Not Entirely A Lost Decade

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Steve Ballmer is no Steve Jobs, and Steve Ballmer is no Bill Gates. You needed a Steve Jobs to spring forth the iPhone and the iPad. And those two have taken Apple into the stratosphere. You can't fault Steve Ballmer for not having come up with the iPhone or the iPad, although he has made some strategic mistakes even in those two spaces coming in as a latecomer.

But I think Microsoft might be able to do with gestures what Apple has done with touch. 3D computing might see a better day for Microsoft.

Steve Ballmer's number one failure though is the corporate decadence at Microsoft. There is too much red tape in Redmond. That is something Steve Ballmer is capable of rectifying but has not. Most of the lost decade sting he has earned through that inaction.

Steve Jobs paid Ballmer the ultimate anti compliment by calling him Sculley.