Ballmer Must Leave Now, Says Analyst and A former employee

[vissha]

Even though a recent research indicated that most employees still find Steve Ballmer the perfect leader for Redmond-based tech giant Microsoft, former executives and analysts continue to criticize the CEO for some of its recent decisions.

Joachim Kempin, a Microsoft executive between 1983 and 2002, will release a book titled “Resolve and Fortitude: Microsoft's ‘secret power broker’ breaks his silence” to discuss some of the issues he noticed in the time he worked for the software giant.

One of the main topics of the book is Steve Ballmer, the one who’s still in charge with the Microsoft business in the entire world and the man who reportedly fires everyone who has a chance to replace him at the helm of the company.

Kempin told Reuters in an interview that ever since 2000, Ballmer had been ousting every single person that’s considered a potential CEO in the future, starting with Richard Belluzzo, a former Microsoft COO, and ending with Steven Sinofsky, the one in charge with the Windows division until November.

“For Microsoft to really get back in the game seriously, you need a big change in management. As much as I respect Steve Ballmer, he may be part of that in the end,” Kempin was quoted as saying by Reuters.

“Steve is a very good business guy, but make him a chief operating officer, not a CEO, and your business is going to go gangbusters. I respect that guy (Ballmer), but there are some limitations in what he can and can't do and maybe he hasn't realized them himself.”

This isn’t the first time when Steve Ballmer is attacked this week, as Adam Hartung, a Forbes analyst and managing partner at consulting firm Spark Partners, said in a blog post that Microsoft’s CEO was completely ruining the software company’s business.

“Game over. Ballmer loses. And if you keep your money invested in Microsoft it will disappear along with the company,” Hartund said, while predicting that Microsoft would fire thousands of workers in the upcoming years.

Source: Softpedia

[vissha]

Adam Hartung, Forbes analyst and managing partner at consulting firm Spark Partners, said in a blog post that CEO Steve Ballmer and the recently-released products completely ruined Microsoft, explaining that the company was very likely to close several divisions in the upcoming years and even to cut thousands of jobs.

Hartung, who called Ballmer “the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company” in 2012, said in his article that Microsoft’s monopoly over the personal computing industry had evaporated and the desire to upgrade products created by the Redmond-based technology titan had disappeared.

What’s more, the analyst expects to see Microsoft’s business declining even more in the upcoming years, so Ballmer’s retirement would be the only way to go.

“Failure is already inevitable. At this stage, not even a new CEO can save Microsoft. Steve Ballmer played ‘Bet the Company’ on the long-delayed release of Win8, losing the chance to refocus Microsoft on other growing divisions with greater chance of success,” he said.

Microsoft may fire thousands of people in the upcoming years, Hartung writes, with approximately 60 percent of its 94,000 workers to be forced to leave by the company. Some divisions may be closed, while the entertainment business could be sold to Sony or even Barnes & Noble.

“No longer is Microsoft seen as a leader, and instead it is rapidly losing market relevancy as people look to Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, Facebook and others for leadership. The declining sales, and lack of customer interest will lead to a tailspin at Microsoft not unlike what happened to RIM,” the analyst added.

While Hartung used some inaccurate figures when it comes to Windows 8, Surface RT and Windows XP, he recommended people to sell their Microsoft stock, as the business is going to collapse in the upcoming years.

“Game over. Ballmer loses. And if you keep your money invested in Microsoft it will disappear along with the company,” he concluded.

Source: Softpedia

[majithia23]

As the topics concerned the same subject , hence merged .

[emerglines]

Sounds ballmer is the head of all microsoft problems :)

[DKT27]

Sounds ballmer is the head of all microsoft problems :)

And he is making Microsoft bald. :tooth:

[rudrax]

Not the fault of any person it's a kind of sequence/tradition like thingy for M$..success>fail>success>fail......upto infinity :lol:

[Tweety.Abd]

Sounds ballmer is the head of all microsoft problems :)

And he is making Microsoft bald. :tooth:

LMAO! :lol:

[vissha]

Not the fault of any person it's a kind of sequence/tradition like thingy for M$..success>fail>success>fail......upto infinity

But atleast the previous bad OS were able to be used by all. But this One and shut down of needed services and features, is the first time and that too declared by the idiot Ballmer & Co. And Ballmer still stubborn in the next release of Win Blue too. Thats the thing many people didn't like it. Don't just make up things look good. Ballmer is a blackmark for MS now. Thats the Truth.

[emerglines]

Not the fault of any person it's a kind of sequence/tradition like thingy for M$..success>fail>success>fail......upto infinity :lol:

hahahhahahahahhahh lololloollollooloolllllllllloooooooooooooooll !!!!! :troll:

[Marik]

the pic posted by rudrax speaks the truth :tehe:

[vissha]

the pic posted by rudrax speaks the truth :tehe:

But see the next Windows Blue and Shutdown of Service Packs, Yearly OS, that all a bad implementation of Ballmer.

[CreativeThinking]

Sounds ballmer is the head of all microsoft problems :)

And he is making Microsoft bald. :tooth:

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