My take on Steve Balmer

He was not paranoid enough. He thrived too much on their previous success of Microsoft. He scoffed at apple when they went ipod, he scoffed at Google saying all they knew is search. He assumed, the PC was here to stay

Today most people do computing on non MS products. You read right, MOST. Because most computing is no longer word processing, database management etc plus there is countless cloud based solutions for all the above. Nowadays , computing is social media and mobile based. samsung and apple and google have increasingly locked MS out of the above ( although they earn royalties from patented technologies that all the above use)

They need a game changer, and it cannot be on incremental innovations and improvements technology. Google is working on smart cars, google glass, they are making big bets. Apple is always secretive on what they are working on. Samsung is conquering our lives from tvs to fridges to all sorts of devices.

Microsoft isnt going anywhere soon, but if they do not create urgency to start changing the game, they will slowly fade away ,their competitors are not sleeping

On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 9:08 PM, William Muriithi <william.muriithi@gmail.com> wrote:

> Why is it that when a company grows big and becomes successful, it becomes
> a hindrance to its future success? Seems it is very difficult for companies
> to avoid this curse in IT.
>

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator's_Dilemma

Check examples of disruptive technology here

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation

Muriithi
> On Sunday, 25 August 2013, Martin Akolo Chiteri wrote:
>
> > Some people think that this is a move which came ten years too late <
> > http://www.wired.com/business/2013/08/steve-ballmer-steps-down/ >
> >
> > Martin.
> > ______________________________________

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