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Gates is perhaps the best business mind of the past century. The only truly dreadful decision of his career was handing the reigns to the incompetent Ballmer. A
by smitherfield 11y ago
Gates is perhaps the best business mind of the past century. The only truly dreadful decision of his career was handing the reigns to the incompetent Ballmer. Almost overnight, Microsoft went from a great innovator to a dinosaur caught flat-footed by every new development in the tech industry.
- Nokinside 11y ago>Microsoft went from a great innovator What are the greatest innovations from Gates era that originated inside Microsoft? It's hard to find any. Bill Gates was great and ruthless businessman who understood technology, but he was not good Chief Architect (it was his other position). During Bill Gates Chief Architect era MS was constantly behind others in innovations and only the usage of monopoly power allowed it to embrace, extend and extinguish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish