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I'm a Ballmer truther. He was completely right about many things including his vision for AI. I know that being early is often the same as being wrong but I d
by CSMastermind 1y ago
I'm a Ballmer truther. He was completely right about many things including his vision for AI. I know that being early is often the same as being wrong but I don't think his big strategic moves as CEO were incorrect. Microsoft during his era was more marked by an inability to execute on those strategies.
- anonymars 1y agoI wonder if this is another one of those "two sides of the same coins" situations: on the one hand I agree that Ballmer was too weirdly competitive, e.g. with Linux/etc., plus the cringey takes on the iPhone, Google, etc. On the other hand Microsoft had a fire and passion that I don't really see anymore. I miss Developers, Developers, Developers. Now it's just ads, AI, blah.
- flopsamjetsam 1y ago> on the one hand I agree that Ballmer was too weirdly competitive He was really the epitome of that, and that was the MO of Microsoft at the time. I always thought of him as the embodiment of that, the pinnacle, the ne plus ultra.
- anonymars 1y agoThinking about this some more -- in the interview, he seemed to have a feeling of Microsoft "struggling for survival" well past the timeframe when that was actually a reality
- CamperBob2 1y agoWhat was his vision for AI, and how could it be relevant? He was gone before the current wave hit. Going on TV and laughing at the iPhone pretty much told me everything I needed to know about Ballmer. The best thing I can say about him is that unlike Nadella, he didn't spend too much of his time actively trying to enshittify Windows.