What are your honest thoughts about Microsoft's 2000 to 2014 CEO Steve Ballmer and why did everything fall apart after he left?
>>109868775Reminder that windows 8 happened on his watch.
I've got four words.
>>109868787The fact he still refuses to acknowledge touchpad tablet faggotry was a massive mistake is hilarious
>>109868775>the stern white male stepping down from being in charge to allow DEI leader to take overIt's a symbolic action that usually is the prelude to decline in any organization, government, or empire.
>>109868794>is obviously coked out of his mind>visibly drenched in sweat >disheveled looking like he just spent the last night on a bender>has to explain to a bunch of billionaire investors, glowies, and the general public why his product matters>just starts screaming the word "DEVELOPERS" at them over and over again>whole crowd erupts in cheering and applause Say what you say about Silicone Valley boomers like him and Steve Jobs but they had SOUL
>>109868775>why did everything fall apart after he left?No, he left because everything was falling apart.
I wonder if any of the actual *good* devs like Raymond Chen even work on modern Windows.
>>109868775Ballmer was terrible for Microsoft and somehow Nadella has been even worse.
>>109868807I don't think he cared about mobile products and was happy focusing on PC but their shareholders were putting a ton of pressure on him because Apple started to monopolize that growing field
>>109868847Ballmer board
>>109868815What happened problems? I dont see problems?
>>109868787So did Azure and Office 365, which are pretty much all of Microsoft's profit now.
the others?
>>109868775Perhaps there is something in his genetics that makes him a sleazeball crook.
>>109868874Whoa! Didn't know they were gay!
All he really had to contend with was keeping the ship afloat and reacting to iPod/iPhone/iPad.
>>109868775bad but better than the people after him
>>109869533>and reacting to iPod/iPhone/iPadhe did, unfortunately, in the right way instead of the smart way
I like to watch LA Clippers:3
he fought against the investor board to keep the xbox department alive despite the huge losses. he couldn't accept that none of the consoles back then (nintendo, dreamcast, playingstation) was american made.
>>109868775I liked he made Visual Studio available for free. Back then it was a game changer to me. In general, I think it was peak time for Windows.
>>109868815>whiteOhhnononono
>>109868815The fact that searching “system settings” in the search bar plus enter brings up a Microsoft Edge webpage telling you how to get to “system settings” through clicking Start and navigating your system via settings. Instead of, you know, SHOWING ME THE FUCKING SYSTEM SETTINGS IN THE CONTROL PANEL FOR MY OWN SYSTEM. I hope at the next Bill Gates board room meeting they make sure to not leave the explosive-laden suitcase too close to the heavy table leg preventing the impact from sweeping through Bill’s timid fragile code monkey frame.
>>109868775Funny, gave Microsoft a likable feel, best Microsoft era happened with him, white.Everything fell apart after him because they wanted Windows to be usable by women and blacks, and because they replaced white devs with retarded indians.
>>109868775Around the year 2000 was when Microsoft transitioned from developer culture to corporate culture. Steve Ballmer did a lot of damage. He was at the helm the day computing died (The release of Vista). He was at the helm during the creation of windows 8. The rot started under him. The Jeet may have accelerated the rot but it begin with Ballmer.
>>109868815The funny thing is the dog search was also crippled garbage. Windows 2000 was the last time windows came with a search functionality that worked 100% out of the box.
>>109868775Things started falling apart before he left. He initiated the downfall of Microsoft. He underestimated the iPhone, wasted money on the whole tablet idea, that was the point where Windows' UI got permanently rotten by the tabletshit due to how Windows is developed, and because he lost a ton of money, he got moved away by the board of directors, replaced with Nadella, and while Nadella made Microsoft money, he did so by enshittifying every single one of their products.>>109870643I have very vivid memories of the dog search doing fuck-all back when I used Windows XP. I love these rose tinted glasses faggots that have a massive hate boner for modern Windows to the point where they gaslit themselves into believing XP was better than it actually was. All because it reminds them of a better time in their lives.If anything, Win10/Win11 indexer is pretty damn swell all things considered, but the frontend you interact with it is complete and utter dogshit. Non-existent autocomplete and shoehorned web search by default. WinXP's indexing was non-existant and that yellow dog couldn't find jackshit.
>>109870812Serious users disabled the dog garbage. The windows 2000 search still exists in XP. Though you need to make a number of other registry tweaks to restore its ability to find everything. XP changed things so that search will not look inside unknown file types, whilst windows 2000 by default performs an exhaustive search
>>109870890Windows 2000 truly was the last great Windows, and everyone who insists it was XP/7 were simply too young or never got around to experiencing the prowess of Dave Cutler's magnum opus.
>>109869764Clearly wasn't the right way lmao
>>109868787nothing wrong with it
>>109871026Not really. Under the hood it was the best Windows NT iteration since 2000, yes, can't deny that. But Ballmer's insistence on tablets turned the UI into garbage, and his tablet obsession is what ultimately put Nadellla in charge of the company. It was the event horizon for Microsoft.
>>109868775Genuinely one of the most motivational stories out there, I mean if he could become the CEO of one of the most powerful companies in the world, anything is possible.
