14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft is getting through even more big changes, now that Steve Ballmer has announced his retirement, so the company has already started the search for a new CEO.
But whoever comes after Ballmer should try to innovate a little bit more, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak suggested in a talk with the BBC, explaining that Microsoft is too much focused on its existing markets.
Microsoft has been “resting on their markets that they built a long, long time ago and that’s pretty dangerous,” Wozniak said, while also adding that Ballmer cannot even be compared to Bill Gates when it comes to Microsoft CEOs.
Apple has gone through a similar change of leadership a few years ago when current chief executive Tim Cook replaced Steve Jobs at the helm of the company.
“Steve jobs had very strong feelings about what makes a company great, what makes products great. He more-or-less chose Tim Cook to be in that role, in that position,” Wozniak explained.