Excerpts from infamous mini-msft blog (in 2005 another msft employee venting anonymously):<p>"I mean, what has he done or not done that is impacting the stock?"<p>- along with Gates, made decisions that resulted in the company being found guilty of breaking the law twice(and counting)resulting in fines, restrictions...<p>- along with Gates, invested over $10B of cash in failed telecom investments that ended up being written off<p>- failed to make any meaningful investments at the bottom of the market crash when numerous companies were available for cheap..<p>- invested $10B's in various "emerging" businesses that even years later represent only about 10% of MSFT's revenue, aren't growing at even 10%..<p>- approved the onerous Licensing 6 program when many companies were hurting economically thereby pissing off a good portion of our customers and fueling the move to Open Source.<p>- has been at the helm as MSFT failed to take security seriously and then has had to drop everything to play catch up, missed the paid search move and had to play catch up, missed the move to web services and had to play catch up, missed the portable music wave and had to play catch up, let IE stagnate and had to play catch up, and now seemingly can't ship any major product on time even stripped of formerly core features (can you say Longhorn, CRM, SQL, VS, etc. etc. etc?).<p>Continued...<p><a href="http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2005/03/old-school-competencies.html#c111169237226667511" rel="nofollow">http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2005/03/old-school-competencies...</a>