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Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO

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371 points greggyb | 2 comments | 28 Oct 24 21:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.413s | source
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exabrial ◴[28 Oct 24 22:11 UTC] No.41976993[source]▶
No he wasn’t haha. The only thing he did was slide the company sideways via pre existing illegal monopoly. In fact, they lost most of their monopoly under his supervision . At no point did the quality of their products improve, and that’s evidenced with this year’s massive massive Windows outage, or Garmins mega ransomware, out a hundred other people who’ve been hacked via Windows.

If you’re running Windows for anything, it’s only a matter of when, not if.

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1. wbl ◴[28 Oct 24 22:21 UTC] No.41977086[source]▶
Steve Ballmer has not been CEO for a decade. At 10 years later it is very much Nadella's ship.
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2. belter ◴[28 Oct 24 22:26 UTC] No.41977142[source]▶
Still Bill Gates: "Bill Gates never left - Insiders say he's still pulling the strings at Microsoft" - https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-still-pulling-str...