Steve Ballmer announces plan to retire

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radha on 23 August 2013

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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.

"Microsoft is a insanely diverse, extremely profitable well oiled machine under Ballmer."

That is what he got in the first place, he did not improve the company

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sales2099 on 23 August 2013

Well, he kinda missed the whole tablet and smartphone craze until it was too late. Also trusting Don Mattrick too much and let Xbox division ruin 8 years of a solid 360 foundation to build upon.

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theRepublic on 23 August 2013

Wonder if they will get rid of this now that Ballmer is gone?

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Alby_da_Wolf on 24 August 2013

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Wonder if they will get rid of this now that Ballmer is gone?

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A system quite worthy of Ballmer's aggressive Gordon Gecko attitude...

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Alby_da_Wolf on 29 August 2013

Only 26 (including this) posts for Lardmer's retirement thread? How ungrateful for the man that redefined the words "sweat", "dance", "cocaine trip" and "DEVELOPERS"!!!

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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.

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=MSFT+Interactive#symbol=msft;range=my;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;

substract inflation, and there you have it.