Has this been posted? This is a pretty incredible article about msft from the register.
A modern-day Gerstner is needed to cure all of Microsoft’s ills
We could go on. The abject and predictable failure of Zune, setbacks in the browser wars with Opera, Safari and Firefox on the PC, and on handsets, all making Internet Explorer less and less a household name, the failure to penetrate handsets with a decent downloadable DRM, the failure to lure advertising network DoubleClick into a merger (it went to Google), and the countless lawsuits, are all symptoms that Microsoft management isn’t losing its way, it has lost it sometime ago.
Microsoft needs leadership that can innovate, not bully and it can go one of two ways. It can find itself a new visionary, like Gates himself, or it can opt for someone who’s skills are corporate management and accounting based, as Gerstner’s were.
The one thing it cannot continue to do is let itself be run by marketing and continue to repeat the bundling tricks of previous technology generations.
Ballmer needs to call it a day, preferable graciously, and in his place someone is needed who can change Microsoft’s reputation from a playground bully to a company that can be sensibly invited onto the handset, and onto IPTV set tops and onto Linux and Apple platforms, with its own next generation of platforms, none of which are operating systems.
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