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Why Ballmer Should Leave Microsoft
An anonymous reader writes "In the wake of the announcement of Bill Gates' departure from the top spot at Microsoft, CNN Money is carrying an article arguing that Steve Ballmer should step down as well." From the article: "Since Gates stepped down as CEO in 2000 in favor of Ballmer, the company has floundered technically and strategically. As the company's chairman, chief software architect and supposed visionary, Gates deserves blame for missing the wave of Web-based software that has propelled Google and Yahoo. But Ballmer has made gaffes of his own in his longtime role as head of the company's business side. They include an undistinguished push into business applications to compete with Oracle, financial maneuvers that have failed to stir the stock - which has slumped 16 percent so far this year - and continuing antitrust problems in the United States and Europe."
For *YOU* specifically, you mean? Maybe. For the Europeans who love free market and loathe governmental regulation, not at all.
So tell me, as you like the gov't regulating stuff so much, how do you feel about it regulating the usage of digital music & video, through DRM for example? Suddenly you don't like big government any more? Hypocrytes.
Global warming is a cube.
Yanno what? From now on, if you find yourself writing a sentence that contains the words 'Microsoft' and any form of 'innovate', just scrub it and start over. Your IQ in the eyes of your readers takes a dip every time you write a sentence like that. This needs to be added to English textbooks, right under double negatives.
Unpleasantries.
Executives! Executives! Executives! Executives! Executives! Executives! Executives! Executives! There...nice pit stains!
Stop that. $ stands for dollars, so sticking "dollars" on the end of that is redundant. Say either "$4 billion" or "4 billion dollars", or even "4 billion USD".
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
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