Comments on: Ballmer just opened the Second Envelope

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dysonlu1@gmail.com — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:28:03 +0000

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By: Business Consulting Toronto

Business Consulting Toronto — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:38:58 +0000

The envelope story is a classic and it is frequently used in business circles. Indeed, Ballmer has one envelope left, and it seems like he is walking on a tight rope.

By: Evan

Evan — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:45:54 +0000

Open source is indeed changing the nature of the game. At the same time however opportunities do present themselves, especially at times likes these, times of “corporate earthquakes”. The next few years will be interesting in seeing how things will unfold.

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By: Ballmer’s latest acquisition | Monday Note

Ballmer’s latest acquisition | Monday Note — Sun, 15 May 2011 18:50:16 +0000

[...] last year’s May 30th Monday Note, I wrote Ballmer had opened the “Second Envelope”. He was running out of explanations: first blame your predecessor, then fire a few subordinates. [...]

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By: xbox ring of death fix

xbox ring of death fix — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:40:19 +0000

I agree with “Microsoft’s problems” comment regarding this blog post as i also thinks that it is useless for us to argue what is happen in the past.

By: corunar

corunar — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 02:08:43 +0000

Seems we all agree, MSFT declined the moment all the software weenies there were too rich to give a shit, which coincided with when new recruits had no hope of getting rich (read as, apathy, apathy), just coincidentally that was when SteveB took over (2000, or so). Don’t blame Steve, I love Gorillas!

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fajar — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:47:47 +0000

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Microsoft’s Problems | simoncoles.org — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:42:15 +0000

[...] it would be hard to argue that its future is going to be anything other than a shadow of its past. This article looks at the financial performance in more detail: Over the last decade, Wall Street has declined to reward Microsoft for its superior profit. The [...]

By: jay

jay — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:24:05 +0000

the problem is it is a 10 year marathon that he has lost because of lack of vision. He is a good manager that can milk windows and office cash cow but not someone who can envision and drive into new businesses like Jobs can.

By: Scott S

Scott S — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:48:21 +0000

It’s easy to criticize but harder to do! Never count out the guy that can continue to finance the war. Microsoft is down, but not out. Balmer understands that this is a marathon – not a 100 yard dash.

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By: yohan

yohan — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:56:01 +0000

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Taking on the “R” as a Leader « Why Lead Now — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:18:26 +0000

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By: jay

jay — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:55:35 +0000

It’s clear Ballmer is just a smooth talking salesman who has surrounded himself with like minded inner circle that are afraid to challenge him. MS inner culture is sick at higher levels and as Dick Brass (ex-MS VP) said kills innovation. Not only should Ballmer be fired so should some of the failures that are still sticking around like mold on a tree (Jon Devaan, Yusuf Mehdi, Kevin Egan, Rick Liotta), glad they got rid off some dead wood like Bruce Jaffe.

By: Steve McIntosh

Steve McIntosh — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:12:00 +0000

Steve Ballmer on the mound: “There’s your problem.”

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By: LeightonJ

LeightonJ — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 07:02:43 +0000

I worked at MSFT in its growth period. At one time BillG went to run some development projects and SteveB ran the business. It failed and they switched back quickly

Its failed again.

SteveB is a great sales leader and motivator, not a CEO.

As this analysis shows, he has failed and he needs to step aside.

By: karl

karl — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:13:42 +0000

I should be a fortune teller – article just broke about MS suing Salesforce.com

http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/05/microsoft_sues_salesforcecom_alleging_patent_infringement.html

Oh yeah, it just so happens salesforce.com is the biggest provider in the cloud computing arena.

This is MS trying to get one last gasp of breathe before the waves of new technology wash them out to sea.

By: 苹果前高管：留给微软和鲍尔默的时间不多了 « 编程王网站

苹果前高管：留给微软和鲍尔默的时间不多了 « 编程王网站 — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:36:06 +0000

[...] Capital合伙人的Jean-Louis Gassee今天撰文“Ballmer just opened the Second Envelope”，称微软CEO史蒂夫·鲍尔默(Steve [...]

By: Joshua Whalen

Joshua Whalen — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:24:58 +0000

Y’know, I’m a developer, and I have a couple of applications in development right now that are just dying to be cross platform apps. I’ll have no difficulty making versions that run more-or-less identically on OSX, Chrome, Android, iPhone, and asstd Linuxen. I’ll have to fiddle with the UI’s a bit, but the underlying code will run just fine without much in the way of modification.

Forget doing Windows, anything. The problem isn’t that MS has bad products, they don’t have bad products. The problem is that pretty much everyone else in the world saw the writing on the wall more than a decade ago that the Unix based internet was the future of tech, and dumped their proprietary cores for standards compliant Unix cores. I can’t believe that (well, I can actually, and sadly) that MSIE still doesn’t support SVG, for example, or that they haven’t at least thought that bundling something like MinGW with Windows Professional.

Who DOESN’T use GCC these days, at least occasionally? Who doesn’t use Subversion?

The number of features I have to leave out of a web app, just for starts, because of IE’s short comings is too numerous to name, and don’t get me started on CSS or javascript compliance.

If there’s one thing that has defined the 2nd Jobs era at Apple, it’s been (at least on paper) support for open standards.

I’ll be honest and admit I’ve had no love for MS, ever, but I once had respect for them. As of IE 8, that’s gone.

By: Jean-Louis Gassée

Jean-Louis Gassée — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 05:11:15 +0000

@ anon. Re: MS stock split/price. Very gracious, gentlemanly follow-up, thanks. JLG