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Ways to boost MSFT stock in 1 hour: 1. Announce that Bill Gates is coming back. 2. Announce that Ballmer is leaving.
by gesman 14y ago
Ways to boost MSFT stock in 1 hour:
1. Announce that Bill Gates is coming back.
2. Announce that Ballmer is leaving.
- mieses 14y agoNot really. Gates is still anti-web. He also doesn't absorb how culture has changed - both the culture of technology creation and the culture of technology consumption. Ballmer is not great but he probably has more daily exposure to the right arguments than Gates. Also, Ballmer's buffoon-psychopath persona seems to be a cover for a paranoia or fear. Gates seems genuinely more cocky, perhaps because he's more intelligent, while Ballmer seems more likely to listen to ideas he doesn't agree with. A contemporary Microsoft led by Gates would probably make some awesome but irrelevant products.
- cmccabe 14y agoWays to boost MSFT stock in 1 hour... Announce that Ballmer is leaving. That would be the _real_ "Ballmer peak."