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- inactive, on 05/04/2008, -22/+141Ballmer is the poster child for everything that is wrong with MS.
- Szandor, on 05/04/2008, -17/+134Ballmer should've left years ago. Microsoft needs a paradigm shift; away from monolithic practices to producing a great, not just sufficient, OS.
- grumpychris, on 05/04/2008, -20/+100I say let him stay. He's been great for Apple marketshare.
- dfekke, on 05/04/2008, -12/+73Yes.
- woofers07, on 05/04/2008, -2/+50They need to "think outside the box" with their "paradigm shift" and develop their "sinergies" and other business jargon.
- inactive, on 05/04/2008, -17/+62One has to hand it to Microsoft, when it comes to getting what they want, even when it appears they don't get what they want, they in fact, get what they want. Believe me, they will... get...what...they...want. It's Yahoo! Dead or Alive.
- techweenie, on 05/04/2008, -9/+50Ballmer's key job qualification was that he was Gates' poker buddy. As a manager, he's been a serial failure.
- copypastry, on 05/05/2008, -7/+47DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS
- conmulligan, on 05/05/2008, -2/+39I'm not so sure; Microsoft's been making a lot of mistakes in the online sector for years, a bloody takeover of Yahoo! is the latest in a long line of misguided maneuvers. It seems to me that Microsoft hasn't been getting what they want in quite a while...
- YodaJones, on 05/04/2008, -9/+41The answer is yes. Steve Ballmer is a ranting raving lunatic without one iota of technical competence who is supposed to be running a high tech company.
- gizzymo, on 05/04/2008, -21/+51"sufficient" seems a tad generous.... :)
- KMartSheriff, on 05/05/2008, -0/+27Did you even read what he posted?
- samk, on 05/04/2008, -5/+31After Yahoo shares plummet on Monday, the Board will lose the support of its shareholders (there may even be a few lawsuits), and Microsoft will be in a stronger position. Just watch.
- inactive, on 05/04/2008, -1/+26Putting the bias aside, it's a shame because he has been with Microsoft since the car advertisement-like Microsoft ads but in this era he is dragging the company down, not only him, so many other executives that we don't hear about in the news. But as someone before me said: Ballmer is the poster child for everything that is wrong with Microsoft. They're way too chained to the 80s and 90s business techniques. If Microsoft wants to change its image it will have to give Ballmer a back seat.
- vfreak2, on 05/05/2008, -2/+25Does Balamer need to go? What kind of a question is that? Balmer would try to terrorise the world and his competitors even if he ran a toy shop.
- GorfTron, on 05/04/2008, -9/+31Ballmer is a screaming fathead.
- gcnaddict, on 05/04/2008, -3/+25Digg broke the links, yay!
Let's try this again:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/devaan/def ...
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/benfathi/d ...
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/jawadk/def ...
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/julielar/d ...
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/mnash/defa ...
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/ssinofsky/ ...
*prays Digg doesn't cut the ends of the URLs off this time* - peestandingup, on 05/04/2008, -15/+35Yes. MS has made a practice of gobbling up other companies & resources so they don't have to develop things themselves. Think about it. What have they really done the past 5 years that has made an impact?? They have just been maintaining & riding the coat tails of their successful past.
Once you become complacent you're done. - sleeknerve, on 05/04/2008, -1/+21thats the thing, they wont compete with google, they will have to stick with other things
- gcnaddict, on 05/04/2008, -12/+32If you guys want a better OS, it's not Ballmer who should worry you. These guys should be the ones your complaints should go to:
Jon DeVaan: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/devaan/def ...
Ben Fathi: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/benfathi/d ...
Jawad Khaki: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/jawadk/def ...
Julie Larson-Green: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/julielar/d ...
Mike Nash: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/mnash/defa ...
and the most important one:
Steven Sinofsky: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/ssinofsky/ ...
Steven replaced Jim Allchin after the Longhorn/Vista fiasco. Allchin retired once Vista launched. Honestly, Steven will probably do a much better job.
No contact details exist on those pages, but I can try and arrange an interview at PDC08 with the one(s?) you guys want to hear from the most. Just reply below me with your choice(s) + questions. - gcnaddict, on 05/05/2008, -2/+19I know, but a lot of people on Digg disagree.
Plus, Vista could've been about a million times better than it ended up being. Oh well. - BelatedHero, on 05/05/2008, -1/+17Isn't the man worth like $15 billion? Why does he even bother?
