Steve Ballmer's Popularity Within Microsoft Takes a Dive

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Microsoft employees want direction, vision, and leadership. Steve Ballmer is a sales guy and does not deliver on those. Seeing products flounder like WP7 or fail like Kin is disheartening. The developers who put in the long hours are losing faith in Ballmer.
 


The fact that Balmer is on this list proves that they do, indeed, include people without souls.
 
He doesn't have to be well liked to be good at this job. Ballmer is a manager, not a visionary.
The people under him have that "spark", he doesn't need it to keep the books balanced and people in line
 
Anybody that thinks that the company is better when Bill Gates was in power should give their head a shake. Ballmer - Jobs' best friend - was put in charge to clean up after Bill's mess of antitrust violations and failed products. Bill left shortly after Vista launched and he was also a key player in the Zune strategy. What does that say about him? Ballmer is actually doing a much better job. If you want to see who the "vision guy" is at Microsoft, you only need to look at Sinofsky. Sinofsky brought Office out of the predominantly-enterprise circles into the mass market with the new UI, and is doing the same again with Windows. Sinofsky is Microsoft's equivalent to Apple's Jony Ive. The more technical guy at Microsoft is Russinovich. Also, under Ballmer's leadership, the divisions are talking more together. Belfiore and Sinofsky are closely working on Metro together with Mattrick's Xbox division to get the unified UI on every platform. Under Bill's rule, every team worked independently, and let's not forget that the initial responses in major security problems were a complete disaster until Bill handed over the reigns.
 
I disagree waethorn. Gates gave microsoft so much. Yes he had a few issues, but what CEO hasn't?

I do agree that: Gates shouldn't be running the place, he should be working with those people who come up with the bright ideas. To be Ballmer is a guy that keeps everyone in line:

"Nope, we can't do that because ---reasons here--, come back with another angle"

Microsoft wouldn't be where it is today without Gates. I do think that they would be doing better if Gates came back and worked with Ballmer just as (you put it) the departments are working together
 
[citation][nom]madooo12[/nom]i think this study is wrong, MS has released some great products since like 2009, just see windows (phone) 7, windows 8, XNA, Office 2010, VS.net 2010, kodu and many great stuffif the MS guy gets low scores and the apple guy gets high one, i'll say people who make this study are quite biased and use macs[/citation]

you ever hear of the crap he does when he gets mad... even the hulk has more restraint then him... is is a decent pr man and a face, but a very unlikeable person off stage.

i mean didnt he once flip a desk over something minor...

[citation][nom]madooo12[/nom]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-8IufkbuD0i think employees should love ballmer because he is hilarioushe still is a nice bussiness man (better than jobs) (i already said that)[/citation]

balmer is like an alcoholic who is bad when drinking, but really kind and apologetic when sober, and he means it when he is sober too...

jobs was... like a used car dealer, a nice face and smile, telling just what you want to hear, but he installed a camera in the car and after he sold it to you, he kept monitoring you, and if you did anything he didn't like, he took it back...

dont cross him and you are golden.

[citation][nom]lathe26[/nom]Microsoft employees want direction, vision, and leadership. Steve Ballmer is a sales guy and does not deliver on those. Seeing products flounder like WP7 or fail like Kin is disheartening. The developers who put in the long hours are losing faith in Ballmer.[/citation]

want the kin extremely small and tried to compete with expensive smartphones, but the smart phones when subsidized cost as much if not less than a kin... and regardless of the plan you pay the same... who would want a kin over a full smartphone if you were in the market for one?

[citation][nom]blurr91[/nom]How does anyone get 100% approval rating? I remember Saddam Hussein used to get 100% of the votes when he ran Iraq.[/citation]

99.6, people who voted against him were killed.

[citation][nom]waethorn[/nom]Anybody that thinks that the company is better when Bill Gates was in power should give their head a shake. Ballmer - Jobs' best friend - was put in charge to clean up after Bill's mess of antitrust violations and failed products. Bill left shortly after Vista launched and he was also a key player in the Zune strategy. What does that say about him? Ballmer is actually doing a much better job. If you want to see who the "vision guy" is at Microsoft, you only need to look at Sinofsky. Sinofsky brought Office out of the predominantly-enterprise circles into the mass market with the new UI, and is doing the same again with Windows. Sinofsky is Microsoft's equivalent to Apple's Jony Ive. The more technical guy at Microsoft is Russinovich. Also, under Ballmer's leadership, the divisions are talking more together. Belfiore and Sinofsky are closely working on Metro together with Mattrick's Xbox division to get the unified UI on every platform. Under Bill's rule, every team worked independently, and let's not forget that the initial responses in major security problems were a complete disaster until Bill handed over the reigns.[/citation]

gates got crap to work... function over form... the zune was better than ipod (non touch) but ms products dont sell cool like ipod does, and thats what people want.

