Re:Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet
by m0zg on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @06:17PM
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I can name only one: mobile. OTOH Ballmer spearheaded Azure and Office/Exchange as a service, both of which are the major reasons why MS is a trillion-dollar company on an upswing today. No amount of Satya would save it, if Ballmer didn't beat the internal Microsoft "deep state" into submission on Azure and SaaS first. And a serious beatdown was required before Office and Windows apparatchiks received the message.
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Re:Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet
by lonelappde on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @06:49PM
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Ballmer tried to save Microsoft by killing the Internet, creating the opening for Google to become the industry leader
Re:Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet
by m0zg on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @07:12PM
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I think you're confusing him with Gates. Although Ballmer did refuse to buy Google when he could. Would have been a drop in the bucket. I forgot, BTW, he also spun up the ad and search businesses: the only reason there's any alternative to Google at all.
Re:Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet
by ddalex on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @05:52AM
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Arguably, if he would've bought Google, we wouldn't have the internet as we have it today: people would've payed for search, as for the OS and Office suite: $10 per 1000 queries per month.
Hmmm, maybe that've been for the better.