Now that Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates has started his two-year goodbye from a day-to-day role at the company, it's time for CEO Steve Ballmer to set a resignation date, too. Since Gates stepped down as CEO in 2000 in favor of Ballmer, the company has floundered technically and strategically. As the company's chairman, chief software architect and supposed visionary, Gates deserves blame for missing the wave of Web-based software that has propelled Google and Yahoo. But Ballmer has made gaffes of his own in his longtime role as head of the company's business side. In addition, Microsoft has started a wiki-like thing to allow its employees to ventilate ideas to the higher echelons of the company.
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The lack of hype is a bit surprising, especially since Ballmer is a (self-proclaimed) marketing specialist. However, since they are still pulling features it would make it difficult to advertise...would you want to tell millions upon millions of customers about a great new feature only to have them discover after they've bought your product the feature doesn't exist? There's also the possibility that they aren't feeling too secure about their release date and don't want to look bad to Joe User if it slips again.
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The sad state of journalism these days is apparent no matter what topic you're reading from what source you're reading.
It seems to me they just don't bother to research what it is they're talking about, they just spout whatever in order to create news.
That's the new journalism. Don't wait for news to happen. Go out and create it.
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2005-11-29
More stupid "Ballmer should resign" articles... I've seen a few too many of these lately. I don't think these quasi-journalists have any idea what they're writing about. I have about as much faith in the validity of this bogus editorial as I do in the national enquirer.