vista was more or less brand new everything... correct?
i despise the first version and have used it for a small ammount of time, but later versions got far better on useibility.

personaly i prefer gates method to current method, that appears to be style over function and to hell with everyone who used it before, lets change everything for no reason...

so you know i am getting 7 in 6 more days, i dont like it, but what ever ssd and 8gb ram need it.
 
[citation][nom]silver565[/nom]I disagree waethorn. Gates gave microsoft so much. Yes he had a few issues, but what CEO hasn't?I do agree that: Gates shouldn't be running the place, he should be working with those people who come up with the bright ideas. To be Ballmer is a guy that keeps everyone in line:"Nope, we can't do that because ---reasons here--, come back with another angle"Microsoft wouldn't be where it is today without Gates. I do think that they would be doing better if Gates came back and worked with Ballmer just as (you put it) the departments are working together[/citation]

Microsoft benefitted from Gates, but Gates couldn't cut it as CEO, which is why he put the lead business guy in charge. The reason this didn't happen sooner was because Gates was powertrippin' with the board. Gates almost caused the company to fall to the DoJ because of his reluctance to take antitrust violations seriously. Just look at the tape of him giving his dissertation and responses during the trials - he gave the attitude that he was just annoyed by the whole thing. The company is far better off without him on the throne. If the DoJ rules against Microsoft, they would probably have been broken up into multiple companies by now and they wouldn't be able to leverage existing technologies against others, and we certainly wouldn't have the unified Metro UI brought to the three major properties. Why is that so important? Well, in a year or two, Windows will be ported down into very small devices, otherwise known as smartphones. They won't have Windows CE to base Windows Phone off of for much longer. Also, the Xbox platform is already built on DirectX coding, so bringing as much Windows stuff as possible to it early is going to make future updates as seamless as possible. Yes, this likely means that future Xbox hardware revisions will likely contain a (heavily customized) version of Windows technologies.

[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]gates got crap to work... function over form... [/citation]
Right, but he just couldn't sell any of it. That's the function of marketing and leadership to drive it.

[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]vista was more or less brand new everything... correct?i despise the first version and have used it for a small ammount of time, but later versions got far better on useibility.[/citation]
Correct, and Gates didn't do anything to improve that. He left at launch, when the company was facing their biggest PR disaster because of poor reviews on the product.

[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]i am getting 7 in 6 more days, i dont like it, but what ever ssd and 8gb ram need it.[/citation]

Would you prefer to load cassette tapes in your new Corvette?
 
[citation][nom]Aintry[/nom]Eisenhower. Twice.[/citation]
Yes but both of Eisenhower's political opponents were bald as well so hair didn't factor in. Had either of the other two had a full head of hair he may have lost.
 
[citation][nom]greghome[/nom]That's actually rather high, try getting the 99%'s opinion on him.[/citation]
I bet they had a hard enough time finding 46 people in a group of 100 that actually like him....

[citation][nom]internetlad[/nom]Tim cook is 96 percent approved eh? Must be easy to be popular when all your employees are brainwashed.[/citation]
Even easier when you've only had your title for a few weeks....

[citation][nom]NuclearShadow[/nom]The list only includes those with souls.[/citation]
Not true....Jon Riccitello is on the list....
 
[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]telling just what you want to hear, but he installed a camera in the car and after he sold it to you, he kept monitoring you, and if you did anything he didn't like, he took it back...
[/citation]
You just described Apple perfectly right there...
 
[citation][nom]ta152h[/nom]That's before TV was widespread, and way before the internet.[/citation]
Can't you just concede my little point? I'd have a little more respect for you if you just backed down.
 
[citation][nom]millerm84[/nom]Yes but both of Eisenhower's political opponents were bald as well so hair didn't factor in. Had either of the other two had a full head of hair he may have lost.[/citation]
Nice try.
 
Apple's past ceo's have the most charm and best, most hypnotic presentations. Steve Ballmer's presentation reminds me, at worst, of some hyper ventilating, sweaty monkey. However, I know that windows 7 + machines are superior and I don't base my purchases on "how cool" the ceo looks or acts. And I do serious video and audio production work as well.
 
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