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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by BuckRogers on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @10:29PM (#29989607)
Ballmer gets a bad rap but he was the one that got them moving towards Azure and cloud. He made MS a lot of money, they didn’t suffer under him. It was mostly just optics where he didn’t look good.
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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by mathattack on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @11:06AM (#29995449)
Look at the stock price under him, and then after.
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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by missedthecue on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @11:29AM (#29995815)
Although it's plausible that had he stayed on for say another five more years, we would have seen the fruits of his early investments pay off and the stock appreciate accordingly.
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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by BuckRogers on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @09:37PM (#30003709)
The guy who had Nadella in charge of cloud the entire time? Ballmer is the one that not only placed Satya, but made the call to push and fund it.

For me your comment rings the same as saying look at the stock price of AMD under and after Lisa Su.

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