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Great hire for Zynga. Don is hugely respected at Microsoft and was actually tipeed to be a potential Ballmer successor. Big loss for Microsoft.
by sriramk 13y ago
Great hire for Zynga. Don is hugely respected at Microsoft and was actually tipeed to be a potential Ballmer successor. Big loss for Microsoft.
- mtgx 13y agoInteresting. It seems a lot of "potential Ballmer successors" have been let go from Microsoft in the past few years, from Ray Ozzie to Sinofsky, and now this one, too. I wonder what this means for Zynga - more DRM?
- sriramk 13y agoI don't this in the same vein. I think Don was well-liked all around.
- runevault 13y agoDid that hold up after the One debacle that lead to a total about face? And he was at least part of it, with comments like "if you can't take advantage of the xbox one, we have a solution for you. The xbox 360" (not exact wording but you get the point). I could very much imagine the whole mess costing him a lot within MS and leading to him looking to go somewhere else and start over.
- theseanstewart 13y agoIt means you're going to be forced to use the front facing camera on the iPhone in order to play games.
- wilfra 13y agoThere is no more certain path to an early retirement from Microsoft than being perceived as a threat to Steve Ballmer for the CEO job.
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- pyrocat 13y ago"Let's take this guy who has been recently reviled by the gaming community and hire him at our company that has always been reviled by the gaming community! It's a perfect culture fit!"
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