Good News, Ballmer Bails

Ballmer’s Pending Departure Only Makes His Mistakes More Obvious

"The announcement of Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer’s plans to
retire within the next 12 months was just seconds old when shares of
the famed software maker took off, up 8% in pre-market trading merely
on investor glee that the king was (almost) dead."
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/ballmer-pending-departure-only-makes-mistakes-more-obvious-152644227.html
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On 08/23/2013 12:18 PM, CRNG wrote:
Ballmer’s Pending Departure Only Makes His Mistakes More Obvious

"The announcement of Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer’s plans to
retire within the next 12 months was just seconds old when shares of
the famed software maker took off, up 8% in pre-market trading merely
on investor glee that the king was (almost) dead."
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/ballmer-pending-departure-only-makes-mistakes-more-obvious-152644227.html



"within the next 12 months" could mean as soon as RIGHT NOW!


It's not easy to lose a billion dollars.

On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:35:08 -0500, philo* wrote
in Re Good News, Ballmer Bails:

On 08/23/2013 12:18 PM, CRNG wrote:
Ballmer’s Pending Departure Only Makes His Mistakes More Obvious

"The announcement of Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer’s plans to
retire within the next 12 months was just seconds old when shares of
the famed software maker took off, up 8% in pre-market trading merely
on investor glee that the king was (almost) dead."
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/ballmer-pending-departure-only-makes-mistakes-more-obvious-152644227.html

"within the next 12 months" could mean as soon as RIGHT NOW!

It's not easy to lose a billion dollars.

It is when you act like this:

http://youtu.be/wvsboPUjrGc

and develop something like Win-8
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On 08/23/2013 03:42 PM, CRNG wrote:
On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:35:08 -0500, philo wrote
in Re Good News, Ballmer Bails:

On 08/23/2013 12:18 PM, CRNG wrote:
Ballmer’s Pending Departure Only Makes His Mistakes More Obvious

"The announcement of Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer’s plans to
retire within the next 12 months was just seconds old when shares of
the famed software maker took off, up 8% in pre-market trading merely
on investor glee that the king was (almost) dead."
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/ballmer-pending-departure-only-makes-mistakes-more-obvious-152644227.html

"within the next 12 months" could mean as soon as RIGHT NOW!

It's not easy to lose a billion dollars.

It is when you act like this:

http://youtu.be/wvsboPUjrGc

and develop something like Win-8



I guess the value of Microsoft actually went down by several hundred
billion...
his "crazy" video didn't lose any money though.

On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:42:29 -0500, CRNG
wrote:


Web based forums are like subscribing to 10 different newspapers
and having to visit 10 different news stands to pickup each one.
Email list-server groups and USENET are like having all of those
newspapers delivered to your door every morning.

Well said!


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On 23/08/2013 18:18, CRNG wrote:
Ballmer’s Pending Departure Only Makes His Mistakes More Obvious

"The announcement of Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer’s plans to
retire within the next 12 months was just seconds old when shares of
the famed software maker took off, up 8% in pre-market trading merely
on investor glee that the king was (almost) dead."
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/ballmer-pending-departure-only-makes-mistakes-more-obvious-152644227.html


Probably Bill Gates is coming back!! Bill Gates originally went to
appease the anti-trust nutters to leave M$ alone and it seems it worked
to an extent. The number of law suits against M$ went down dramatically
after Bill went. Now he might come back. Bill was a programmer so the
competitors were scarred of him; Ballmer is a business man and so
competitors weren't scarred of him.

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Bill is not coming back.
- not the greatest engineer, and poorly received by Wall St, his vision
(years ago) was appropriate for the period not so today.

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msft mvp consumer apps


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On 23/08/2013 18:18, CRNG wrote:
Ballmer’s Pending Departure Only Makes His Mistakes More Obvious

"The announcement of Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer’s plans to
retire within the next 12 months was just seconds old when shares of
the famed software maker took off, up 8% in pre-market trading merely
on investor glee that the king was (almost) dead."
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/ballmer-pending-departure-only-makes-mistakes-more-obvious-152644227.html


Probably Bill Gates is coming back!! Bill Gates originally went to
appease the anti-trust nutters to leave M$ alone and it seems it worked
to an extent. The number of law suits against M$ went down dramatically
after Bill went. Now he might come back. Bill was a programmer so the
competitors were scarred of him; Ballmer is a business man and so
competitors weren't scarred of him.

--
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Website: http://mytaxsite.co.uk
Website: http://html-css.co.uk
Email: http://mytaxsite.co.uk/contact-us

On 8/26/2013 8:22 PM, Good Guy wrote:
On 23/08/2013 18:18, CRNG wrote:
Ballmer’s Pending Departure Only Makes His Mistakes More Obvious

"The announcement of Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer’s plans to
retire within the next 12 months was just seconds old when shares of
the famed software maker took off, up 8% in pre-market trading merely
on investor glee that the king was (almost) dead."
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/ballmer-pending-departure-only-makes-mistakes-more-obvious-152644227.html



Probably Bill Gates is coming back!! Bill Gates originally went to
appease the anti-trust nutters to leave M$ alone and it seems it worked
to an extent. The number of law suits against M$ went down dramatically
after Bill went. Now he might come back. Bill was a programmer so the
competitors were scarred of him; Ballmer is a business man and so
competitors weren't scarred of him.

Bill was known to be about as ruthless a business man as there ever was.
I think that had more to do with things than the fact that at one time,
he was an inventive programmer.

On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 01:22:19 +0100, Good Guy
wrote:

On 23/08/2013 18:18, CRNG wrote:
Ballmer?s Pending Departure Only Makes His Mistakes More Obvious

"The announcement of Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer?s plans to
retire within the next 12 months was just seconds old when shares of
the famed software maker took off, up 8% in pre-market trading merely
on investor glee that the king was (almost) dead."
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/ballmer-pending-departure-only-makes-mistakes-more-obvious-152644227.html


Probably Bill Gates is coming back!!


I'm not a betting man, but if I were, I'd quickly take you up on that.
As far as I'm concerned, it's *highly* unlikely.


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On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:07:28 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:42:29 -0500, CRNG
wrote:


Web based forums are like subscribing to 10 different newspapers
and having to visit 10 different news stands to pickup each one.
Email list-server groups and USENET are like having all of those
newspapers delivered to your door every morning.

Well said!

Indeed! It went into my sig collection.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Ken Blake wrote:
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 01:22:19 +0100, Good Guy
wrote:

On 23/08/2013 18:18, CRNG wrote:
Ballmer?s Pending Departure Only Makes His Mistakes More Obvious

"The announcement of Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer?s plans to
retire within the next 12 months was just seconds old when shares of
the famed software maker took off, up 8% in pre-market trading merely
on investor glee that the king was (almost) dead."
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/ballmer-pending-departure-only-makes-mistakes-more-obvious-152644227.html

Probably Bill Gates is coming back!!


I'm not a betting man, but if I were, I'd quickly take you up on that.
As far as I'm concerned, it's *highly* unlikely.


They will shop for a plug-in replacement for Ballmer, on Ebay.

There are plenty of gently used ones.

Paul

On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 01:22:19 +0100, Good Guy
wrote:

Probably Bill Gates is coming back!! Bill Gates originally went to
appease the anti-trust nutters to leave M$ alone and it seems it worked
to an extent. The number of law suits against M$ went down dramatically
after Bill went. Now he might come back. Bill was a programmer so the
competitors were scarred of him; Ballmer is a business man and so
competitors weren't scarred of him.

Chicks dig scars.