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> Google's market cap has approximately doubled while Sundar has been the CEO. Microsoft grew similarly under Ballmer, despite losing a lot of their strategic

by ohazi 7y ago

> Google's market cap has approximately doubled while Sundar has been the CEO. Microsoft grew similarly under Ballmer, despite losing a lot of their strategic advantages and missing the boat in a handful of important ways.

m0zg 7y ago
I can name only one: mobile. OTOH Ballmer spearheaded Azure and Office/Exchange as a service, both of which are the major reasons why MS is a trillion-dollar company on an upswing today. No amount of Satya would save it, if Ballmer didn't beat the internal Microsoft "deep state" into submission on Azure and SaaS first. And a serious beatdown was required before Office and Windows apparatchiks received the message.
- lonelappde 7y ago
  Ballmer tried to save Microsoft by killing the Internet, creating the opening for Google to become the industry leader
  - m0zg 7y ago
    I think you're confusing him with Gates. Although Ballmer did refuse to buy Google when he could. Would have been a drop in the bucket. I forgot, BTW, he also spun up the ad and search businesses: the only reason there's any alternative to Google at all.
    - ddalex 7y ago
      Arguably, if he would've bought Google, we wouldn't have the internet as we have it today: people would've payed for search, as for the OS and Office suite: $10 per 1000 queries per month. Hmmm, maybe that've been for the better.
      - m0zg 7y ago
        There'd be a heck of a lot fewer ads for sure.