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[โ€“] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Under his watch MS missed the smartphone boat, waffled between consumer and commercial products, Windows Vista, Bing, stack ranking employees, organizational silos, pushed a know it all mindset (as opposed to a learning mindset), etc.

The next CEO did a lot of cleanup for many years.

[โ€“] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah? But how much money did he earn the shareholders? Innovation doesnt matter if your making bank already