[ryanburk]

so I was at microsoft until recently and I can say that almost everything on this list had nothing to do with the CEO change outside of him being on the earnings call and the exec changes.

at a company as large as microsoft and after the billg era of constant product reviews, most of these decisions were never "ballmer" decisions, they were made by the folks who run their divisions. e.g. changes to windows for the start menu in 8.1 update were made over a year ago and by folks working for terry myerson, not ballmer and definitely not nadella.

[yuhong]

I have my own personal wishlist: http://hal2020.com/2014/03/03/satya-shuffles-his-leadership/...

What do you think?

[ryanburk]

hal berenson is super smart and I think says it best in his reply to your comment[1].

microsoft, just like google and apple and redhat and linkedin and facebook, is a company - it is there to make money for shareholders. what they do to make money and how they do it can be very different and cause disagreements. but I think people don't always think of that when considering tech endeavors, particularly when there is any entry in a market that is free.

[1] http://hal2020.com/2014/03/03/satya-shuffles-his-leadership/...

[yuhong]

Well, at least some of this stuff was unethical, for example OOXML.

This wishlist was partly inspired by this comment BTW: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7281319