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Ballmer Turns To Geeks For Salvation

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the good-luck-with-that dept.

jfruhlinger writes "One of the critiques of Steve Ballmer as Microsoft CEO is that, as someone who came up through sales, he doesn't really get what running an innovative tech company is about. With the company board starting to question his performance — he didn't get his bonus last year because of the Kin debacle, for instance — it appears that Ballmer is planning to install engineers in high places to turn the company around."

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  1. Re:Steve Jobs started in electronics (was Re:lolwu by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    During high school he attended after-school lectures at HP and was later hired there (alongside Steve Wozniak), then after dropping out of Reed College he worked as a technician at Atari.

    William

    Yes that impresses and awes real engineers everywhere. Jobs is a salesman, not an engineer, you stupid fanboi nigger.