Your Say: Ballmer Must Leave as Soon as Possible

Keep him until he 2017-2018?

I personally think that Ballmer is too arrogant for the position that he holds.
In a company like Microsoft,that's bad news.

He appears to be the one that,'knows best' about everything,a sure recipe for disaster.

The model that Microsoft is currently persuing(Copy & Paste 'Apple'), is taking them nowhere.

Remember the saying,"the bigger they are,the heavier they fall".

Yes, get him out as soon as possible, and bring Sinofsky back as CEO!

"Does Ballmer really need to retire?"

Well, YES; and NO. It depends.

From what I found out, in Steven Ba[se]ballmer's family, every member is using a different Operating System, on different devices. They are not "loyal" Windows users.

His kids started with Amiga OS. And they have never quit it, since then. They don't even want to hear about Windows. For them, Windows is a virus.

His wife is using only Mac OS X. In fact, she is totally immersed in an Apple world. For her, Windows is a BSOD.

In what concerns Mister Ballmer's options, almost everyone knows that he is using - since 1995! -, a Linux distro. He keeps tenths of Linux laptops, hidden in various places of his house. Despite the fact that, every time when his wife finds one of them, she is throwing it on fire - with a paroxysmal fury!

In his basement, Mister Ballmer keeps a SUN workstation. In his garage he has a Silicon Graphics (SGI) workstation. And in his home working room he uses a Sperry UNIVAC mainframe - which runs Cobol. Only for computing his wages, of course.

In what concerns his MS Headquarters bureau, things are a little different. In order to keep the appearances, he has a Desktop PC - in the next configuration:

- OS: Windows 1.o & Windows 10 - Dual Boot-able. (Note: Windows 10 has almost one billion Lines of Code).
- CPU: 13 intel XXXeONS - each one with 33 cores (with hyper-threaded Hyper-Threadings)
- GPU: NVIDIA Cuadratic Quadro 1VX0 - 8-SLI card -, with 128 GB of GDDR 19 VRAM (for Office applications); and 15 Tesla M9000 cards, with one million cores and 1TB of dedicated video RAM (for Seismic processing, Weather modeling, and Financial computing).
- RAM: 1000 TB - DDR 15
- HDD: 666, 100.000 TB WD drives, running at 100.000 rpm, in a RAID-ed RAID-16 array.
- PSU: 100 KW model.

If you are asking me about the monitor, well, he uses an older, monochrome model, 12-inch diagonal, green-phosphor CRT display, with CGA resolution (40×25 characters).

His system is cooled by a huge fan (I mean really huge!) which has 20 meters in diameter. The hot air is pumped through a plastic tube, up to the roof of his building - a place where MS is warming up seagulls, and homeless people, for free.


Mister Ballmer does not even know how to login, in Windows! He is always asking his secretary to do it, for him. (He is amused by the "up-skirt effect" produced by the huge fan.)

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Why on earth should we dismiss an employer expert in... Linux? Just to allow him to open a company which will sell a Windows-killer Linux distro - based of Windows code?!

Yes, Mister Ballmer is working, in the deepest secret, to a new OS - based entirely on the Linux kernel. It will be named "LINUXGATE" - in the honor of his Boss, Bill Gates.


The only reason for his dismissal would be the fact that his PC has a powerful influence over the global warming.-

Sinofsky is not the right person for MS CEO.
There are better people than him in the MS senior ranks.
Windows 8's blurry fonts are a jarring wake-up call that someone who understands the user's perspective is needed at, or very near, the top.

you are and idiot If anything Sinofsky is more qualified for the job than Balmer

let him go windows 8 is a disaster .

It's ridiculous, users want Ballmer to go but they want as CEO to be Sinofsky,
well he just led the Windows division, so Windows 8 is his work.

I hate Windows 8 (hate)!
They makes their own business without users satisfaction and habits!

Correct! Windows 8 is a schizoid OS. Yes!

Corporate policy is one thing - stick to your guns is understandable, given the circumstances.
However, stuffing down consumers' throats a no option is inexcusable and everyone at Microsoft
voting for this approach should be fired!
And yes, Ballmer is ultimately responsible for this half baked attempt at getting consumers in the MS Store.
None of my 12 PCs at home and office will ever see this ''advanced joke'' of OS..
Lex0r

well said @Lex0r

I am scared to a buy a new computer next year as I don't want it to be pre-loaded with this shiznit OS Windows 8!! I could've never imagined using such a buggy and crippled OS in my life! I tried using it and getting used to it. Even installed the Start 8 app that brings back the start menu but this OS is simply horrible! Icons become white/blank all of a sudden and I have to restart to get the icon images back, IE 10 is buggy, the bookmarks icon sometimes have weird colors upon first launch of the browsers, many pages are not compatible with IE 10 and I cannot even see the IE compatibility mode, and worst of all, I randomly get a "COM Surrogate has caused an error" message despite having all Windows 8 approved drivers from ASUS and all the latest Windows updates! That's just how crappy this OS is!

