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Steve Ballmer E-mail to Employees on Ray Ozzie Transition
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- danilocampos 16y agostimulated thinking across the company and helped catalyze our drive to the cloud. This man is the biggest horseshit artist in our history. His work should be in a museum. Never put a salesman in charge of a company that actually has to make things. - signed, a former (teenaged) salesman who now makes things
- dkarl 16y agoSharePoint and Exchange have now decidedly embraced the cloud. SharePoint has embraced the cloud? As a means of delivering its boneheaded, pre-web vision of the internet as a directory of Microsoft Office documents? Microsoft does not "embrace" any new thing. They shackle it to their last vision, so the new thing limps along dragging their old vision along with it. This way they can pretend they aren't left behind. SharePoint killed every possibility for reasonable documentation at my company. The nontechnical employees in the company have embraced it, because it's like email they can't accidentally delete, and email attachments were their preferred means of communicating and storing documentation all along. So you upload something to SharePoint... and it's like attaching it to an email you send to the whole company! Except nobody yells at you! Now there's no going back. (They thought the wiki was too hard. Of course, if Microsoft replaced all their keyboards with a device requiring them to fart in Morse code, they would all learn it in an afternoon, and if it seemed a little unnecessarily difficult or uncomfortable, they wouldn't dare say so.)
- palewery 16y agoI would be embarrassed to be the the CEO of a company with unlimited money that put out Vista.
- rbanffy 16y agoIn more civilized societies, he would be expected to kill himself...
- gaelian 16y ago"... Ray has played a critical role in helping us to assume the leadership position in the cloud ..." Emphasis mine. Does this have any basis in fact?