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Ballmer Hits 10th Anniversary As Microsoft CEO
bednarz writes "Ten years ago on Jan. 13, 2000, Microsoft's Bill Gates turned over the CEO reins to Steve Ballmer. Back in 2000, Microsoft was still under threat of being broken up by the Department of Justice. Today, Ballmer is trying to meld enterprise and cloud computing. He has spent the past decade working through lawsuits, mergers, acquisitions, competitive battles and, of course, new software including Windows 7, which could become the legacy of his leadership at Microsoft. Not that we'll ever forget Ballmer's 'developers, developers, developers' rant."
"Microsoft: A Decade of Failure"
It would be interesting to see how the "personality" of Microsoft will change when Steve "Dancing Monkey-Boy" Ballmer finally leaves Microsoft.
Maybe it will become a "friendlier" company as a result.
In recent years Steve "my other monopoly is sweat glands" Ballmer seems to be hindering the company and maybe a fresh perspective by someone is needed for Microsoft.
It seems that since Bill Gates has left the company the attitude of Microsoft has "softened" (I use that word in the loosest possible terms!) towards Open Source stuff and begrudgingly partly accepting (again in the loosest possible terms) it.
After all, look at the completely unnecessary work his ideas have provided for us.
After all, VB6 couldn't be automatically upgraded to VB.net. Neither C# nor VB.net forms projects can be automatically upgraded to ASP.net, C++.net. (Of course most C++ code somehow magically runs in the .net environment).
Yes, we're all enjoying the benefits of that wonderful CIL. It's just provided the folks on the ground *so* many benefits like, um, er... Well uh, .........
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