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IIRC he did mosrly miss cloud. Microsoft stagnated under Balmer[0] and only picked up after Nadella started really pushing cloud. Edit: actually revenue did in
by Vt71fcAqt7 3y ago
IIRC he did mosrly miss cloud. Microsoft stagnated under Balmer[0] and only picked up after Nadella started really pushing cloud.
Edit: actually revenue did increase a lot under Balmer just not stock price.
[0] https://www.statista.com/chart/1399/microsoft-stock-under-steve-ballmer/ https://www.statista.com/chart/1399/microsoft-stock-under-st...
- faeriechangling 3y agoAzure started under Ballmer’s tenure as CEO, years before Nadella became CEO, and now is the second biggest cloud company in the world. I wish I could mostly miss something like that. Not to say Nadella doesn’t deserve most of the credit but it speaks well of Ballmer that an internally promoted employee like Nadella who replaced him did so well. Again I can nitpick but he grew revenue and did not fatally injure MSFT. He was mediocre but not terrible is all I’m saying.