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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by hackuser on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @04:50PM (#9461667)
> Ballmer was good at sales but horrible at running a company

From Wikipedia:

Under Ballmer's tenure as CEO, Microsoft's annual revenue surged from $25 billion to $70 billion, while its net income increased 215 percent to $23 billion

May all companies suffer equally incompetent CEOs.

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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by Turing_Machine on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @05:06PM (#9461791)
Over the same period Apple was going from $8 billion to $182 billion in revenue and Google was going from $3 billion to $66 billion in revenue.
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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by jliptzin on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @11:05PM (#9463117)
You could say the pie was just getting a lot bigger. Why should one company be expected to eat it all?
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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by waterlesscloud on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @06:31PM (#9462268)
Google is a completely unfair comparison as that was their prime growth stage.
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