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Steve frickin' Ballmer... Does anyone believe that he'd still be CEO if Bill Gates hadn't anointed him as his successor? He's the Gordon Brown to Gates' Tony Bl

by gamble 17y ago

Steve frickin' Ballmer... Does anyone believe that he'd still be CEO if Bill Gates hadn't anointed him as his successor? He's the Gordon Brown to Gates' Tony Blair. Microsoft is never going to be relevant until Ballmer and his horde of bean counting lackeys get the boot.

jacquesm 17y ago
That's a beautiful analogy, with more than just a grain of truth to it. Especially the Gates - Blair bit. IBM managed to 'reinvent' itself after a very rough patch, maybe microsoft will manage to do that too but definitely not with the current leadership. To solve these issues you first have to be able to admit (maybe even publicly) that there are issues. Until then it's down. I remember IBM passing out little flashlights with 'I've seen the light', and they really had. Microsoft is at least a decade away from a moment like that. Give google another 10 years to figure out how to kill office and they probably will.