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January 2000 was when Steve Ballmer was made CEO of Microsoft. Yes, we can discount the year 2000, that’s when the Internet Bubble burst causing most high-tech shares to collapse. Still, since the end of 2000, Microsoft stock has stagnated, hovering between $25 and $30.
This never appeared to faze Ballmer. While we joke about the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field, Microsoft shareholders ought to worry about Steve Ballmer’s own distortion, and about the self-inflicted effects of such a strong field.

We all remember Vista, it was a godsend for Apple. Did Ballmer acknowledge that there were problems? What about the Xbox 360 reliability nightmare? The apologies were left to underlings. Then Google comes out of nowhere to take 65% of the Search market, leaving Microsoft with an Apple-like market share (I’m referring to Macs, not iPods). In MP3 players, Microsoft failed again and again in its attempts to unseat the dominant (65% market share) iPod/iTunes combo. Social networks? A tiny investment (1.6%) in Facebook. And where is Microsoft in the Microblogging world, a.k.a Twitter? Nowhere, the old Microsoft Messenger is fading away.

Now we have the most recent Microsoft failure: Smartphones. When the iPhone came out in 2007, Ballmer pronounced it a “passing fad’’. Then, in 2008, he promised that Windows Mobile would have 40% market share by 2012. To be fair, he did recognize the failure in October 2009: ‘[We] screwed up with Windows Mobile.’ The platform was effectively dead. Earlier this year in Barcelona, Ballmer introduced his new smartphone OS, Windows Phone 7 Series, available in time for the Holidays. Two months after the Barcelona event, two Kin phones emerge to a lukewarm reception…and neither of them run on the old generation software, nor the next one, orphaned at birth.

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Χρόνια τώρα, εγώ, ένας χαζούλης από το Ελλάντα λέω και φωνάζω ειδικά για τον Steve Ballmer. Και όχι! Ούτε ο Bill Gates θα σώσει την Micro$oft. Για την ακρίβεια η Micro$oft δεν μπορεί να σωθεί παρά μόνο αν αρχίζει και κάνει λογισμικό για Apple OS, Linux, Google OS, κλπ. Κι εννοείται πως θα πρέπει να κόψει τις αηδίες με τα XBOX, Zune, κλπ. Αφού δεν το χετε ρε παλικάρια το υλικό. Αφήστε τα λειτουργικά συστήματα και το υλικό σε άλλους. Μείνετε στις εφαρμογές που κι αυτές τις έχετε με το ζόρι. Στη χειρότερη κάντε μια δική σας διανομή Linux αν σας φτιάχνει το να έχετε λειτουργικό σύστημα. Ονομάστε το και Micro$oft Windows NoT και θα είστε μια χαρά ;)