比尔盖次 可能重掌微软？

典

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/12/08/bill-gates-comeback/
What would a Bill Gates comeback look like?

It wouldn't be the first time a legendary founder stepped back into the fray to right his faltering company. Perhaps Gates has noticed the success of his Seattle neighbor Howard Schultz, who returned to a badly bruised Starbucks (SBUX) only to help it surge. (Schultz was Fortune's 2011 Businessperson of the Year.) Michael Dell, Steve Jobs and Larry Page all pulled similar maneuvers.

It wouldn't be the first time investors had flirted with the notion, either. Early this year, activist investor David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital publicly called current CEO Steve Ballmer a weight dragging down the company's share price, prompting the rumor that Gates might return. But Gates has been cool to the idea publicly, rebuffing it in 2010 and again this year in June, when he told the Daily Mail his work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation "is my job now." (Einhorn declined to comment for this story.)

The company's stock price has been a thorn in Ballmer's side for a decade. At the end of 1999, Microsoft's best year for market price, shares were at almost $60. When Ballmer took over as chief executive in January 2000, the stock was still over $50. With the burst of the tech bubble, Microsoft's stock dropped steeply and hovered around $25 area through much of the decade, excepting a short rally above $35 in late-2007 and a dip under $20 during the 2008 financial crisis. Ballmer dumped much of his stock during the decade and Bill Gates gradually left daily operations. (Gates' last full day was in June 2008.) During that time, the stock stayed flat as competitors such as Oracle (ORCL) and Apple (AAPL) saw huge gains in their share price.

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http://www.zdnet.com/blog/micros ... -white-knight/11366

Fortune reported on December 8 that there’s talk Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates might be mulling a comeback, largely to help boost Microsoft’s stagnant stock price and employee morale.

I have to say I am very, very, very skeptical on this one.

First, it seems this is a single-sourced report. Fortune says: “One prominent chief executive told Fortune he’d heard from someone close to Gates that he might be considering such a move.” There are no other sources cited in their story.

Gates has his hands full running the Gates Foundation right now. It’s obvious he is thoroughly engaged in what he’s doing. Gates denied, as recently as July 2011, that he planned to make a return to the company he started and from which he resigned his day-to-day duties back in 2008.

Sure, some current and former Softies long for the days when projects and technologies were allowed to percolate seemingly endlessly without having to become money makers. They preferred the Gates culture where geeks had more power than suits.

Gates supposedly still plays an active role as a part-timer at Microsoft. But returning as CEO and/or Chief Software Architect (a role vacated by Ray Ozzie earlier this year and subsequently abolished)? I just don’t see it — though I still do think Microsoft could use someone equipped to strategize across all of its business divisions and silos.

典

个人感觉， Ballmer 就是个商人而已，他没有什么思想
相比起来比尔还是有些思想的

gifox

股票一定会收到刺激上去。Ballmer 名声不好，有过投行建议他辞职的。

richsea

看看老包以前卖碟的广告，绝对是传销界的祖师爷啊

flyspirit

求连接

richsea

http://www.youtube.com/v/3YL-ClwBgt0

win1

richsea

http://www.youtube.com/v/wvsboPUjrGc

richsea

http://www.youtube.com/v/_-8IufkbuD0