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Ballmer reshuffles the crew of the Titanic
A FEW DAYS from the launch of Windows Mobile 7, the shy and soft-spoken CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer has had a go at reshuffling its senior management about.
Microsoft's position in the mobile phone market has died a terrible death and the shake-up can be seen as the captain reshuffling his crew after the Titanic hit the iceburg.
Andy Lees moves to president of the Vole's mobile communications business, and Don Mattrick goes to president of its interactive entertainment business. Kurt DelBene has been promoted to president of the office division,
Ballmer mimed to the press that the promotions underscore the strength of Microsoft's collective leadership team and "set us up well to execute against a powerful lineup of products".
The products in question are Office, Sharepoint, Windows Phone 7, Kinect for the Xbox 360 and the game title Halo: Reach.
DelBene, 50, has been with the company for 18 years and most recently led the engineering and development teams for the Microsoft business division, including development of the recently launched Office 2010 products and services.
As president, DelBene gets control of the Microsoft Office division, including both the engineering and marketing functions for clients, servers and services for information workers, including Office, Exchange, Sharepoint, Lync, Project, Visio and Microsoft's speech technology investment.
Lees, 45, will continue to oversee the overall marketing and product development for Microsoft's mobility efforts. Lees, a 20-year Microsoft veteran, has led the mobile communications business since February 2008 and is at the centre of the company's efforts to rebuild the mobile business.
Mattrick, 46, joined Microsoft in 2007 to lead the interactive entertainment business and is one of the brains behind the Xbox 360.
As president of the interactive entertainment business, Mattrick will continue to oversee a wide array of businesses and services focused on consumer entertainment, including Xbox 360, Xbox Live, Kinect, Zune music and video, and Mediaroom, as well as PC and mobile interactive entertainment. µ
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So let me get this straight: Steve Balmer who promised the previous mobile phone incarnation KiN, and previous promises of fabulous Microsoft-based tablet PCs with partners such as HP, is now promising an entirely NEW tablet design "ready for the holiday (2010) season" ...??? Well - let's just see about that. Balmer's balsy comments should be held accountable by Microsoft's shareholders and ridiculed by the tech and computing community if no such product(s) come to fruition. This guy is a classic snake oil salesman - what a loud mouthed goof. If only Bill Gates minimized his time jumping on planes and traveling the world in support of his charities, maybe he would have a chance to realize that the castle he built is being thrown into disarray. What a joke.
So let me get this straight: Steve Balmer who promised the previous mobile phone incarnation KiN, and previous promises of fabulous Microsoft-based tablet PCs with partners such as HP, is now promising an entirely NEW tablet design "ready for the holiday (2010) season" ...??? Well - let's just see about that. Balmer's balsy comments should be held accountable by Microsoft's shareholders and ridiculed by the tech and computing community if no such product(s) come to fruition. This guy is a classic snake oil salesman - what a loud mouthed goof. If only Bill Gates minimized his time jumping on planes and traveling the world in support of his charities, maybe he would have a chance to realize that the castle he built is being thrown into disarray. What a joke.
Balmer Sinks Ship !
So let me get this straight: Steve Balmer who promised the previous mobile phone incarnation KiN, and previous promises of fabulous Microsoft-based tablet PCs with partners such as HP, is now promising an entirely NEW tablet design "ready for the holiday (2010) season" ...??? Well - let's just see about that. Balmer's balsy comments should be held accountable by Microsoft's shareholders and ridiculed by the tech and computing community if no such product(s) come to fruition. This guy is a classic snake oil salesman - what a loud mouthed goof. If only Bill Gates minimized his time jumping on planes and traveling the world in support of his charities, maybe he would have a chance to realize that the castle he built is being thrown into disarray. What a joke.
