Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Steve Ballmer announces to retire from Microsoft in next 12 months

Steve Ballmer announces to retire from Microsoft in next 12 months on Thursday and the share increased by 6% on the same day.

Now Microsoft is looking for a new CEO. The new CEO is having a big challenge in front of him defining a proper strategy to catch up the lost strength over a decade to companies like Google, Apple, etc.

They lost billions of dollors by spending onBing search which never take off against Google search. Also they lost in cloud market, tablets and smart phones. It is going to be the responsibility of the new CEO io compete on every domain including their IE browser where they are loosing to chrome.

On office suit, still they have the on premise market share but their base in cloud is not so good. Many new vendors are there to take the market.

They have to look for a person like Morrisa Mayer present CEO of Yahoo. The contenders for the CEO of Microsoft includes, CEO of EBAY, seƱor VP of google Vic Gundotra who is taking care of social in Google. Vic was from Microsoft. Also there are few contenders from Microsoft itself like Qi lu, Tony Bates, and Satya Nadella.

It is time to see how a monopoli company is going to bounce back with the new CEO and compete with the present giants Google and Apple. Steve Balmmer should identify a correct visionary to lead Microsoft. Will Bill Gates be back as CEO of Microsoft?

Saravanan

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