Slashdot Mirror
Maybe Steve Ballmer Doesn't Deserve the Hate
Nerval's Lobster writes "Who could forget Steve Ballmer's defining moment, that infamous 'Developers! Developers! Developers!' rant that became a YouTube hit? Or the reports of frighteningly accurate chair-throwing? Who could miss the tech media and investors blaming him for everything from Microsoft's largely stagnant stock price over the past decade to its inability to get in front of trends such as mobile devices? But tech columnist (and Kernel editor-in-chief) Milo Yiannopoulos talked to a bunch of Ballmer's friends and colleagues, picked through Microsoft's history, and came away with the argument that the man deserves a second look as an effective leader. 'He stands accused of running one of the greatest companies in American history into the ground, even as its stock price remains remarkably resilient and the company continues to turn a healthy profit,' he writes. 'The mature verdict on Steve Ballmer is that he has made only one major strategic error: not combining his own brilliance for sales and detail with a visionary product leader who has the authority to create bold new revenue streams for the company.' Do you agree? Or does Ballmer deserve his reputation as a bad CEO?"
Windows 7 is a failure too. Why?
It came out how many years late after XP?? Windows 7 should have come out in 2004 at the latest. Longhorn was bad. Vista was bad. Then Windows 7 but now the cost accountants at work noticed how much money they saved by using IE 6 and Xp for 10 years and how the competition didn't cream them for using older technology.
Now there is a resistance to change and a view that is a worthless cost center that adds no value. Gee thanks Balmer.
You do not see these same users and software that requires Mac OSX 10.0 do you? That is because of the updates Apple kept making without costing as money in collasol failures.
http://saveie6.com/