Why the heck would consumers be interested in Windows Phone 7 handsets when there are an abundance of proven Android smartphones? There were some rumors that the UI on WP7 doesn't make any sense at all to users. They see all those live tiles and they don't know what to make of them. I wonder who came up with that live tiles interface. Anyway, if WP7 handsets fail to gain traction with consumers, look for Wall Street to punish this stock severely. Shareholders are getting fed up with failure after failure by Microsoft. Who can blame them. Windows on mobile phones are almost forgotten and will have a difficult time coming back. Hopefully, the WP7 handsets will last longer than the Kin.
So let me get this straight: Steve Balmer who promised the previous mobile phone incarnation KiN, and previous promises of fabulous Microsoft-based tablet PCs with partners such as HP, is now promising an entirely NEW tablet design "ready for the holiday (2010) season" ...??? Well - let's just see about that. Balmer's balsy comments should be held accountable by Microsoft's shareholders and ridiculed by the tech and computing community if no such product(s) come to fruition. This guy is a classic snake oil salesman - what a loud mouthed goof. If only Bill Gates minimized his time jumping on planes and traveling the world in support of his charities, maybe he would have a chance to realize that the castle he built is being thrown into disarray. What a joke.
Why the heck would consumers be interested in Windows Phone 7 handsets when there are an abundance of proven Android smartphones? There were some rumors that the UI on WP7 doesn't make any sense at all to users. They see all those live tiles and they don't know what to make of them. I wonder who came up with that live tiles interface. Anyway, if WP7 handsets fail to gain traction with consumers, look for Wall Street to punish this stock severely. Shareholders are getting fed up with failure after failure by Microsoft. Who can blame them. Windows on mobile phones are almost forgotten and will have a difficult time coming back. Hopefully, the WP7 handsets will last longer than the Kin.
After the abysmal failure of the "Kin" (and its upcoming replacement with its re-branded replacement "WinPhone7") why did they not change the name of "Kin-ect" (which apparently was supposed to somehow associate with the wondrous "Kin" phone line), to something like "Win-connect7"...to use the same "successful" name-change bailout strategy they used for the VistaSP4, I mean, Windows 7, and "KinSP1", I mean WinPhone7?
I hope the whole "kin and kaboodle" blows up in their greedy faces, but I sure hope they do not fire Ballmer. He is doing a great job showing the world that money, power, oppression of employees, manipulation of consumers via advertising, anticompetitive business "incentives", and legal attacks against competitors is no longer a viable way to run a business.
By your standards Apple would fall in the same category of Fail for Desktop OS's. But they are not and so is windows mobile with millions of handsets still in use. Once WP7 comes out they will quickly gain ground and recoup the loss they have incurred over the last couple of years.
If you check a lot of the video gaming web sites, Xbox gamers are looking forward to WinMo7. Xbox Live connectivity is a big plus to a lot of young gamers looking for a true mobile phone/gaming platform. As an HP Ipaq user, I can't wait for WinMo7. I will finally be able to dump my PDA.
@ Gunggel - Yes, Windows Mobile once had over 20% of the market back in the days before the iPhone and Android, when there was no competition.
If you look at Gartner's most recent figures, Windows Mobile has plummeted to just 4.9%. That's a massive fail in anyone's language.
The problem for Microsoft is that nobody wants Windows Phones. Everyone wants iPhones, Androids, and BlackBerrys instead.
Windows mobile did not fail at all. When version 6 was introduced it became the most feature complete smartphone OS. It took Apple two years to catch up to the features that WinMo offers. As of today it's still holding on to an 11% market-share.
Microsoft's woeful Windows Phone 7 will be released in a few weeks.
Every mobile device platform Microsoft ever released as failed.
-PlaysForSure failed.
-Windows Mobile failed.
-Sidekick failed.
-Kin phones failed.
Soon Microsoft will add yet another failure to the list... Windows Phone 7. I feel sorry for the poor sods who will buy these obsolete bricks.
After Windows Phone 7 gets axed, so will Ballmer be given the heave-ho. Sooner the better, to get the sorry saga over with.