Ballmer can't resist another "Developers!" cry

Tin (User):

Someone please lock that man up... If there's one thing MS needs to do to fix the company, it's remove him.

erikf888 (New user):

Agree, Ballmer is damaging a once great company- sack the monkey ASAP

Tin (User):

I might add that despite me seeing the problem, I'm quite happy for them to not fix it... Ballmer is my preferred candidate to run MS into the ground. I do feel sorry for Bill though.

petert (Advanced Forumologist):

Is it true that the Oxford Dictionary defines the word "moron" simply as Steve Ballmer?

straker135 (User):

Quoting petert: Is it true that the Oxford Dictionary defines the word "moron" simply as Steve Ballmer?

I think that Steve Ballmer is a buffoon rather than a moron. He is also, in my opinion, one of MS biggest liabilities.
Have you ever looked at the body language in photos of Steve and Bill together? I think Bill is a bit uncomfortable around Steve.
Microsoft (a software company that makes some hardware)is a bigger more diverse company than Apple (a hardware company that makes some software) so it is easier for important things like WinMobile and HD Media devices like Zune to drift off into obscurity. Having said that the CEO is the chief and sets the priorities and strategic agenda for others to operationalise. Steve Jobs is superb at this and his bloody minded determination to only produce excellent products with a clean, elegant and strong design ethic is the secret to Apple's success to date, when he wasn't at the helm the company came perilously close to disaster. Steve Ballmer seems to be someone who is doing the job because he wanted it, was on the spot and a very strong personality, not because he actually has any vision or strategic nouse apart from cold business cunning. If you watch him trying to articulate anything he doesn't seem to have a coherent vision of his own, more like autopilot on a slow glide into obscurity. Sad really. People like Steve Sinofsky are clearly very talented and capable and can get the job done to a high level. His role is not strategy of the company as a whole so it is hard to know whether he could take over the top job, should it be up for grabs and assuming he was even interested. I dont see anyone who should just slot in, when we see the sharks circling we will know the big B is about to go.

Aubrey (New user):

Am I just old fashioned, or do the poor language skills of such highly paid and influential people cause others to do the old "what's the world coming to?" thing?

Between Reality TV on every channel, loony climate change deniers getting air time and having a cretin in charge of one of the most powerful companies on earth, I reckon western civilisation must be in the final phase of collapse. Might as well pull a wave over the bonce and be done with it.

Oh, and merry christmas everyone!

apt.pupil (New user):

i was watching an early Microsoft windows commercial that Steve did when one of the earlier versions of windows was being released.

His blunders have never ceased to amaze me. Knowing him, he probably saw the red and green underlines and thought "gee, what wonderful text decorations"