Steve Ballmer announces plan to retire

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NiKKoM said:

disolitude said:

Dr.J said:
Yeah, this guy has been a terrible CEO for MS. He has been wrong about so many changes in technology like the popularity of devices like the iPod, iPhone, iPad, and the vision to produce things like XB1 policies, Windows Vista... need I go on. MS really needs someone who is far less arrogant and actually has vision, not just trend follower who criticizes the products that consumers love and then turns around and makes bastard copies of like Zune/Surface/Windows latest set of phones.

Yet revenue and profits have been up every year under his tenure... You guys are all talking like tech fanboys and may have a point when it comes to consumer products but if you look at the bottom line and what matters, Microsoft is a insanely diverse, extremely profitable well oiled machine under Ballmer. 

this.. and its not like its easy to succeed in this industry and hire some guy who magicly will turn everything into gold.. look at the other companies like a Sony, LG, Nokia etc who are stuggeling with their products.. even Apple hasn't really found a new Steve Jobs.. otherwise other companies would have hired such a magician and they would all make billions in profit..

But he committed mistakes too, and some of them could have bad effects in the long term, but not in the short and middle ones. So leaving now could allow him to take all the merits but not be blamed for the errors that haven't immediate consequences.