I think an insider will be better. And I would love to see Bill Gates back. Ballmer may have not been the right CEO considering the how the press view him. But his emphasis on developers it what I liked about him. I'm not talking that he was raging on scene about developers. I talk about his programs to bring developers on to the windows ecosystem. The stuff he did for students, the old dream build play contests for xbox 360 xna. If you recall Bill Gates was doing pretty much the same with storm the gates contests. Which was great. Many would argue with me but I found MS libraries and platforms to have very good architecture and to be well documented.
MS is what it is today because they didn't just made final products. They made some products and allowed you to improve them with plugins. You can code for office, you can code with bing services(through azure you can use the Bing ocr and all other services) and basically on their ecosystem you can most of the time do what MS does(exception maybe is the windows phone where you have some areas out of your control: SMS, phone calls, settings for security reasons). An outsider may transform MS in something more like Apple with emphasis on final product(devices) and services like in google case with less space for independent software vendors to exist in the ecosystem just to make investors happy and to drive tocks pries up.
So in the end I want a CEO that will allow Azure to get big and who won't kill DCOM or other so considered ancient software stacks just because of the pressure. Someone who won't bow and transform IE from an alternative standard browser in the market to another webkit browser just to please the tech press.
MS is what it is today because they didn't just made final products. They made some products and allowed you to improve them with plugins. You can code for office, you can code with bing services(through azure you can use the Bing ocr and all other services) and basically on their ecosystem you can most of the time do what MS does(exception maybe is the windows phone where you have some areas out of your control: SMS, phone calls, settings for security reasons). An outsider may transform MS in something more like Apple with emphasis on final product(devices) and services like in google case with less space for independent software vendors to exist in the ecosystem just to make investors happy and to drive tocks pries up.
So in the end I want a CEO that will allow Azure to get big and who won't kill DCOM or other so considered ancient software stacks just because of the pressure. Someone who won't bow and transform IE from an alternative standard browser in the market to another webkit browser just to please the tech press.
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