The issues are considerably more substantive than just poor decisions. The thing that really jumps out at me is the allegation that the Surface RT sales situation was concealed in the previous quarterly report, when Microsoft already had the data and shareholders should have been informed of it. Never mind Ballmer's shameless posturing for the press.
Sculley, who had Apple branch out into every random consumer electronic category he could think of, including digital cameras, videogame consoles, CD players, speakers, television STBs, and even television/computer hybrids, every single one of which flopped?
Isn't Apple sending out buzz that it will save itself with TVs and watches now?
Do tell. With arguably the most user hostile interfaces ever created for anything. Who buys that crap? There is a special place in hell for both the buyer and seller.
You probably did. From time to time Ballmer issues an order to ramp up the web share for IIS, so a couple M$ salesmen drop by to bribe the usual suspects at godaddy. Of course all they get is parked domains, and only for a while.
I presume that godaddy only ever moves its parked domains to IIS when M$FT hands over a new bag of payola. Then they drift back to Linux at their convenience, lather, rinse, repeat. Must be a profitable little scam.
No. Microsoft picked up a bunch of parked domains and its long term trend is still down, even for parked domains. In terms of active sites, Microsoft's trend is steadily down, now around 12% and sinking. And it is indeed nginx that is mainly picking up share from Apache, though Google is hanging in there pretty well too. This puff piece glosses over the one fact that can't be denied: Linux servers rule the web by a large and increasing margin.
Oh Patton was a genius all right, much more than Tim Armstrong no doubt. And not just at rallying the troops - the Nazis were more afraid of Patton than any other allied commander and assumed he would lead any invasion of Europe. The point is, losing it with the troops can be career limiting for anyone, even a military genius, let alone a moron like Armstrong.
Firing someone for doing what they normally do is a dick move...
Firing someone in front of the entire company is an utra dick move that arguably puts the company on the wrong side of the law. Don't take my word for it, get some popcorn sit back for the lawsuit. I will go out on a limb here and predict that this asshole's days are numbered as a CEO.
Wow, I didn't realize right away, this asshole is yet another product of Google's asshole factory (former president of Google Americas). Should give you an idea what it is like to actually worik there, as opposed to the myth.
If I had stock in AOL, I'd be making the call to sell it all.
In fact, it looks like an attractive short. 100% runup over period of a year followed by flat for a year, followed by this outburst, certain to drive away whatever talent remains. P/E of 29, that's a little rich for a company with no realistic growth story and a baboon for a CEO. Hmmm.
Normal behavior would be to ask the employee to stop the undesirable behavior, then if the behavior persists, disciplinary action could be taken, including termination if other remedies are exhausted. This CEO is an out of control psychopath and a hazard to the company. A lawsuit is inevitable.
I was under the impression that Google intended to segment the market into Chrome OS for laptops and desktops and Android for tablets and phones.
Another way of segmenting the market is: products people want and products people do not want. The market has sent Google a clear message that if the gadget looks like a laptop then it better act like a laptop. As it stands, Chromebook sells only a bit better than Surface RT. Well, they make pretty good Linux laptops so from that point of view I hope Google keeps selling them. But if Google really wants an entry point to the "real computer" market then they would be better off playing the Android card. Of course that would mean adding a real window manager. Mandatory full screen is just not something laptop users are ever going to accept.
My prediction: Google is just going to keep beating this dead horse because if there is one thing Google has more of than anything else, it's hubris.
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Gelsinger should shut up and get down to the hard work of delivering a compelling cloud platfom from his own company.
The issues are considerably more substantive than just poor decisions. The thing that really jumps out at me is the allegation that the Surface RT sales situation was concealed in the previous quarterly report, when Microsoft already had the data and shareholders should have been informed of it. Never mind Ballmer's shameless posturing for the press.
Sculley, who had Apple branch out into every random consumer electronic category he could think of, including digital cameras, videogame consoles, CD players, speakers, television STBs, and even television/computer hybrids, every single one of which flopped?
Isn't Apple sending out buzz that it will save itself with TVs and watches now?
