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Note: Alan Mulally, CEO of Boeing, was briefly in the running for CEO at instead of Satya. Just shocking to think how bad a choice that would have been. * htt

• chihuahua 3y ago
  Very interesting, I had no idea. After all these years, I'm still stunned that Microsoft got a new CEO who didn't run it into the ground. They used to make so many bone-headed decisions at the top levels.
  • Spooky23 3y ago
    They were comically thin skinned in the Ballmer era. My boss used to have us flaunt MacBooks and iPhones when we would have senior MS execs come in to get yelled at or for a hard negotiation. They’d get visibly agitated. It was funny.
  • wkat4242 3y ago
    They did but running it into the ground they did not. Questionable business practices sure, but they were successful.
    • chihuahua 3y ago
      I'm still amazed they ended up with 0% market share in mobile phones. That took a some effort, considering they had Windows CE and Windows Mobile for years. Then Windows Phone, and they kept changing the APIs with every release so that nothing was ever backwards compatible. In a CMD shell I still have to use the goddamned backslash because of slavish compatibility with CP/M from 1974, but on the phone they create an incompatible set of APIs with every release. Congratulations, guys, well done.
• shiroiuma 3y ago
  Bad? That would have been a great choice! I wish I could see the parallel universe where Mulally became CEO of Microsoft. Even better, it'd be nice to see him as CEO of Apple.