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I 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 L
by anonymars 1y ago
I 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