>>109871048Aside from the retarded start screen (which could be circumvented literally weeks after 8 first came out anyways), the Windows 8 UI was pretty good. I disliked it at first but its standard theme grew on me and after a few weeks I liked it more than Aero. Nowadays I think 8/8.1 is one of the best looking Windows desktop environments ever, only surpassed by Windows 2000 and XP with 2000 Classic theme.>Under the hood it was the best Windows NT iteration since 2000, yesThe best iteration to this day IMO. First and only time in history that a new version of Windows was actually faster, more responsive and used less memory than its predecessor.
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>Steve Ballmer>jewdeserves to be gassed and burnt just by virtue of being a kike
>>109868787Windows 8 was still better than 10. Just get a third party start menu and it runs fine.
>>109868775Pretty cool dude. Crazy it was hardly even 10 years ago when tech wasn't completely and totally jeeted from the top down.
>>109868830They really did. I will miss the old school American businessman types when they're gone.
>>109872684> Windows 8 UI was pretty goodIts so hideous I literally thought it was satire. I could not believe it was actually real.
>>109872684Win8's UI was pretty ass ngl. Backporting Metro onto Win32 just didn't work, but in the process of doing so, Microsoft essentially killed off the classic theme, turning it into the "high contrast" accessibility theme that's even uglier, and any attempt at bringing back the classic theme, even back on Win8, means breaking your system, then fixing it up. Win8 was when they fucked the classic theme codebase forever. Everything UI related in Win8 was a disaster. To this day there are leftovers of it in Win11 and they're probably the worst leftovers to have.
>>109873091>Its so hideous I literally thought it was satireThat's how I feel about Windows 10 and Windows 11 UIsI sure hope you don't think they're better than 8
>>109873685Fuck no. I had a literal panic attack a few years back when I tried to run windows 10 in a VM. In the end I settled on creating this cursed thing. A windows 2012 Server Core install with program manager, and a file manager I created myself based on the windows 2003 open file dialog.
>>109869223how them cholos 2x the amount of black ppls?
>>109868775I know his brother Ligma.
>>109868787And it just so happens to be the snappiest modern windows to date. Balmers mistake with Windows 8 was not including a classic desktop mode. Silly Blamer.
>>109868830I don't think Larry Ellison has a soul.
He was right about mobile being a shit avenue for techIt's an anti-tech tech, it's a road to mass idiocracy through pocketable terminals
>>109868830Coke drove productivity and innovation. Everywhere was better when everyone was on the right kinds of drugs. People think weed makes you "creative", man no it doesn't.
>>109868775DEVELOPERS
>>109873759>I had a literal panic attack a few years back when I tried to run windows 10 in a VMwhat are you talking about dudeit takes like 5 seconds to get win10 iot ltsc running in hyperv
>>109875572>his mistake was not including the windowsI guess everybody just assumed somebody else was adding the titular feature and it slipped his mind.
>>109876740The touch UI could have stayed but not in desktop mode since it was a pain in the ass to use with a mouse. A toggle between the two modes would have been kino.
>>109868835That type of work is now assigned to those of low caste because it is difficult. Easy work goes to high caste employees. Ability doesn't factor into any of it.
>>109876607I meant the UI was so hideous I had a mental breakdown trying to use it. That is why I went for server core, because the modern UI is not present.
>>109868830I want to go back
>>109868775Microsoft irreversibly lost the fight for mobile under his watch. Very little his successors could do to remedy that
>>109868775His biggest sins were refusing to admit he made a mistake, allowing Windows Phone to flop, and allowing Windows 8 to exist.
>>109870643any idea why that is?indexing also got worse from 10 to 11
>>109879106The slow destruction of search was for "performance" reasons. An actual exhaustive search was slow. So to trick people into thinking they were actually optimizing things they started having search skip looking in some places and at some file types. The means you can never trust search in newer versions of windows. In windows 2000 search was 100% thorough.
all i member is thatis he cared a lot about developers and developers he worried a lot
i made a drink the other day, 50/50 monster (preferably a lemonade flavor but zero ultra works fine) and sweet black teai call it the steve ballmer because it tastes like honey
>>109868874Their playday video is still peak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7PYQCXdX3A
>>109879999Checked and bee-pilled
I met Steve Ballmer once at a government IT conference when i was just starting out in the industry. This was about 2000 or 2001. I had no fucking idea who he was. Steve Jobs was the only face of Microsoft that I knew about. He asked me where I was from and I answered him honestly. He then said he knew someone there and made another anecdote and then said bye. A while later my boss asked me about the encounter. He had been watching my activities and behavior since I was the FNG. He told me he saw that I had spoken to one the honchos at Microsoft.
>>109882393I cant believe i said Steve Jobs I meant Bill Gates
/g/ is a balmer board
>>109870812>>109870890Back when I used Windows 7, I just used cygwin for any kind of filesystem search. I knew searching could take a long time so I just waited. I would put the results into a text file so I could grep at leisure, which was a very fast way to find the location of a particular file, and I had robust regexes to work with.
there have been more ballmerposters than normal lately, is there something going on with him?
>>109868775I don't really have any opinion on the guy and if he's the one who was in charge from 2000 to 2014 then he clearly has both some blunders and some really good products under his belt. I will say though that at least during his time the products MS made weren't as toxic and actively user-hostile as the shit they've been releasing since, even the stinkers MS released in his time were "honest" stinkers, like they were bad on a technical reason or were badly designed and poorly thought out, they weren't actively malicious towards their own users.
>>109884247based
>>109884247>>109885262>white and blue across the boardthey arent even trying to hide it
