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Because Gabe is an engineer and engineers have an insatiable need to fix things and microsoft needs fixing. But I don't buy it either. I think it would scare
by DigitalJack 14y ago
Because Gabe is an engineer and engineers have an insatiable need to fix things and microsoft needs fixing.
But I don't buy it either. I think it would scare the pants off of the corporate customers of MS.
- nness 14y agoFixing Microsoft isn't an engineering problem; if it were, I'd wager their thousands of engineers would've done it already.
- tobylane 14y agoIt may be an engineer on top kind of solution that is needed. Apple had a designer at the top of their structure, so design got its way. This even made up for mistakes made while Jobs wasn't there. Having Gabe in sufficient control of non technical managers may well work, but then you could switch Gabe out for any trustable non-manager.
- CamperBob2 14y agoI think it would scare the pants off of the corporate customers of MS. Ballmer's erratic leadership is scaring the pants off of customers, ISVs, and IHVs alike. In fact, the only people who still have their pants are Microsoft's competitors.
- rodolfor 14y agoHe might be an engineer but he was at Microsoft for 13 years and served as producer for the first three releases of Windows.