“Microsoft is at a crossroads, not the first one it has stared down in its 36-year-history, but perhaps the most important,” Krazit writes. “It is both enormously successful and astonishingly off-course at the same time, generating billions in profits off of Windows and Office but ill-prepared and out-gunned in making the transition to a new style of computing that old rivals like Apple and Google are appearing to lock up for themselves.”
Krazit reports, “It took a new CEO from a completely different industry who was willing to question every single part of IBM’s business and culture in order to prime the company for a new era, and IBM remains one of the strongest tech companies on the planet as a result. Perhaps not as top- of-mind as it once was, but secure in its own identity and now once again more valuable than Microsoft. Microsoft needs such a leader.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Steve Ballmer is that leader. His strategy just needs more time to unfold. We urge Microsoft’s board to continue with Steve Ballmer’s vision for as long as it takes.
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