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2000/2001 was also the years of the dot com bubble where every tech company tanked in some way. I think this has more to do with it than Ballmer's arrival (it w
by nolok 15y ago
2000/2001 was also the years of the dot com bubble where every tech company tanked in some way. I think this has more to do with it than Ballmer's arrival (it was the time of the hugely successful and popular windows 2000 and XP, ballmer's damage if any would only be seen years later).
- hugh3 15y agoOh, for sure every tech company tanked in 2000, but the interesting thing about MSFT is that they never recovered. The stock price graph is astounding -- twenty years of huge exponential growth followed by a 50% dip and ten years of completely static prices (and yes, a steady but relatively small dividend).
- code_duck 15y agoThat was a lousy time to take over as CEO, true. However, the next decade has had plenty of opportunity - Google went from not much to a $500 billion company, and Apple went from dying to dominant. With a CEO who had a full vision, they could have added huge amounts of value to the company since then. Instead they've been coasting along and taking wrong turns.