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There are multiple questions. Even though I voted 3 on a couple of questions, that doesn't mean that I have no opinion on any or all of them. This question is too early. Not only has Ballmer's replacement not been had a visible track record, he has not yet been announced or even rumoured yet. Ballmer has not left, and will be with us another year.
I voted 4 for the 'better for developers' question because (despite his stated intentions) Ballmer was not good for developers and just about anybody would be better... but that is still severe speculation.
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An average of about 3 doesn't necessarily mean most people selected the 'no opinion' option. It could mean there is a 50:50 split between those who chose 1 (strongly against) and those who chose 5 (strongly for).
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All answers are around 3 - a clear win for people with no opinion. Yea!
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Tim probably is weighing his options while he still has time.
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Watson, Jobs and Gates were exceptions, as were Mitch Kapor and Akers.
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This poll is too early. Once they've announced the intended successor I may have an opinion on this. For now, I'm just glad to see the idiot go, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed the replacement is an improvement.
It could well go the other way - one of the reasons he appears to have left relates to investor groups trying to muscle him out. If that's the case we could have the worst possible outcome - the company focus being dictated by investors rather than technologists.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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ya agree
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Agreed - you can't determine the future based on Ballmer resigning, until you know the replacement and his ideas/strategy.
'Howard
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I think there should of been 2 more options
I hope so
I hope not
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We don't know yet who will replace him. Also it's not like there wasn't innovation from Microsoft. It just didn't play out well. All that matters in the end is if the decisions they made were the ones that were appreciated by the customers.
I guess a new CEO won't make that much of a difference. He may be able to give the company a new focus and so on, however I don't think that much will change. At least not in the near future.
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Depends on who they get to replace him. Hopefully they will concentrate on getting developers back under their wing and listen to what they have to say and to what they want and need instead of a marketing dick!
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I agree with it depends on who they get.
With the wrong person it may just just get worse.
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The industry changes very fast so person who is in the position for such long time can sometimes be behind the latest trends.
Microsoft does not own the market, so we will see more 'fights' in the future probably
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I hope that MS will take a new way of thinking. It's getting a bit better and better every year.
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Bartlomiej Filipek wrote: Microsoft does not own the market
That depends which "market" you're looking at. For desktop O/S, I'd say at 91.19% (based on browser usage, so that excludes PC's delivered with Windows and then reinstalled) they're still pretty strong.
O/S Market Share[^]
Even though PC sales are declining, to me this not so much the much touted "Death of the PC" as a combination of two factors:
(i) The market is pretty saturated right now. I don't know anyone who hasn't got at least one PC in their household, and obviously in business its ubiquitous.
(ii) There is less urgency to get a new PC anymore - new O/S releases no longer seem to need higher spec PC's than the previous version, similar with most app's.
So while bad news for hardware vendors, most of those existing desktops/laptops still run some version of Windows, and many are upgraded over time.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Yep, it depends. But on the other hand, the board is well aware of the downsides of current CEO, so those are on the list of "must-change items" regardless of the new person.
However, what's going to happen to the current advantages? Sadly the positive things often aren't so easily recognized. Hopefully they hold on to those while trying to achieve a change
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Bill Gates was an innovator and could see and manage to catch the technology wave leading the way, it will be hard to find someone with that vision and leadership skills.
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