> "Success requires moving to monetization through enterprise subscriptions, hardware gross margins, and advertising revenues," Ballmer helpfully suggested. "You must drive that." Translation: Selling software is 2000 and late.
It most certainly is not and idiotic statements like this are the reason that he's not at the helm now.
The future for Microsoft and their ilk is most certainly not in selling software, but in selling services.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
