Maybe Steve Ballmer Doesn't Deserve the Hate 240
Nerval's Lobster writes "Who could forget Steve Ballmer's defining moment, that infamous 'Developers! Developers! Developers!' rant that became a YouTube hit? Or the reports of frighteningly accurate chair-throwing? Who could miss the tech media and investors blaming him for everything from Microsoft's largely stagnant stock price over the past decade to its inability to get in front of trends such as mobile devices? But tech columnist (and Kernel editor-in-chief) Milo Yiannopoulos talked to a bunch of Ballmer's friends and colleagues, picked through Microsoft's history, and came away with the argument that the man deserves a second look as an effective leader. 'He stands accused of running one of the greatest companies in American history into the ground, even as its stock price remains remarkably resilient and the company continues to turn a healthy profit,' he writes. 'The mature verdict on Steve Ballmer is that he has made only one major strategic error: not combining his own brilliance for sales and detail with a visionary product leader who has the authority to create bold new revenue streams for the company.' Do you agree? Or does Ballmer deserve his reputation as a bad CEO?"
He deserves it (Score:5, Funny)
He's a bald CEO, there's no denying it.
Oh wait, you said bad CEO. My mistake.
Hard to argue with regular quarterly profits (Score:3, Funny)
Many of which are usually a record for the company, even if it's a company that hasn't used it's brilliant engineering talent to maximum effect. Oh wait, this is /. uh, Microsoft is Satan, all hail our savior lord FOSS.
Steve is that you? (Score:5, Funny)
I think we found out Steve Ballmer's /. account name
Re:Hard to argue with regular quarterly profits (Score:5, Funny)
and open-source projects are pointless because thousands of programmers pulling in different directions.
Just like the universe is pointless because thousands of galaxy clusters pull in different directions...hey, wait a minute...