I think most people are unconfortable with Balmer's lack of pushing Microsoft in new directions. Not so long ago Blackberry's numbers wheren't bad, they were se

I think most people are unconfortable with Balmer's lack of pushing Microsoft in new directions. Not so long ago Blackberry's numbers wheren't bad, they were selling a boatload of devices, clausing new deals all around the world, and pushing these facts as a sign of health. But it just felt wrong because all the good news were about fields bound to die or shrink in the near future. Balmer as a CEO brings plenty of money, sales are strong, figures are good, but mostly in fields that might as well disappear in the next years. Even things like Office and .NET which should have many years left are so heavily bound to windows that they might as well get silently siloed into niche markets while the current PC market gets disrupted.