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I've always wondered, Are these heavy bashing against Ballmer as someone he's incompetent or whatever the complaint is, right at all? I agree that Both Gates and Nadella are more of Techies and Ballmer was a Sales guy. But isn't he the guy who actually expanded MSFT Sales Network and made them grow with Office Suite of products?

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The way I see is that he was the right person for a certain role at a certain company size in a certain time period. That isn't CEO of Microsoft in 2019 but he served his purpose and became really rich through it.

I can’t help but feel Nadella is playing catch-up, and winning at it. It’s almost like Microsoft had a lost decade under Ballmer.

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