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Bullshit. $900mm is a small mistake for Microsoft. They're too big for them to fire Steve over a billion dollar mistake. They still have multiple billion+ busin
by cududa 13y ago
Bullshit. $900mm is a small mistake for Microsoft. They're too big for them to fire Steve over a billion dollar mistake. They still have multiple billion+ business. Im not saying they dont have massive problems, but that's absurd.
- adventured 13y agoThe mess that got Sinofsky fired, was ultimately Ballmer's fault, as the buck stops with the CEO. So this is clearly not limited to one $900m mistake.
- hga 13y ago"A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you're talking real money." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_Dirksen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_Dirksen)
- AmVess 13y agoMS has been making a litany of $bil mistakes. Keep in mind, the $900m is just the write down from slashing the price by $150. The real downer will come when they realize that those warehouses full of tablets with now outdated hardware will cost them 3 billion. In 2009, MS had OSes on 70%+ of hardware. Now, it's 21%. All that is from them missing mobile. They missed mobile in the same way IBM missed the PC market. If he truly was ousted, this is why. The untold billions of lost profit from missing out on mobile, not to mention the billions the lost on product failures, and I'm shocked the guy wasn't thrown out by security long ago.