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    Microsoft's 'Head Coach'

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    Post by macbook Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:49 pm

    http://www.macbytes.com/link.php?sid=20081011180338

    Microsoft's leader talks with PC Mag Español about Vista, Windows 7, the "cool" factor, his career, and motivational strategies and why "PCs are better than Macs."
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    Post by dmxplosive Sun Oct 12, 2008 1:47 pm

    "PCs are better than Macs" - but a Mac can be a PC
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    Post by irun Sun Oct 12, 2008 8:59 pm

    yeah, so if that's the case, then macs are better than pc's
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    Post by macbook Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:52 pm

    exactly. a mac can be a pc, but a pc can't be a mac
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    Post by dmxplosive Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:20 pm

    Our compatriots in Mexico recently sat down with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to discuss a wide range of topics, from Microsoft's "cool" factor to what Steve Ballmer might be doing if Bill Gates hadn't offered him a job. (Some of PC Magazine Español's questions have been edited for clarity.)

    PC MAGAZINE: Thank you. To start, what would have happened if you didn't accept the Bill Gates invitation to work for Microsoft 28 years ago?
    STEVE BALLMER: I think it's impossible to know. I think it would be a different place for sure. Might be bigger, might be smaller, might be more successful, might be less, but it would certainly be different. I think, you know, if you look at it—the skills and knowledge and capability that Bill brought and that I brought were very different. And I think in some measure, the success of the company depended on both, a certain kind of a vision and—what should I say?—product strategy sense that Bill provided and a certain kind of an energy and people sense that I provided. And the fact that he and I could work together so very, very well I think was critical.

    PC MAGAZINE: If you wouldn't have taken this job, what would you have missed?

    STEVE BALLMER: Well, I would have missed, sort of in a sense, everything professionally. I don't know what I would have done. Maybe I'd be—the other kinds of things, I thought about going to work in a fantastic insurance company. It was almost a startup, actually, when I would have gone there, and now it's the third largest auto insurer in the U.S., it's a great company. That was actually one of my most interesting job offers.

    I might have gone to be a consultant, and I'm sure I'd be doing something else by now. Undoubtedly, my professional life wouldn't have been as rich or fulfilling or interesting or rewarding in any sense.

    PC MAGAZINE: And what would Microsoft miss without Steve Ballmer?

    STEVE BALLMER: Well, in a sense, you have to go back historically. I've been kind of three things I would say: I've been kind of the spiritual leader a little bit of the people, a little bit of the energy and enthusiasm. Bill's got a lot of energy and enthusiasm, but he keeps it inside. I tend to wear mine, as we say, on the sleeve. And certainly we would say the business execution. Certainly I've provided sort of a certain kind of discipline and leadership around it. And would Bill have found somebody else to do that? It's possible. But we each brought sort of a certain set of value and attributes, I would say, to the equation.

    I mean, it's so hard to say. When I joined Microsoft, we were 30 people and 2 1/2 million in sales. So in a sense, you know, Bill started Microsoft, they'd been around for five years, but for all intents and purposes, the Microsoft of today was—was it built when Bill started it? Was it built in the last 10 years? Was it built in the last 20 years? It's almost hard to say.

    PC MAGAZINE: Okay. And in the business team—are you concerned that Microsoft market share can remain roughly 90 percent to Apple's 8 percent and Linux's 0.8 percent? Are you concerned that could change?

    STEVE BALLMER: Today, Apple has much less share than that. They have about 3 percent of the market—a little less than 3 percent of the total market is Mac. We do our job right—not just Microsoft, we and our partners. I mean, because in some senses, the thing that really competes are Windows PCs against Macs. And Windows PCs come in various flavors and sizes and forms and shapes and price points. And some are good and some are less good. I mean, they're all over the map. But part of the way we have competed successfully with Apple is not just on the quality of our software versus theirs, but the variety of experiences and choice that we and our partners, hardware vendors, device driver vendors, application vendors provide. And I still think choice—choice on price, choice on capability, choice on applications—I think choice is a big deal. And if we do it right, I continue to think we'll do very, very well. —next: Justifying the Price >

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