Ballmer Sends Wakeup Call to Staff

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday June 5, 2003 @12:30AM from the good-morning-good-morning dept.

Puneet writes "An MSNBC article outlines details of how the world's biggest software company seems to be facing a technology gap. Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft, sent a memo across the company basically saying that with no immediate breakthroughs in technology coming, and with the Linux computer operating system and a batch of other open-source programs biting at its heels, Microsoft will have to do a better job of persuading customers it has something they need. . Microsoft must "improve business consistency" so that customers are not hit with unexpected - and unwanted - changes. Also covered by Forbes but in lesser detail."

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This is hilarious! by Windows+Dude · 2003-06-05 07:13 · Score: 1, Flamebait

I know that the moderators of this board are also Open Source advocates, so I am sure to get negative Karma for this. The replys to this thread are absolutely hilarious. What you remind me of is Iran in 1979. The Islamic fundamentalists running around yelling "Death to America!", and they had (and still don't have) the ability to do anything about it. Everyone here is running around yelling "Death to Microsoft!" Thanks for the humor. Using the picture of Bill Gates as a borg just shows the maturity level of all the zealots here. To quote William Shatner.. "Get a Life!!!!"