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Under Ballmer's watch the revenue tripled. It could have been pure dumb luck. Even with all that Satya is doing it hasn't really showed any results on revenues
by samfisher83 10y ago
Under Ballmer's watch the revenue tripled. It could have been pure dumb luck. Even with all that Satya is doing it hasn't really showed any results on revenues and profits. Sun did a lot of great things for open source and they pretty much floundered.
- dctoedt 10y agoNit: It's "On Ballmer's watch" (an old naval expression).
- marcosdumay 10y agoIt's more the case that Gates left plenty of low hanging fruit to pick. Almost the entire revenue growth was in repricing stuff that was widely adopted because it was cheap, and a few short lived "innovations" that people are already abandoning everywhere.
- scholia 10y agoYou really think that repricing stuff gets you from roughly $20 billion to $70 billion in the PC market?