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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. We do live in a weird century by Trurl's+Machine · · Score: -1, Redundant

    The Ballmer response: Microsoft will have to do a better job of producing software whose benefits are clearly apparent to customers.

    Let's sum it up: Germans don't want to go to war, MacOS has CLI, white boy is the best raper - and now Microsoft wants to "produce software whose benefits are clearly apparent to customers"? Now where the hell did they get this revolutionary idea?

  2. ?Smart? quotes? by 42forty-two42 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    ÃâÅ"improve business consistencyÃâ so that customers are not hit with unexpected Ãââ and unwanted Ãââ changes.

    On my system, I'm seeing a's with ^'s over them, and euro symbols. What's up with that?
  3. Isn't WinME an Oxymoron? by fireman · · Score: -1, Redundant

    ... shouldn't that be LoseMe.

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