"There were many reasons for the decline of Microsoft under Steve Ballmer" Yes, when I read the opening sentence of the OA, my first thought was 'perhaps the t

"There were many reasons for the decline of Microsoft under Steve Ballmer" Yes, when I read the opening sentence of the OA, my first thought was 'perhaps the thing that needs explaining is Microsoft's amazing success in the 1990s'. The rest is the usual random walk of any publicly quoted megacorp, attempting to function under huge weight of the structure.