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Forbes Names Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Worst CEO
New submitter _0x783czar writes "Microsoft haters gleefully have latched on to the latest scoop that a Forbes columnist has named Steve Ballmer the worst CEO. It seems that the article has leveled some strong accusations of irresponsible and ineffective business practices; claiming that Microsoft has not progressed over the last 12 years of Ballmer's leadership. (Full disclosure: I'm not a Microsoft fan myself and tend to agree with this piece.)"
You don't need to say full disclosure just because you hold an opinion. That phrase is used if you have a vested interest in something. For instance "Full disclosure: I own Microsoft's competitor's stock" or "Full disclosure: I have an ongoing lawsuit with Steve Ballmer, because he allegedly once threw a chair at me".
Cool art gallery, if you're into that sort of thing.
TFA is about CEOs currently holding that position today. The RIM CEOs are gone already.
GM would be gone if not for the bail out
Strictly speaking, it wouldn't be gone, it would have gone through bankruptcy and been reorganized.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Mistreatment of employees? Microsoft does none of this.
"The last incidence of a threatened jump over labor conditions was at a plant producing Microsoft's Xbox 360."
http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/04/27/foxconn.central.china.plant.sees.protest/
http://www.examiner.com/article/brazilian-foxconn-workers-threaten-strike-over-poor-working-conditions
Microsoft's stock price - while fairly high - has remained constant for ten years, while many of its competitors have seen enormous growth
It has dropped, in real terms. You forgot about inflation. 100$ was worth more 10 years ago than today.
After all, I am strangely colored.
That annoyed me no end, the idea that GM would vanish, all its factories would vanish, all the cars it made would vanish, and all the workers would be left empty handed. No one could understand that the world was buying a certain number of cars and would continue to do so after a GM bankruptcy, and GM would reorganize and keep on building cars. Even if GM itself shuttered and all its factories stopped cold, other car factories would pick up the slack and most of those ex-GM workers would get jobs in the expanding factories.
All we heard was lamentations of misery with no common sense in sight. Pretty disgusting.
Infuriate left and right
It is also paying out a dividend. Also your analysis does not include any stock issuances or repurchases. Stock price alone is insufficient to gauge market performance
Gates is still the Chairman.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/exec/billg/
Prisoner of Microsoft.
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Project Object Model. :-)
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