Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 11th Jan 2009 23:31 UTC
People who work for for-profit companies, especially large ones, are always a bit uninteresting to interview, with media training and marketing instructions taking out all the sharp edges. CNet interviewed Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, and they got some very interesting quotes from the love-him-or-hate-him CEO.
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RE[3]: Love him or hate him
by javiercero1 on Mon 12th Jan 2009 20:37
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There are three words I never thought I would see together in a sentence: Bill Gates + Charisma.
Charisma is a neutral concept. Bill Gates in my humble opinion has the charisma of a carrot.
Ballmer on the other hand exudes charisma. Note that charisma does not imply "likeable" or "agreeable."
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Ive met steve ballmer aswell when he was in london a few weeks back. I think he is a terrible public figure for microsoft. He makes incredibly rash and stupid comments which lets down the intelligent people at microsoft. At least with bill gates he had some carisma which a lot of people could either like or dislike.
He is completely unprofessional and i find him really boring to listen to also, i switch off a lot of his presentations.
I personally think they should move some of the newer talent to the spot light a lot more. I find Steve Sinosky a much more likeable, intelligent speak that Ballmer. I think they should retire him to a seat upstairs, he may keep his CEO title but please other someone who is likeable giving important presentations.
I can't help but feel that if Ballmer was to annouce his retirement Microsoft's shares would go up.
Microsoft is a good company with lots of intelligent people and cool technology.
The development of vista was disasterious, while the Vista product today is good. I did have a few BSOD and corrupted startup's in the early days of it's release. However this, as others have pointed out has meant that Microsoft got caught out in the netbook market, as they in the mobile phone market.
As good and clever as Dave Cutler is, i think that now he has moved on from the Windows team, a breathe of fresh talent has also been moved in.
Windows 7 will be microsoft coming back fighting and entering the netbook market correctly and not just patching with Windows XP. In the same way i expect the next major release of Windows Mobile will be a lot better due to the competition from apple but also the increased competition from Google and Palm.
Edited 2009-01-12 10:35 UTC