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Really? In about a year? Think he really will? Think he's really wanting to, or has been pushed out?

http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-ba ... ire-2013-8

Well Microsoft has made some serious mistakes. They believed that their world domination would go on so they came up with that secure boot thing that pretty much reserves the computers for Windows 8.

Ironically with ARM (smartphone) you cannot turn the secure boot off - so they wanted to take over that market with Windows 8 software together with Nokia.

So far this has been a colossal fiasco.

As long as Windows 8 reduces the functionality of the hardware I think it is going to stay a failure.
And being instructed by the NSA to spy on the customers does not exactly help the business - although Ballmer cannot be blamed for this.

Apple has been instructed too - so that helps a bit. But Microsoft has a server business - and I think that is in for a lot of trouble.

I for one do not want a server where it is more than likely that the NSA has a backdoor.
That goes for clients too. Ironically Windows 8 with it's secure boot is the most insecure of them all.

Most people want to be in control over what doors are opened and closed on their servers - well because it is their server

The new guy will have a hell of a job to overcome that general loss of confidence.

It's looking like Ballmer was pushed out, and not solely because of the mobile market, although that is one of the biggest reasons.

Interesting, this. I was thinking the same thing, as much as I can't stand Gates:

Jack Gold wrote:"Maybe it's time," Gold says, "for Bill Gates to come back on a temporary basis."

More here

More on this:

Still, thanks to the success of its mainstay
businesses, Microsoft has been able to afford
multibillion-dollar investments in newer fields like Internet search, digital media players, smartphone software, and, recently, tablets, NSA backdoor exploits, and bribing foreign officials.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/techn ... rtist.html

Yes Microsoft is the Dinosaur in the market - they are big. And may well only become fossils in the future.
They have been defending old successes for so long that they have forgotten to develop. That licensing crap where they try to leach of the work of others really confirms this lack of ability to innovate.