Now that the dust has settled, was Microsoft better during the Ballmer era?
In hindsight after we've seen what Microsoft turned into the past decade...

>>105793130 (OP)
Yes

it wasn't thoroughly jeetified which was nice but he did fumble mobile horrendously and just seemed to have zero vision. on balance though, yes, i'd like to go back

>>105793130 (OP)
He was lucky being fired wasn’t his only punishment for the Zune.

>>105793130 (OP)
we really need jeets out, only way to get rid of fucking ads in fucking file explorer and start menu fucks sake

>>105793130 (OP)
He gets 1 billion USD per year in stock dividends. Think about it. He is not selling stocks, that part of his net worth is staying untouched, he is getting 1 fucking billion every single year as dividend payments.

You know what I call that? BASED. He is living the life we all want.

Ballmer-era MS has been severely cucked by Applel on at least three counts:
>OS X Tiger actually delivering features that MS had failed to do for Longhorn
>the iPhone being released, with Sweaty Balls shrugging it off as unworthy of an e-mail machine and bragging about how Windows Mobile is "better"
>the iPad release convincing MS to jump into the "tablet as a PC replacement" later-to-be trainwreck
>as Windows 8 was developed with the Surface in mind, implementing the touch-centric UX at cost of diminished desktop experience for the rest of devices
And I am first to laugh at curryniggers from Cupertino. Of course Saartya Nutella ain't fucking better - just different aspects of failure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqFYsvxHZOs&t=20m5s

>>105793130 (OP)
he was right about focusing on developers and the rise of azure began during his reign while the current currynigger was a middle manager

>>105793185
FPBP

>>105793190
Ballmer was too late to mobile, similar to how Gates was semi-late to the Internet. They were riding high on Enterprise/Office and thought they didn't need to continue to evolve.

>>105793195
Zune was fine. Just extremely late to the party that Jobs started and couldn't step to Job's good user experience.

Honestly that is/was the biggest problem with MS that era: They could have alright to great hardware, but complete dogshit User Experience.

>>105795461
Revisionist cope. Did you love the wma format or something?

>>105793130 (OP)
He was firmly stuck in the 90's and as a result Microsoft lost its dominance to Apple and Google. Whether that's good or bad I don't know. Apple/Google suck by Microsoft was unbelievably fucking evil in their heyday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYC49_aeop0

>>105797078
>Microsoft was unbelievably fucking evil in their heyday.
They are still unbelievably evil, but now they are also unbelievably incompetent as well due to the pajeet infusion so they are somewhat less dangerous.

Bump

>>105793130 (OP)
Yes.
It was monopolistic and kind of meh, but you can't deny that it delivered products that were actually worth buying. Yeah there were software errors, but testing and compilers have come a long way, partly due to what they did at the time.

He pivoted to the Cloud with what was then known as Windows Azure. Had he not set the company on that path and continued to focus on OSes and boxed software, they might have been acquired by someone like Oracle by now. Instead it's a multi-trillion dollar company with a steady income flow from subscriptions and Cloud services.

>>105799235
>delivered products that were actually worth buying
Like what?

>>105799265
Maybe that anon should have written 'delivered product that businesses and governments will buy' because that's empirically what happened, even if Microsoft doesn't have much that appeals to your $3.50 in spending money.

>>105793130 (OP)
Obviously it was better, but that does not mean it was good. In the process of ongoing destruction, the past is necessarily better than the present.

>>105799314
You think businesses and governments bought Microsoft products because they were good? Lmao

>>105799260
>acquired by someone like Oracle by now
as much as I hate M$, I will still pick MS SQL Server over the abomination that is Oracle SQL. Thank god that never happened.

>>105799265
SQL Server, Office, Windows?
I'm a linchad gnu zealot, but that's just reality. they made good stuff.

>>105793130 (OP)
dude needs to lose weight, stop eating too much and learn about deodorants.

>>105799357
given I have never seen a major corporation with functioning FOSS only ecosystems? yes?

where is your cohesive non-M$ workplace that isn't Google? it should exist, but it doesn't.

>>105799444
Imagine the smell of his Ballmers

>>105797452
Well, the pajeet only cares about making money to fund their own kind of scam "unicorn" now
>>105799444
Kek

>>105793130 (OP)
Mr. Krabs you're getting all sweaty again.

>>105799466
I want to add, when I worked at piddly fuck companies. I was doing all Linux just fine. hell it's not that hard if you don't care about turning every workstation into some EDR'd spyware'd bullshit, but again, we live in a society of F500's that treat wagie machines like wholly managed garbage with outsourced turd world (or puerto rican) support staff.