Aging hipsters.
Do tell. With arguably the most user hostile interfaces ever created for anything. Who buys that crap? There is a special place in hell for both the buyer and seller.
"Just imagine Oracle without Larry Ellison!"
what benefit does GoDaddy hope to realize with IIS?
It's a lot cheaper for Micro$oft to pump up IIS by paying off godaddy than spending tons of money on devs, and you know, testing.
You probably did. From time to time Ballmer issues an order to ramp up the web share for IIS, so a couple M$ salesmen drop by to bribe the usual suspects at godaddy. Of course all they get is parked domains, and only for a while.
I presume that godaddy only ever moves its parked domains to IIS when M$FT hands over a new bag of payola. Then they drift back to Linux at their convenience, lather, rinse, repeat. Must be a profitable little scam.
it's Microsoft IIS that has picked up share.
No. Microsoft picked up a bunch of parked domains and its long term trend is still down, even for parked domains. In terms of active sites, Microsoft's trend is steadily down, now around 12% and sinking. And it is indeed nginx that is mainly picking up share from Apache, though Google is hanging in there pretty well too. This puff piece glosses over the one fact that can't be denied: Linux servers rule the web by a large and increasing margin.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/08/09/august-2013-web-server-survey.html#more-12060
I suppose that 4G is paltry for a Microsoft OS...
Surface pro apparently outsells chromebook
It's hard working with nothing but genius...
So which genius at Google hired this dick?
Oh Patton was a genius all right, much more than Tim Armstrong no doubt. And not just at rallying the troops - the Nazis were more afraid of Patton than any other allied commander and assumed he would lead any invasion of Europe. The point is, losing it with the troops can be career limiting for anyone, even a military genius, let alone a moron like Armstrong.
It's also a story about the kind of execs that Google nurtures. Another one is running yahoo. Funny that.
You said "he had it coming", where "it" must be understood as humiliation in front of their peers. Saying such a thing kind of outs you.
Firing someone for doing what they normally do is a dick move...
Firing someone in front of the entire company is an utra dick move that arguably puts the company on the wrong side of the law. Don't take my word for it, get some popcorn sit back for the lawsuit. I will go out on a limb here and predict that this asshole's days are numbered as a CEO.
Wow, I didn't realize right away, this asshole is yet another product of Google's asshole factory (former president of Google Americas). Should give you an idea what it is like to actually worik there, as opposed to the myth.
To be sure, that is because Google finance's search engine is broken beyond repair, but it's still funny.
Result of searching for "aol growth prospects" on finance.google.com:
Your search - aol growth prospects - produced no matches.
If I had stock in AOL, I'd be making the call to sell it all.
In fact, it looks like an attractive short. 100% runup over period of a year followed by flat for a year, followed by this outburst, certain to drive away whatever talent remains. P/E of 29, that's a little rich for a company with no realistic growth story and a baboon for a CEO. Hmmm.
Say, you're not a closet pyschopath yourself are you?
Where is the "news" in this?
Seriously? Egregious bad acting gets more eyeballs than almost anything. That is about society protecting itself.
Normal behavior would be to ask the employee to stop the undesirable behavior, then if the behavior persists, disciplinary action could be taken, including termination if other remedies are exhausted. This CEO is an out of control psychopath and a hazard to the company. A lawsuit is inevitable.
Here is a classic example of a career limiting explosion
I was under the impression that Google intended to segment the market into Chrome OS for laptops and desktops and Android for tablets and phones.
Another way of segmenting the market is: products people want and products people do not want. The market has sent Google a clear message that if the gadget looks like a laptop then it better act like a laptop. As it stands, Chromebook sells only a bit better than Surface RT. Well, they make pretty good Linux laptops so from that point of view I hope Google keeps selling them. But if Google really wants an entry point to the "real computer" market then they would be better off playing the Android card. Of course that would mean adding a real window manager. Mandatory full screen is just not something laptop users are ever going to accept.
My prediction: Google is just going to keep beating this dead horse because if there is one thing Google has more of than anything else, it's hubris.