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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.
Gates is still the Chairman.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/exec/billg/
Prisoner of Microsoft.
not
Project Object Model. :-)
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Never been known to fail..."