Nothing wrong with Windows 8, I use since October 31, Windows 8 is so awesome, the big problem just Start button, because we (Windows user) so familiar with that feature, that's why people think twice to upgrade their Windows or other reason.

But I think, cmon, you just need more time to makes yourself familiar with several features.

how long for new user? how long for corp with 450 users? joke.

Larry I am with you on this, I am an it consulant and I have 50-60 small business clients.
Several of my clients have purchased Windows 8 and they HATE it, I have gotten several calls about the start button, I tell them to use Start8 but even these programs have been buggy. I spoke with my sales rep about his sells of Windows 8 and he informed me that about 8 out of 10 PCs he sells get returned due to people not liking it, finding it hard to use, and just plain ugly.

I don't see the need of kicking out Ballmer from Microsoft. And for the record Windows 8 pro is by far the best operating system in my opinion. It's just a matter of getting familiar with the new features.

Win 8 should sell more OS X and Ubuntu computers. Yep, even a few Ubuntu laptops showing up. Looks like ChromeOS has a hit with the Samsung $249 laptop. Looks like Win 8 has laid an egg. Can it work as an OS - absolutely. Does it make sense to run a Tablet over Desktop PC GUI - not really.
Now and then, using Win8 can be fun, as in playing with a widget sort of fun, or finding a playful little app to use when bored. All in all, it is simply quirky and not very pro looking like Apple OS X, which is great, though it should have a way to make fonts larger across all programs - my only complaint. Ubuntu Linux takes a little getting used to compared to Mint, but is pretty darn good - layout makes more sense than Win 8, IMHO.

Win9 should be a free update this October '13, unless there is an 8.x, the correction versions of 8, as a free update. And Win9 needs to be priced at $39, for the non-update version.

Surely, Ballmer must leave, Or he'll be thrown out. I've already said in the reasons in comment: http://news.softpedia.com/news/If-Windows-8-Fails-to-Impress-Ballmer-Could-Be-Out-315303.shtml

Now the question is, how would he be thrown out?

No, he dosen't. Windows 8 is a unique OS, it's far beyond anything that is on the market today.
Although I admit the new interface takes a while to get used to the feature that come integrated in the OS * the competition. Some users fail to comprehend that still but my belief is that in a matter of years either Windows will be the dominant OS or Apple and Google will modify their OSes to keep up with the power that Windows 8 offers it's users.

windows 8 is a windows 7 ubuntized and desktop is kdeized. Its a involution.

unique as in .... "i didn't realize real crap could actually be digitized" ... is that what you mean by unique? Because digitized crap is a pretty good summary of almost every other person posting comments, on every other board, under every article about Windows 8, and on any place that allows people to post on the internet.

Anyone who's overseen the development of Windows 8 should be fired.

God !!! So much Poison goingon here... Are you all techie??? Cant see innovation in windows 8... ?? This is exactly how feel when I hold Mac ... I hate so much that I want to throw on the floor but does it mean its bad laptop ? Not really ... I just have to give time to get used to with Apple OS. I guess thats what happening with windows 8... Drastic change in 30 years old lagacy is not easy to digest at first hand but my 3 year old can figure out how to use Windows 8 so stop telling me... its hard or its disaster... Its just different than anything else you have seen.... its consumer mindset rather than business/developer.

Windows 8 is a mess and wild horses could not drag me to install it across our estate, even at the offered early adopter upgrade price. We'll see Windows 7 through to end of mainstream support, look at whatever MS comes up with by then and decide whether to stay with Windows or make the jump to Apple or quiet possibly Ubuntu for all our desktops. By then we will have replaced many of our laptops that are used for browsing and web app access with Android tablets so it could well be a complete break with MS unless they shape up. I'll add that the ever more irrelevant bells and whistles they add to Office won't keep us loyal. A much more basic set of office tools from the open sourse arena will more than meet our needs. (we have an installed PC base of 120 and 75 laptops so not exactly huge but if we are representative of other SMEs then Micrrosoft has problems and could really be on the ropes.) Could ditching Balmer help? Who knows.

Ballmer will go down in history as the man who killed Microsoft.

Not used windows 8 yet, but cannot imagine I will bother. Apparently the virtualisation on it is good, but that metro thing is ugly as sin, what am I? A 5 year old that needs everything incredibly colourful and bright? http://images.pcworld.com/images/article/2012/03/live20tiles-11331051.png *puke*

I still have my win 7 desktop set to windows classic (yes, gray.) Every other theme windows has makes me want to puke. Aero sucked too, why were so many things popping up and disappearing while I moved my cursor around. Why do I need a live thumbnail of my word document?

Metro seems to have made the desktop redundant, and my PC doesn't have a touch screen, I don't want to have to flail my cursor all around the screen to find the application I want, was a list really that bad a thing?

Microsoft top brass needs to understand the difference between colourful and usability.

They have made mistakes like this in the past *cough cough* office ribbon system *cough cough* - the whole point of office 2003 was the customisation, I had macro toolbars for everything, now I can't customise * . Sort it out MS!

Yes, definitely,He killed the Flight Simulator franchise.