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Will Microsoft get rid of Ballmer?
Comment Newsweek conjectures it will
By Ed Berridge
RECENTLY the US news magazine Newsweek predicted that next year shy and retiring Microsoft CEO Steve "there's a kind of hush" Ballmer will be handed his P45 and pink slip.
Newsweek's basis for its prediction is its view that Ballmer has not delivered. Since Bill Gates departed from the Vole to save Africans from all sorts of medical conditions, Microsoft has stumbled and lost much of its former teflon-coated image.
A blog claims that the Volish board will finally push out Steve Ballmer from the CEO position next year, just as soon as one of them is brave enough to tell him.
In the run up to Christmas, Ballmer's fingerprints have been seen on the Vole's biggest mis-steps in the last ten years.
Windows Vista was Microsoft's biggest failure in the company's history, and the firm's stock is now worth only half what it once was. Ballmer has also managed to stand still while some of the greatest tech booms sailed over his head. Internet search, mp3 players, online music - you name it, Steve missed it.
Perhaps the biggest problem was that Ballmer completely missed the mobile and netbook operating systems bandwagon and saw the Vole's Windows Mobile fall like a stone, right out of the mobile market.
Ballmer did not see that Apple and Google were moving in on the Vole's mobile territory. Microsoft had always sold its mobile operating system to businesses on the basis that it synced well with its server software. Now even businesses are starting to think that there is more to life than that.
Yet to be fair to Steve he had jumped into the hotseat just as the economy tanked and Gates did have a hand in many of the directions that Microsoft has taken over the last ten years.
Steve might well have to pull some rabbits out of his hat quite soon to survive 2010.
But Newsweek hasn't liked Steve much for a while. In October it said that Steve was not the man that Gates was. When he became CEO, everyone was frightened of the Vole but lately it's been seen as "being nice".
"Microsoft was still the meanest, mightiest tech company in the world, a juggernaut that bullied friends and foes alike and which possessed an operating-system franchise that was practically a license to print money. Techies likened Microsoft to the Borg on Star Trek, the evil collective that insatiably assimilates everything around it, with the slogan, 'Resistance is futile.'", Newsweek said.
"Now, instead of being scary, Microsoft has become a bit of a joke," it said. This is ironic as Steve's own reputation is one of chair tossing enthusiasm. But we guess there is more to being a CEO of a major software company than shouting at people.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1566790/will-microsoft-rid-ballmer
Comment Newsweek conjectures it will
By Ed Berridge
RECENTLY the US news magazine Newsweek predicted that next year shy and retiring Microsoft CEO Steve "there's a kind of hush" Ballmer will be handed his P45 and pink slip.
Newsweek's basis for its prediction is its view that Ballmer has not delivered. Since Bill Gates departed from the Vole to save Africans from all sorts of medical conditions, Microsoft has stumbled and lost much of its former teflon-coated image.
A blog claims that the Volish board will finally push out Steve Ballmer from the CEO position next year, just as soon as one of them is brave enough to tell him.
In the run up to Christmas, Ballmer's fingerprints have been seen on the Vole's biggest mis-steps in the last ten years.
Windows Vista was Microsoft's biggest failure in the company's history, and the firm's stock is now worth only half what it once was. Ballmer has also managed to stand still while some of the greatest tech booms sailed over his head. Internet search, mp3 players, online music - you name it, Steve missed it.
Perhaps the biggest problem was that Ballmer completely missed the mobile and netbook operating systems bandwagon and saw the Vole's Windows Mobile fall like a stone, right out of the mobile market.
Ballmer did not see that Apple and Google were moving in on the Vole's mobile territory. Microsoft had always sold its mobile operating system to businesses on the basis that it synced well with its server software. Now even businesses are starting to think that there is more to life than that.
Yet to be fair to Steve he had jumped into the hotseat just as the economy tanked and Gates did have a hand in many of the directions that Microsoft has taken over the last ten years.
Steve might well have to pull some rabbits out of his hat quite soon to survive 2010.
But Newsweek hasn't liked Steve much for a while. In October it said that Steve was not the man that Gates was. When he became CEO, everyone was frightened of the Vole but lately it's been seen as "being nice".
"Microsoft was still the meanest, mightiest tech company in the world, a juggernaut that bullied friends and foes alike and which possessed an operating-system franchise that was practically a license to print money. Techies likened Microsoft to the Borg on Star Trek, the evil collective that insatiably assimilates everything around it, with the slogan, 'Resistance is futile.'", Newsweek said.
"Now, instead of being scary, Microsoft has become a bit of a joke," it said. This is ironic as Steve's own reputation is one of chair tossing enthusiasm. But we guess there is more to being a CEO of a major software company than shouting at people.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1566790/will-microsoft-rid-ballmer
