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> he's the first competent CEO of Microsoft in a decade. Are you seriously trying to say that Steve Ballmer was incompetent?!
by Andrew_nenakhov 2y ago
> he's the first competent CEO of Microsoft in a decade.
Are you seriously trying to say that Steve Ballmer was incompetent?!
- sofixa 2y agoThe guy who bungled smartphones while having the unimaginable advantage of the business ecosystem? And the guy who was years late on cloud computing and SaaS more widely? IMO if Ballmer had stayed on until present day, Microsoft would have become something like Oracle. Technically growing revenue, but very little substance or relevance, no new customers or new business from them, only jacking up prices. Also, he left in 2014, a decade ago, so it was ambiguous if I'm covering him or not.
- Andrew_nenakhov 2y agoYes, in his shoes, you would do far better, I see.