Aaand we revert to the usual correlation/cause confusion that usually surrounds leadership discussion. For all you know, Microsoft could have been much worse of

Aaand we revert to the usual correlation/cause confusion that usually surrounds leadership discussion. For all you know, Microsoft could have been much worse off without Ballmer. Fate and the actions of the collective other will always have this kind of unpredictable, mountain-moving power, and foolish men will always try to attribute it to something they can measure. Nothing is this simple.