General Director or CEO of the company Microsoft Steve Ballmer will retire within the next 12 months. Ballmer will remain in his position until he has Microsoft a suitable successor to his position and until Ballmer has trained this successor, so to speak. Steve Ballmer became the 35th employeeanccompany Microsoft, who joined in June 1980. Steve Ballmer was appointed CEO of the company Microsoft in January 2000, when the founder and at the time the richest man in the world left this position Bill Gates.
“There is never a perfect time for such an event, but now is the right time. We have embarked on a new strategy with a new organization and we have a great team of senior leaders. I originally expected the time for my retirement to come in the midst of a transformation Microsoft"We are moving from a company that makes devices and services to a company that makes devices and services. We need a CEO who will be around long enough to drive this new direction for our company," Steve Ballmer said in a statement. press release issued Microsoftem.
Although we always liked Steve Ballmer and I considered his appearances, for which many people laughed, to be successful marketing, I must admit that he did not help the company's management much and since he took over the reins from the company's founder Billu Gatesovi has essentially only been able to lift one division, which is Xbox. In the case of Office a Windows only the evolution and entry of society then took place Microsoft even he himself commented negatively on the smartphone market Bill Gates, who literally stated, "that the entrance Microsoft"He wasn't very happy with the smartphone market".
Unfortunately, Ballmer failed to enter the tablet market either, as indicated by the sales results. Microsoft Surface in the article Microsoft sold half as many Surface tablets in 8 months as Apple iPads in 3 days. Microsoft under Ballmer's leadership, he was unable to make much use of Skype, which became a property during his leadership MicrosoftThe stock market also reacted to Ballmer's departure, which only confirms the above words. The value of the company's shares rose by 8% immediately after the press release about Ballmer's departure from the position of CEO.
Well, I think it was about time. Microsoft he needs someone other than Ballmer.
And now everyone is singing: Developers, developers, developers...
Would it kill Dickonson to put some black strip instead of the display to make it look like the display is really there?
Ballmer's departure alone won't solve anything. Microsoft has no direction or vision, has no idea what he's doing wrong and the departure of one person won't solve that. MS didn't understand the position of tablets on the market at all and, moreover, entered the mobile segment with three versions of the OS at once. Huge nonsense. If he wants to make a profit from this, he needs to cancel RT completely, forget about W8 for tablets and quickly form WP as the only mobile platform for both tablets and smartphonesone. Abolish the Surface as a vision of a professional tablet and rework it into a fun tablet like the iPad. And especially already tooneNokia is starting to produce tablets. They are already at least 2 years behind.