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Forums - Microsoft Discussion - Who will replace Steve Ballmer? What does this mean for XBOX?

DJEVOLVE on 25 August 2013

 

 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who helped Bill Gates transform the company from a tiny startup into the world's most valuable business, announced plans Friday to retire with in the next 12 months.

What do you think this means for Xbox Division?

Personally I think it's time for a change. MS has been making the right moves as of late but the DRM disaster should have been seen and must have been tested.  I don't see how they didn't notice this would be a mess. With big companies like MS, they do sample group testing and they should know who to test and where. I assume Ballmer had a big hand in this and moved this full speed ahead.

Ballmer has done a good job but has dropped the ball at times. So I find this exciting and hope we see someone whos going to move the company forward as a whole and allow XBox One to push the limits of gaming capibilities.



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DJEVOLVE on 25 August 2013

Major Nelson. LOL J/k



landguy1 on 25 August 2013

I think they will go outside the company to get someone. Atleast I hope so.



chapset on 25 August 2013

I thnk they will shut down the Xbox division because it's not profitable enough for Microsoft and sell it to Nintendo that way they get Rare back



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Bladeforce on 25 August 2013

Some divisions will get split, i am guesing xbox will get either split or sold off and Microsoft will go back to being a software only company. They really havent made anything in the hardware side that has been any good to be honest only muscled in but never made anything a must have



"...the best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)

"Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox's house before I did and took the TV doesn't mean I can't go in later and take the stereo." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)

Bill Gates had Mac prototypes to work from, and he was known to be obsessed with trying to make Windows as good as SAND (Steve's Amazing New Device), as a Microsoft exec named it. It was the Mac that Microsoft took for its blueprint on how to make a GUI.

 

""Windows [n.] - A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.""

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endimion on 25 August 2013
chapset said:
I thnk they will shut down the Xbox division because it's not profitable enough for Microsoft and sell it to Nintendo that way they get Rare back

lol even if nintendo wanted to buy XB they couldn't

and why would MS sell rare even if they sell XB.... they've been doing games since way before XB came out....

but don't worry XB is not going anywhere....



Fusioncode on 25 August 2013

Microsoft has invested billions in the Xbox One, no way they would sell it off right now.



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Zappykins on 25 August 2013

Balmer certainly has been a champion of the Xbox and it's development. At this point now, I think it has enough of it's on momentum to carry it. It's lost Don too this year.

It's one of Microsoft's big pushes to bring their New User Interface to the public. Sort of like how they should have come out with the Surface back a decade ago when they were showing things like it and long before ipad.

Whoever takes over hopefully will lead Xbox and the Kinect Revolution in the right direction.



 

Really not sure I see any point of Consol over PC's since Kinect, Wii and other alternative ways to play have been abandoned. 

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9087 on 25 August 2013

Who knows? That's the scary thing.



nanarchy on 25 August 2013
Bladeforce said:
Some divisions will get split, i am guesing xbox will get either split or sold off and Microsoft will go back to being a software only company. They really havent made anything in the hardware side that has been any good to be honest only muscled in but never made anything a must have


More likely the opposite. Microsoft will push harder into the devices market, it is critical in today's world if they wish to grow. They have a long history of very successful hardware by the way, their mice and keyboards have been excellent for a long time, Xbox is also very good, surface hardware wise is also exceptionally good, it just missed the target market a little.