Ballmer Turns To Geeks For Salvation

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @02:10PM from the good-luck-with-that dept.

jfruhlinger writes "One of the critiques of Steve Ballmer as Microsoft CEO is that, as someone who came up through sales, he doesn't really get what running an innovative tech company is about. With the company board starting to question his performance — he didn't get his bonus last year because of the Kin debacle, for instance — it appears that Ballmer is planning to install engineers in high places to turn the company around."

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Re:Please get Rid of the Stupid Borg Icon (Score:4, Informative)

by operagost ( 62405 ) writes: on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @03:00PM (#35141196) Homepage Journal

People have been telling them for years that the American flag icon is missing a red stripe at the top, but they don't care about that. Good luck!

Re:What is happening to america? (Score:5, Informative)

by 3vi1 ( 544505 ) writes: on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @03:44PM (#35141710) Homepage Journal

He *did* get his bonus. In fact, he got 100% of his bonus ($670,000). What he didn't get was the 200% max-possible payout that he could have gotten MS not screwed the mobile pooch.

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