Steve Ballmer Must Leave, Microsoft Needs an Outside CEO

".....criticized on a weekly basis"

haha...will he soon be criticized on an hourly basis?

“Because of Bill [Gates] and Steve are very close, I don't see an immediate change happening anyway.”

I wonder how VERY close they are...

Anyway, I think that, even if the leadership is a serious problem, the main problem is Windows - Microsoft's main product. The Operating System - and the "philosophy" on which it is based - must be changed.

Yes, it is a gargantuan task. But, if Windows will not be changed - from scratch! -, then Microsoft will disappear.


Mister Ballmer, I already told you (on your ex-Fake-Blog): the model of inspiration, for Windows, should have been, from the beginning, AMIGA OS.

Here's what Mister John C. Dvorak (the PC Magazine's famous editorialist) stated, in 1996, about AmigaOS:


"The AmigaOS remains one of the great operating systems of the past 20 years, incorporating a small kernel and tremendous multitasking capabilities - the likes of which have only recently been developed in OS/2 and Windows NT. The biggest difference is that the AmigaOS could operate fully and multi-task in as little as 250 K of address space. Even today, the OS is only about 1 MB in size [!!!]. And to this day, there is very little a memory-hogging CD-ROM-loading OS can do, the Amiga can't. Tight code — there's nothing like it. I've had an Amiga PC for maybe a decade. It's the single most reliable piece of equipment I've ever owned. It's amazing! You can easily understand why so many fanatics are out there wondering why they are alone in their love of the thing. The Amiga continues to inspire a vibrant — albeit, cult-like — community, not unlike that which you have with Linux, the Unix clone."

Put your programmers to write code directly in Assembly Language, Mister Ballmer. Take this also as a punishment!

And, in your spare time, watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1RsvEm7UrU


P.S.: I found out why the Pope Benedict was "advised" to retire. He committed an impardonnable sin: he wanted to switch to Linux, in Vatican...

I think he won't leave until he manages to ruin the MS and it's ecosystem completely.
see the product line
windows 8 - disaster
windows surface/RT/pro - high price for many users

Microsoft,by not disclosing the actual sales figures for Windows 8, is rapidly placing it's reputation at risk.
It needs to acknowledge,that placing the interest of tablets\mobile's before the interest of desktop users first,in developing Windows 8,is the primary cause of it's current situation.

Windows 8 should never have been developed as a 'hybrid' operating system,a seperate version for each,retaining the Start Menu for desktops,which they have categorically stated that they will not do.

The effect of this will be to advance Linux on dektops,with knock-on effects for Microsoft.

As another post has said,Windows should,if not subject to a new core,should be a 'lean & mean' system.
Much of the bundled or integrated software should be eliminated from the core.

The changes to Hotmail are another indication of putting M$ BEFORE it's users,it's where M$ are going wrong as a company.
They have also made terrible investment\purchases over the years,when they should have concentrated on making Windows position in the market unassailable.