{"id":6851,"date":"2010-06-09T22:14:35","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T05:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2010\/06\/drumbeats-the-tech-press-turns-on-microsofts-ballmer-newsweek\/"},"modified":"2010-06-09T22:14:35","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T05:14:35","slug":"drumbeats-the-tech-press-turns-on-microsofts-ballmer-newsweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2010\/06\/drumbeats-the-tech-press-turns-on-microsofts-ballmer-newsweek\/","title":{"rendered":"Drumbeats: The Tech Press Turns on Microsoft’s Ballmer – Newsweek"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Microsoft has a problem\u2014a big one. The problem is not just that its CEO, Steve Ballmer, has had a disastrous 10-year run. That\u2019s been obvious for a while now, as I first pointed out last October in a piece titled \u201cThe Lost Decade\u2014Why Steve Ballmer is no Bill Gates.\u201d
\n It even prompted me to predict, last fall, that Ballmer would get pushed out of Microsoft this year.<\/p>\n

That wasn\u2019t a popular position at the time. Microsoft\u2019s head of PR called my piece a \u201chit job on Steve,\u201d and told me all the ways I was wrong and stupid and off the mark. Then he pretty much stopped communicating with me.
\n I figured he was just in denial, or maybe just saying what he needed to say because he was getting paid to say it.
\n But my goodness, how much difference a year makes\u2014because these days everyone seems to be piling on Ballmer. And that poor PR guy has a much bigger problem on his hands.<\/p>\n

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Microsoft has a problem\u2014a big one. The problem is not just that its CEO, Steve Ballmer, has had a disastrous 10-year run. That\u2019s been obvious for a while now, as I first pointed out last October in a piece titled \u201cThe Lost Decade\u2014Why Steve Ballmer is no Bill Gates.\u201d It even prompted me to predict, … Continue reading Drumbeats: The Tech Press Turns on Microsoft’s Ballmer – Newsweek<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-1Mv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}