"Microsoft is extremely competitive with apple and google, even in 2012" makes a good sound bite. All you have to do is ignore context.
Ballmer should have been fired ages ago. Clearly he has dirt on the board or something. The guy is a bafoon.
Ballmer should have been fired ages ago. Clearly he has dirt on the board or something. The guy is a bafoon.
Ballmer is the second largest shareholder in Microsoft, after his friend and 30 year business associate, Gates.
To put it another way, there isn't a Wall Street analyst who works for a company or fund with a greater stake in Microsoft than Ballmer.
It is hard to innovate if you are always one step behind and need to shoehorn everything into Windows and Office.
Disclaimer: I work in the same building as Steve Ballmer.
I hope you get paid well for your shame.
But, Ballmer had nearly 20 years experience running teams in a large and successful technology company before he was became CEO.
Furthermore, the dude has a mathematics degree (with honors) from Harvard. That means that he probably earned an 'A' in Math 55, the hardest undergraduate course at Harvard[1], which implies that he would have no trouble keeping up with most of the theoretical computer science stuff.
For some reason I had it in my head that Bill and Steve took Math 55 together.
> While at Harvard, he met Steve Ballmer, who later succeeded Gates as CEO of Microsoft.
In the age of the web though, the market will now continue to out step Ballmer and whatever Harvard theoretical math he could throw at his developers developers developers developers.