Bill Gates hired Ballmer because he needed a good COO, and Balmer was very good at it. However, MS had a Yahoo sized problem. They needed big hits, and this mea

Bill Gates hired Ballmer because he needed a good COO, and Balmer was very good at it. However, MS had a Yahoo sized problem. They needed big hits, and this means they have to aim square at the middle, and not to the right of the adoption curve. Bill had tried being the chief architect thing but as the article alluded, the problem isn't that MS hadn't enough people with vision, but their product development/marketing pipeline is broken. They need a CEO with a fresh set of eyes to fix this process.