Cringely Predicts: Eric Schmidt may replace Steve Ballmer
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Re: Cringely Predicts: Eric Schmidt may replace Steve Ballmer
#2This would be the best thing Microsoft would never do. I'd sure like to see it happen though.
Re: Cringely Predicts: Eric Schmidt may replace Steve Ballmer
#3obviously there will be a new ceo at some point. time passes.
it will not be schmidt.
Re: Cringely Predicts: Eric Schmidt may replace Steve Ballmer
#4Cringely's predictions are occasionally fun to read, but I regard him as a fiction author whose genre is West Coast technology firms.
Eric Schmidt's executive experience includes Sun Microsystems, Novell, and Google, and he spent time on Apple's board of directors. How could Microsoft staff and stockholders NOT treat Eric-as-CEO as a middle finger to the last decade's efforts? I imagine the stock price would be savaged by such a choice.
Re: Cringely Predicts: Eric Schmidt may replace Steve Ballmer
#5Ballmer already stated he's not leaving until 2017. Unless some kind of corporate catastrophe suddenly occurs, I have no reason not to believe him.
Re: Cringely Predicts: Eric Schmidt may replace Steve Ballmer
#6IF Eric Schmidt will do no evil,
AND doing no evil would wreck Microsoft's business,
AND wrecking Microsoft's business would do evil to Microsoft shareholders,
THEN Eric Schmidt cannot be CEO of Microsoft.