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Microsoft holding a “funeral” for the iPhone after launching the Windows Phone 7 (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 6 months ago by sjmarf to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Steve Ballmer lacked two things: vision and taste, - and his personal lackings ended up coloring all of MS's efforts and products during his tenure as CEO.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget respect for human beings. He implemented particularly brutal stack-ranking.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think the only thing Ballmer has ever respected is money, he seems to me just a bean counter and obnoxiously hyped up "salesguy" in his personality, with not much depth beyond that.

[–] gravitywell 3 points 6 months ago

I heard he's pretty enthusiastic about developers, developers, developers, developers...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Even though Ballmer was ceo during release, it was definitely the fucking moron Satya that buried Windows Phone.