon.
The Lumia, right?
Yes, the 930.
Great phone.
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