Comment Comment by Bamafan > For whatever reason, the industry press never liked Ballmer, and I guess they like SatyaBallmer made several missteps:1. Fruitless foray into mobile with acquisition of Nokia and Windows Mobile and Windows Phone strategies.2. Billion+ dollar acquisition of Skype that basically went no where.3. Remember a company called aQuantive? Don't worry, neither does anyone else. Ballmer's MS purchased them for $6 billion.That's off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are more examples. parent Bamafan 7 years ago
Ballmer made several missteps:
1. Fruitless foray into mobile with acquisition of Nokia and Windows Mobile and Windows Phone strategies.
2. Billion+ dollar acquisition of Skype that basically went no where.
3. Remember a company called aQuantive? Don't worry, neither does anyone else. Ballmer's MS purchased them for $6 billion.
That's off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are more examples.