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Swap out the CEO. Ballmer has kept things even keeled and done a great job releasing Windows 7, why not go out on a high note and put in somebody that represent

by aresant 17y ago

Swap out the CEO. Ballmer has kept things even keeled and done a great job releasing Windows 7, why not go out on a high note and put in somebody that represents the future, not the past?

fjabre 17y ago
Not sure he'd be leaving on a high note. He does need to go though. He was never a visionary - he's always just been a good salesman like Larry Ellison. These guys win by shoving their products down the customer's throat. In the long run they always lose however. It takes vision to run a company. He obviously has none.
- access_denied 17y ago
  That's what is wrong with MS: they lack vision. They need to focus on a compelling vision. All else comes from that.
- presty 17y ago
  is ellison really not a visionary?
brg 17y ago
Steven Sinofsky needs to be named the next CEO of MS soon. Not only because Sinofsky is a key reason for the success of Windows, but also because he is tech orientated. Every tech company which has abandoned tech oriented management has stagnated. For instance Apple after Jobs, maybe McNealy and Joy leaving Sun. When management becomes business oriented they look to maintain market position. They look to maintain current products at the cost of developing internal competitors. A tech orientation looks to innovate and create new markets. A business orientation looks at Vista and says it is good enough to maintain X% of the market, a tech orientation is embarrassed by its quality and lack of polish. A tech orientation would have given time to fix those belimishes that drives it to grow to X+Y% of the market. In real terms, a business orientation wants to move Windows onto the phone, a tech orientation wants to create a new OS/API for mobile devices. A business orientation sees introducing a low power tablet as a threat to desktop dominance, a tech orientation sees the possibility of a entirely new market. Maybe the difference is that a business orientation asks, "Is this good enough to make money" and a tech orientation asks "Is this the best we can do?" Microsoft needs to continually ask the second question. After that, all else will follow.

by aresant 17y ago

Swap out the CEO. Ballmer has kept things even keeled and done a great job releasing Windows 7, why not go out on a high note and put in somebody that represents the future, not the past?

fjabre 17y ago

Not sure he'd be leaving on a high note. He does need to go though. He was never a visionary - he's always just been a good salesman like Larry Ellison. These guys win by shoving their products down the customer's throat. In the long run they always lose however. It takes vision to run a company. He obviously has none.

access_denied 17y ago
That's what is wrong with MS: they lack vision. They need to focus on a compelling vision. All else comes from that.
presty 17y ago
is ellison really not a visionary?

brg 17y ago

Steven Sinofsky needs to be named the next CEO of MS soon. Not only because Sinofsky is a key reason for the success of Windows, but also because he is tech orientated. Every tech company which has abandoned tech oriented management has stagnated. For instance Apple after Jobs, maybe McNealy and Joy leaving Sun. When management becomes business oriented they look to maintain market position. They look to maintain current products at the cost of developing internal competitors. A tech orientation looks to innovate and create new markets. A business orientation looks at Vista and says it is good enough to maintain X% of the market, a tech orientation is embarrassed by its quality and lack of polish. A tech orientation would have given time to fix those belimishes that drives it to grow to X+Y% of the market. In real terms, a business orientation wants to move Windows onto the phone, a tech orientation wants to create a new OS/API for mobile devices. A business orientation sees introducing a low power tablet as a threat to desktop dominance, a tech orientation sees the possibility of a entirely new market. Maybe the difference is that a business orientation asks, "Is this good enough to make money" and a tech orientation asks "Is this the best we can do?" Microsoft needs to continually ask the second question. After that, all else will follow.