- inactive, on 05/04/2008, -10/+26Maybe he should concentrate on developers. developers. developers. developers. developers
BSOD - Yodacola, on 05/05/2008, -0/+16The worst business practice is trying to be another company. Apple tried this and nearly went bankrupt.
- a1lostnomad, on 05/04/2008, -2/+17Yes, Ballmer doesn't have the poise to be CEO of Microsoft. He's trying to use pages out of Larry Ellison's playbook in the internet market and it just doesn't work...
- inactive, on 05/05/2008, -4/+19You're not a psycho, not at all. You would never go at someone's house and drown his dog in the pool just because he took your parking spot earlier.
- inactive, on 05/05/2008, -0/+15maybe he should switch to USB!
- bikepundit, on 05/05/2008, -3/+17He probably doesn't care either way, he'll just buy yahoo for himself with his severance package
- inactive, on 05/05/2008, -4/+18Steve...take your DRM infesting control-freakiness and micro-transaction software subsciption greediness and some soap and then go soak your head in the sink, like beans.
You blew the best tech monopoly opportunity in the history of mankind. I hate monopolistic practices, but you had such a strong and widespread user base with Windows 2K and XP, you could have issued SP after SP, with cool features (like BitLocker and Aero). Charged retail for XP with those new SPs slipstreamed and let the geeks DL the new SPs and show them off.
Oh? Didn't think of that? You're fired. - ArthurSucks, on 05/05/2008, -0/+13The image of Ballmer screaming at children makes me laugh.
- MavRevMatt, on 05/04/2008, -16/+29Hell yes.
- Rogozhin, on 05/05/2008, -1/+14Hell yes he needs to go. He just propagates that old mantra of 'assimilate without merit'. He's also much too highly paid for what his CEO duties entail.
- loganisamonkey, on 05/05/2008, -0/+13Because that's how Digg works.
- sgtpppr, on 05/05/2008, -0/+12People like this don't work simply for money. They work to dominate and to be successful. They just use money as a measurement of that success. Personally, I would love to have $10 million and just buy a huge part of Costa Rica and live out the rest of my life half-asleep on the beach.
- KMartSheriff, on 05/05/2008, -2/+14and useless for the most part, as most games require Gold
- sgtpppr, on 05/05/2008, -1/+13Generally headed by those who openly believe all corporations and business in general is inherently evil.
- xerexes1, on 05/05/2008, -2/+14Donald Rumsfield, is that you?
- indiekiduk, on 05/05/2008, -1/+12always a classic
- BOFH2, on 05/04/2008, -1/+12The question would be "who is on point" on that one?
- lacreme, on 05/04/2008, -3/+13this is all just part of microsoft's plan.
i think, it's pretty unpredictable with a guy like ballmer - lacreme, on 05/04/2008, -12/+22xbox live
- TheWriteGuy, on 05/05/2008, -5/+15Finally somebody in the tech media press is stating the obvious.
Yes, Ballmer needs to go. He has absolutely no respect for "developers, developers, developers". He is a jock meathead. Microsoft, and the industry, needs a genuine tech head in charge of things... someone like a younger version of Bill Gates but with lots more savvy, intuition and heart. - AWBoy666, on 05/05/2008, -6/+15Yahoo was lucky to get MS to offer $33.....they were below $20 when the deal was first leaked. YHOO is just being greedy. I'm shocked that Microsoft's board would even approve $33. (this coming from a finance MBA).
Yahoo probably won't find a better offer. This will still happen IMHO. - jfowler27, on 05/05/2008, -1/+10Yes.
- opnickc, on 05/05/2008, -0/+9USB IS serial - Universal Serial Bus. The joke would've made sense if you said he should be parallel.
- DeathJux, on 05/05/2008, -0/+8Digg only breaks the links when your URLs are too long and you re-edit your post after posting. The edit only takes into account the part of the URL that's showing, not the original proper URL.
- inactive, on 05/05/2008, -3/+11"Don't worry. What ever Microsoft produces will always suck ass every time."
Fixed - BrendanSheehan, on 05/05/2008, -5/+13But if he walks away Microsoft will lose its chair-throwing culture ;)
In all seriousness, what the ***** is up with digg and Safari. It's going on for about 4 months now, on and off. Digg, get your act together will you. Comment sent from Firefox. Damn! -
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