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Ballmer Sends Wakeup Call to Staff

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. FP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP!

  2. Fourth post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh yeah

    1. Re:Fourth post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Dammit, GigsVT, you screwed me up!

  3. offtopic by more+fool+you · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In the box with "related links", I see there's a "more on". Then I see the editor on duty is michael. And I think to myself, "ah, of course".

  4. Whats †by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Maybe I need to go back to school

  5. Re:puff, puff by MrNemesis · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm sure if Microsoft could nicotine to a product, they would.


    So that's where the brown stains come from...

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  6. Get yer quotation marks straight by YeOldeGnurd · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    The contributor says "Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft, sent a memo across the company basically saying [my emphasis] 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."

    The actual article at MSNBC says:
    HIS MESSAGE: 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.


    It's not kosher to lift a complex sentence like that from the article, preceded by "basically saying...."

    When I read slashdot I expect journalistic integrity [insert laughtrack here]. Okay, but I at least hope that y'all can do better than the New York Times.
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  7. Re:Trustworthy computing by jkrise · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Actuallt the problem seems to be with the codebase - NT. Guess it stands for Not Trustworthy. If MS wants to stop leaky emails, they'd have to rewrite the entire code from scratch. Probably explains the SCO license :-)

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  9. Insider Trading? by StAugustineLovesYou · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    If he real feels that MSFT is in trouble, and that their upcomming technologies will fail to be winners in the marketplace, then does this dumping of stock qualify as insider trading?

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