Because Gabe is an engineer and engineers have an insatiable need to fix things and microsoft needs fixing.
But I don't buy it either. I think it would scare the pants off of the corporate customers of MS.
But I don't buy it either. I think it would scare the pants off of the corporate customers of MS.
Having Gabe in sufficient control of non technical managers may well work, but then you could switch Gabe out for any trustable non-manager.
Ballmer's erratic leadership is scaring the pants off of customers, ISVs, and IHVs alike. In fact, the only people who still have their pants are Microsoft's competitors.