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Steve Ballmer named worst CEO
- losethos 14y agoYou cannot be both simple and delux. LoseThos is not a general purpose OS. Nothing Windows can do will make it as simple and elegant and transparent as LoseThos. Give-up! Yer fucked. God says... C:\Text\PARADISE.TXT tongues; In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visitest my slumbers nightly, or when morn Purples the east: still govern thou my song, Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drowned Both harp and voice; nor could the Muse defend Her son. You cannot support legacy and be cruft-free beautiful. God says... C:\Text\YANKEE.TXT tocracy, howsoever pruned, is rightly an insult; but if you are born and brought up under that sort of arrangement you probably never find it out for yourself, and don't believe it when somebody else tells you. It is enough to make a body ashamed of his race to think of the sort of froth that has always occupied its thrones without shadow of right or reason, and the seventh-rate people that have always figured as its aristocracies--a company of monarchs and nobles who, as a rule, would have achieve
- dm8 14y agoIt may sound controversial, I'd love to be in his shoes to be honest. Kinect and XBox are future of gaming/computing. Enterprise division (traditional cash cow for MSFT) is stronger as always. Windows 7 was runaway success (even though Bay Area is full of macs). Windows phone is genuinely cool product, need year or two to see whether it translates into profits. And last couple of quarters were record profits. What else need to be done then?