Why not announce this with Ballmer's retirement? Why not delay Ballmer's retirement announcement a couple of weeks so they could announce Elop as the next CEO? They already know this guy, why haven't they given him the job already?
I don't see this happening.
MS still cannot help itself it seems.
So they're still rearranging the deck chairs, Elop as the new CEO or not. Let's see how things look in a year.
I cant think of a better candidate for CEO. Elop has failed in every leadership position he has taken. His latest, being the most destructive...taking Nokia and flushing it down the failed Windows Phone toilet. I can not wait for him to increase the fail rate at Microsoft. This is great!!!
Not saying they couldn't change their mind, but the only announcement the board has made so far is that they said they were going to pick from amongst their own ranks.
i.e.- someone from the board would be tapped as the next CEO.
2) He was a Microsoft agent from the start. He drove Nokia's share price down to a level that Microsoft could afford (less than Google paid for Motorola, less than Microsoft even paid for Skype). He handcuffed Nokia to Microsoft's operating system, got rid of all of Nokia's software talent and cancelled every 'plan B' project. He backed Nokia into a corner where Nokia was no longer in a position to refuse Microsoft's offer. He played his role perfectly and is the perfect candidate to become CEO of Microsoft.
I hate it when the conspiracy theorists are right.
Fire one guy for running the company into the ground and hire another who will undoubtedly do the same....sounds very Microsoftian to me. I really hope this is not the case for them.
On another note, I still believe that Nokia would've done well to purchase Palm/WebOS and push it's own platform. To me the only problem that plagued WebOS was that Palm could never deliver good enough hardware to go with it. Nokia doesn't have that problem. Imagine these new series of phones that Nokia's been producing, but instead of running Windows Phone they were running an updated/iterated version of WebOS. now THAT would be something very competitive that I believe would have no problem carving out a very strong 3rd position in the market.
Strange, as Elop was thought to be at risk at Nokia because of the failure of Win Phone gaining enough sales after this amount of time. Also, Nokia was trying very hard for several years to get rid of their networking g business, which will now be their main business.
Well... what is realistic expectation of new platform's success, on market with two heavyweights sparring for the last 5 years or more?
Lumia line has good growth and my understanding is that it brought Nokia back to profitability... but they did start from cold zero. Asha line has underperformed, but isn't that basically remaining of Symbian platform?
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Originally Posted by williamlondon
Why not announce this with Ballmer's retirement? Why not delay Ballmer's retirement announcement a couple of weeks so they could announce Elop as the next CEO? They already know this guy, why haven't they given him the job already?
I don't see this happening.
MS still cannot help itself it seems.
So they're still rearranging the deck chairs, Elop as the new CEO or not. Let's see how things look in a year.
I cant think of a better candidate for CEO. Elop has failed in every leadership position he has taken. His latest, being the most destructive...taking Nokia and flushing it down the failed Windows Phone toilet. I can not wait for him to increase the fail rate at Microsoft. This is great!!!
What about Satya Nadella?
Not saying they couldn't change their mind, but the only announcement the board has made so far is that they said they were going to pick from amongst their own ranks.
i.e.- someone from the board would be tapped as the next CEO.
My god, we've gone from Uncle Fester to Comedian/Actor Robert Wuhl.
Tell me he's not the spitting image...
What's the alternative explanation? That he would be the right man for the job?
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
Aww… I'd hoped AI would have posted the GOOD version of this picture.
You mean this one?
32359673-1459-47fd-ac2d-db0f62227623_Ballmer.gif
The .gif you mean?
edit: pipped by BigMac2
Originally Posted by BigMac2
You mean this one?
32359673-1459-47fd-ac2d-db0f62227623_Ballmer.gif
That's the one… it's almost comforting in its creepiness now.
The more I think about this, the more balmy this whole deal sounds.
Wait...
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
That's the one… it's almost comforting in its creepiness now.
Here is a compilation of Ballmer's "goof"
http://news.yahoo.com/steve-ballmer-gif-retirement-party-153638957.html
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Originally Posted by RichL
2) He was a Microsoft agent from the start. He drove Nokia's share price down to a level that Microsoft could afford (less than Google paid for Motorola, less than Microsoft even paid for Skype). He handcuffed Nokia to Microsoft's operating system, got rid of all of Nokia's software talent and cancelled every 'plan B' project. He backed Nokia into a corner where Nokia was no longer in a position to refuse Microsoft's offer. He played his role perfectly and is the perfect candidate to become CEO of Microsoft.
I hate it when the conspiracy theorists are right.
BINGO!
And that makes it OK?
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
Aww… I'd hoped AI would have posted the GOOD version of this picture.
In that picture I see the dead eyes of a circus clown.
Fire one guy for running the company into the ground and hire another who will undoubtedly do the same....sounds very Microsoftian to me. I really hope this is not the case for them.
On another note, I still believe that Nokia would've done well to purchase Palm/WebOS and push it's own platform. To me the only problem that plagued WebOS was that Palm could never deliver good enough hardware to go with it. Nokia doesn't have that problem. Imagine these new series of phones that Nokia's been producing, but instead of running Windows Phone they were running an updated/iterated version of WebOS. now THAT would be something very competitive that I believe would have no problem carving out a very strong 3rd position in the market.
Yeah. Looks like they found a spoiled brat with social skills deficit to replace a spoiled brat with social skills deficit.
Well... what is realistic expectation of new platform's success, on market with two heavyweights sparring for the last 5 years or more?
Lumia line has good growth and my understanding is that it brought Nokia back to profitability... but they did start from cold zero. Asha line has underperformed, but isn't that basically remaining of Symbian platform?