[dayglored]

Wow. Just... WOW.

Way to keep it classy, Steve baby.

[dayglored]

Great way to draw attention, Steve. Remind us why you're outta there, why don'tcha ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[rarestia]

Except that Steve Ballmer’s the reason why MS was tanking in the first place. Methinks he doth protest too much.

[Dr. Sivana]

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.

[Stentor]

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?

[Darksheare]

Somebody ask Ballmer how his pet projects at Redmond went and by what keg he stands on...

[Paladin2]

I still see Ballmer as the face of M$.

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).

[dayglored]

> [Steve Ballmer's] "...Windows Phone strategy"...

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[dayglored]

Here's something to consider for the long-term of Microsoft as a manufacturer.

First, this is a post from "badasscat1" on The Verge from this morning:

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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.

What this would do, is cause Microsoft, once a strictly software maker, to become a system maker.

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...

[Pearls Before Swine]

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.

[Alas Babylon!]

I’ve met Steve Ballmer.

Let me just say he is ignorant and/or stupid, or both.

Really.

[Mr. K]

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...

[Bug]

“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..........”

[Irishguy]

steve ballmer and his clown car returns...