Ballmer Named One of the Worst CEOs of 2012

Yes, ASAP. Windows 8 is a confusing garbage.

Bye Steve Ballmer

Yes, leave. But, crawl to Sinofsky and ask him to get back.

Rid of him.. he is not good ceo as windows 8 was shamble... so shove him out

Get rid of him and windows 8 crappy interface team

YES! ditch Steve Ballmer ASAP!! IMO (should be steve bullmer) he comes across as childish, extremely arrogant and a bullie. No! wonder Bill Gates left Microsoft with Ballmer in charge. The MS CEO should have been given to Steve Sinoffsky of windows OS fame (no wonder he left too he probably cannot stand Ballmer either). Windows 8 is a totally schitzoid OS that is neither one thing nor another, any experienced IT admins can see windows 8 is another MS dog and wouldnt touch it with a barge pole. Lets see what windows 9 or 10 brings?

Herb Greenberg is full of it. CNBC is blatantly bias against Microsoft. They always put analyst on that know very little about Microsoft.

>shares have fallen by more than 40 percent since [Ballmer] became CEO

Isn't it more like a 90% drop?

Jan 2000: 1 MSFT share = 0.174oz gold
Now: 1 MSFT share = 0.016 oz gold

Looks like the the great one can't keep up with lifeless yellow rocks!

Definitely, Steve Ballmer should be fired many years ago. Microsoft will become history if he is still running the company.

Given that I view Microsoft with particular hostility and would like it to yield its operating systems niche in to Linux a.s.a.p., I am all in favour of mr. Ballmer.

Where mr. Gates has been known to turn his company on a dime when a critical new trend emerged (e.g. Internet and the Web), Mr. Ballmer has kept Microsoft straight on course in a changing world and ensured that it steamed straight ahead. I am particularly impressed by the way Microsoft have refrained from becoming a significant competitor in the handheld sphere, which is now dominated by a Linux variant (Android). Well done!

Given that I view Microsoft with particular hostility and would like it to yield its operating systems niche in to Linux a.s.a.p., I am all in favour of mr. Ballmer.

Where mr. Gates has been known to turn his company on a dime when a critical new trend emerged (e.g. Internet and the Web), Mr. Ballmer has kept Microsoft straight on course in a changing world and ensured that it steamed straight ahead. I am particularly impressed by the way Microsoft have refrained from becoming a significant competitor in the handheld sphere, which is now dominated by a Linux variant (Android). Well done!