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by ThrowawayB7 702 days ago
That was more directly on Terry Myerson, VP of Mobile and Embedded Devices or whatever it was called at the time, than Ballmer.
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paxys 702 days ago
Can't credit wins to the CEO and blame subordinates for the losses. If Terry Myerson was failing then it was Ballmer's job to replace him (something that Nadella finally did).
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scosman 702 days ago
CEO of the PC company can't miss the new primary form of personal computing and blame a VP.
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ThrowawayB7 697 days ago
He didn't "miss" anything. Microsoft had wrested dominance in smartphones from Palm just before the iPhone was released. Ballmer may have made a mistake in keeping him on but Myerson was the person in charge of keeping Windows Phone competitive with iPhone.
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