Microsoft shareholder calls for Ballmer's head Microsoft, in an extraordinary move earlier this week, described its CEO's comments about Windows 8 as a "misstatement". Despite that, Steve Ballmer's statement remains available on Microsoft's website, and his words are well-and-truly out there and can hardly be put back in a box and forgotten about. Now, according to a …
By making all of his company products exclusively tied into other company products they will either all succeed together or all fail together, but the latter is looking increasingly likely. Take the recent takeover and hobbling of Skype as an example, with Skype being prevented from providing Asterisk PABX support very soon afterwards. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. So how is Skype to compete now, with one hand tied behind their back ?
A sane CEO of this company would give the different product divisions complete independence from each other, allowing them to make technology choices in the best interests of their product development and customers, and would not require them to support exclusive non standardised interfaces and lockins with other members of the Microsoft product family.
Skype is also poster child of Nokia (trolltech/digia) qt framework. It basically exists on so many platforms because of that excellent framework.
Now Nokia was forced not to support qt, completely pissing off very very large scale developers, can you imagine MS will let them to keep using c++/qt combination?
It will show a good thing: to which scale MS lost their sanity.
He should be fired for not changing the company culture, emberacing changing times.
Apple and IBM are here today not because of iPod, it was because Apple had balls to dump their impossible to fix MacOS and restarted from strach NexT code without alienating existing userbase and UI paradigm. When people see Finder there and the same UI as 1984, they miss the fact that it is one of the biggest decisions to make.
Check IBM, a company who even insisted on EBCDIC encoding from punch cards. They moved to the new World, gave up hopeless and counter productive end user business, added millions of lines to open source projects.
And here, sorry for getting reminded all the time since I am on perfectly working Nokia E71, a company who puts trojans to companies, bribes people to "buy" marketshare for an OS based on failed flash killer wannabe.
People lost their trust to Microsoft business plans. They love Windows 7 since it is actually Vista, fixed.
No matter what they say about Windows 8, for ordinary people, it will be Windows 7, improved.
Funny that I bought Vista Starter for my Virtual Box while 7 was available. Why? Because it was a more tested, quirks fixed OS. That is how much "7" or any MS new OS impress me ;)
Microsoft seems to have lost their boldness since Bill Gates stepped down. Silverlight, Zune, Bing, tablet PCs, Vista - WTF is Ballmer thinking?
He's got Silverlight and Bing. At least try to determine your target audience and market to them aggressively. Under Ballmer, MS is doing what I call "Hokey Pokey Marketing" - they put their foot into the market, then they pull their foot out of the market.
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