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Re:The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple by rimantas on Sunday March 02, 2014 @04:05PM (#7330763)
What new products did Balmer bring in which would go from zero to being main profit generators?
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Re:The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple by gnaffle on Sunday March 02, 2014 @04:28PM (#7330846)
Well, that's my point (although you could say Xbox was an exception). Tim Cook is very well known quantity when it comes to execution, just like Jony Ive is when it comes to product design, but for innovation, we don't know how the team stacks up.
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Re:The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple by nostromo on Sunday March 02, 2014 @05:36PM (#7331071)
Minor quibble: the Xbox was started under Gates, not Ballmer. It was publicly announced 2 months after Gates stepped down as CEO.

I think this fits with your larger point however: Ballmer was not a product visionary.

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Re:The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple by amirmc on Sunday March 02, 2014 @08:58PM (#7331641)
Sharepoint. I'm pretty sure that's multi-billion dollar business for Microsoft.
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