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Microsoft was actually highly successful under Ballmer. Just not in terms of image or in the consumer-facing world.
by derrikcurran 8y ago
Microsoft was actually highly successful under Ballmer. Just not in terms of image or in the consumer-facing world.
- origami777 8y agoIt's a big company and hard to blame an individual for mistakes. But they totally missed out on being the mobile OS of the future under him. And they ended up getting a late, slow start to cloud computing (minus SAAS).
- nailer 8y agoThey lost their market leading position in not just mobile, but also browsers and consumer operating systems.
- discordance 8y agoThey might have made money under Ballmer, but he was also responsible for Windows 8, Windows Phone and restricting open source within the company.
- ggg9990 8y agoThey made a lot of money, but were not successful. Business software companies become irrelevant decades before their revenues go away (eg IBM). Microsoft lost its future relevance under Ballmer.
- earenndil 8y agoBallmer may have hurt microsoft, but they are still alive and well. The truth of it is that for a lot of things they do, there just isn't a competitor, nor will one arise soon. No one is replacing excel. As for windows -- there are a couple of niches where mac or linux could step in, but for most of them, that just isn't an option. Azure, typescript, vscode, ms office, office 365 are massively successful.
- nailer 8y agoNo. Microsoft's market cap remained steady during a 10 year boom that gave rise to most of the dominant players in the tech industry. https://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/08/23/the-steve-ballmer-era-by-the-numbers/ https://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/08/23/the-steve-ballmer...