Re:Why Steve Ballmer will resign from Microsoft in 2010
by wmeredith on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @01:55PM
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The critical thing about a job as a decision maker (a CEO) is not to never be wrong, it's to usually be right. If someone were to cherry pick a bad decision from my past, I'm sure they could find a doozy.
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Re:Why Steve Ballmer will resign from Microsoft in 2010
by kakooljay on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @03:03PM
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Good point - &, to be fair, let's not forget that even Bill Gates (among others) also underestimated the potential of the Internet in the early '90s...
Re:Why Steve Ballmer will resign from Microsoft in 2010
by RyanMcGreal on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @03:34PM
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It's fun to go back and read an early edition of Gates' The Road Ahead, in which he just completely misses the value, growth potential and benefits of an open, neutral data network. Rather, he simply transposed "a PC in every house" to "an MSN connection in every house".
In fairness, Gates caught on pretty fast and didn't let his own prior prognostication get in the way of positioning Microsoft to extend his company's product lock-in to customers' internet access (see: IE).
Re:Why Steve Ballmer will resign from Microsoft in 2010
by nearestneighbor on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @07:50PM
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Benefit of hindsight or not, but I think predicting that the number of web sites would actually decrease is showing a total lack of common sense. If I were a shareholder, I'd want someone else at the helm.