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Every company at that level has the resources to execute. The CEO decides what to execute on, what to nurture. Ballmer got Mobile so wrong. Ballmer didn't push

Every company at that level has the resources to execute. The CEO decides what to execute on, what to nurture. Ballmer got Mobile so wrong. Ballmer didn't push this much on cloud. Ballmer didn't get game streaming as an idea. Nadella is a god send for Microsoft. He's the best tech CEO and he's in house so knows how to get the ship moving.

MisterPea 6y ago
Ballmer says/did some stupid stuff and it gets (rightfully) flamed for it but he guided Microsoft with many correct decisions during his time. Even Satya says so: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/16/satya-nadella-credits-ballmer-for-pushing-microsoft-to-cloud-cramer.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/16/satya-nadella-credits-ballme... Ballmer pushed hard for Xbox, was a big proponent of cloud and, most importantly, placed a huge emphasis on enterprise customers. A lot of the fruits of his labor were reaped under Satya's tenure. More interestingly, it could be argued the biggest cloud evangelist in Microsoft at the time was neither Ballmer nor Satya, but rather Bob Muglia (the SVP of the servers and tools division). Muglia was notoriously hated by Ballmer and prevented his probable rise to CEO (he was fired by Ballmer and his position was filled by Satya).