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[Caayn]

Atleast the Xbox press conferences will be more entertaining to watch. His conferences are Always fun to watch. And he isn't afraid to act a "bit" strange, or better act like himself, when he is in public.
Why are people doubting if can lead the Xbox division, when he is leading Microsoft?

 

[El Sincejas]

Never forget

 

[Joeki11a]

Holy crap, how is this guy CEO? Of Microsoft?

Tell me he does drugs. Please, tell me he does drugs.

He loves it man didnt you hear?

Wooooooo

 

[ThoughtsOfSpeaking]

It would be amazing if Allard came back on the condition that Microsoft greenlit the courier tablet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFQWc79TYcU


Never forget.

 

[Proelite]

Wasn't Ballmer initially against the OG Xbox?

Him and Gates were against the Xbox not having an onboard full featured Windows OS.

 

[Carlisle]

Haha, oh christ Ballmer. They better find someone quick to replace Mattrick.

I hear Yoichi Wada is looking for work.

 

[Blue Ninja]

Atleast the Xbox press conferences will be more entertaining to watch. His conferences are Always fun to watch. And he isn't afraid to act a "bit" strange, or better act like himself, when he is in public.
Why are people doubting if can lead the Xbox division, when he is leading Microsoft?

It's not like he's doing a particularly fine job.

 

[Joeki11a]

Him and Gates were against the Xbox not having an onboard full featured Windows OS.

Xbox one has Windows 8 right?

 

[TCRS]

 

[GitarooMan]

He's just on temporary oversight. Companies don't fill these important positions overnight.

 

[Joeki11a]

He's just on temporary oversight. Companies don't fill these important positions overnight.

He is The company and guy who will fill this position

Why shouldnt he have full control of this situation?

I have seen some nice Windows phones and tablets commericals

Pretty bold ones to, a Ballmer balls out Ad route with xbox would be

Fun

 

[dezzy8]

Does this man do coke or something?

 

[Amir0x]

Never forget

haha, he's standing like classic Megaman.

 

[ComputerMKII]

haha, he's standing like classic Megaman.

 

[SlipperySlope]

Did he just call IE a great product?

 

[Pristine_Condition]

Ballmar's a passionate guy. He oozes passion.

From those videos, he looks like he also oozes cocaine metabolites.

 

[clav]

Never forget

edit: beaten

 

[Joeki11a]

Never forget

Read his last name slowly

He cant stand any other way

 

[MaGlock]

Bill gates comes back just to run Xbox.

 

[Heretic]

Bring back Allard!

 

[Omikaru]

Well, at least his priorities are in the right place...

His priorities have since changed.

 

[DrForester]

Hopefully they can get Bender to play him again in the Xbox Movie.

 

[Joeki11a]

Bring back Allard!

Got one better

Major Nelson lol

 

[SenatorBot]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_cXBINgd1A

Gotta go fast

 

[Into]

We have known about MS restructuring their divisions around, and a videogame guy like Mattrick was never going to rule

The changes are aimed at cutting the number of disparate units and fostering cooperation between products so that Microsoft can better compete against Apple Inc. (AAPL) (AAPL) and Google Inc. (GOOG) (GOOG

The idea is to create 4 major divisions:

Enterprise business division
Hardware unit division <------- Xbox
Applications and services division
Operating-systems group

I never believed (nor did many others) that Mattrick would run the Hardware unit division, he is too "videogames" and someone with a broader set of talents would be needed. There wont be a "Xbox boss" anymore. Since that position no longer will exist

 

[Doffen]

Bring back Allard!

Mr. J looked so good here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SbTzFEEfiQ 0:09 guy with glasses!

 

[Monocle]

What if Stinkles is the new boss?

New?

 

[Killing_Joke]

So proud they completely flip flopped on the X1 initial vision.

 

[Walshicus]

Atleast the Xbox press conferences will be more entertaining to watch. His conferences are Always fun to watch. And he isn't afraid to act a "bit" strange, or better act like himself, when he is in public.
Why are people doubting if can lead the Xbox division, when he is leading Microsoft?

I don't think he'll be any more or less involved with Xbox in the mid-term; even if he has a handful of people reporting to him for Xbox rather than just Mattrick.

 

[SleazyC]

I would thoroughly enjoy him headlining a keynote at Gamescom.

 

[Doffen]

Are we now going to refer to Don as the Ex-Xbox boss?

 

[ramparter]

Never forget
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-cq1eEW_b0

 

[Absinthian]

Xbox does not need a new human CEO. The cloud knows all!!!

 

[Ace Harding]

Wait, Mattrick left to be CEO of Zynga? I mean I know its a CEO job and that's a major company but why in the hell would someone leave his post to do that?

Talk about a sinking ship.

 

[hodgy100]

This is something I can root for!

Developers Developers Developers !!!!

 

[Subv3rsi0n]

We released fantastic games, and, most importantly, we expanded Xbox to go beyond great gaming to deliver all the entertainment people want — sports, music, movies, live television and much more.

Ugh...

 

[Somnid]

Mattrick jumping ship to a sinking one is pretty bad but apparently MS didn't see it coming. It was also rumored he'd get a better position in Balmer's restructure. Sounds like a clusterfuck to me.

 

[Mindman]

So many Xbox execs have come and gone. Kinda scary for the division if you ask me.

 

[NoirVisage]

Sweating from his elbow pit...

Is.. Is that even possible?

 

[Can Crusher]

The consoles are incredible all-in-one devices with built-in services that consumers love, including Bing, Xbox Live, Internet Explorer, SkyDrive and Skype.

Ahaha oh man.

Now this is just incredible, I simply cannot wait to see how bad this ship is going to sink(or not) with Ballmer leading.

 

[BibiMaghoo]

Good luck Ballmer, and all the best to Don, even though he is a smug bastard

 

[Dany]

Ignoring balmers stage performance how is he as a CEO?

 

[javac]

God's in his Heaven. All's right with the world.

 

[jayu26]

Is.. Is that even possible?

If you leaved in India you would not be asking that question.

 

[QaaQer]

I know why many revile the man but why would this be such a bad thing?

dude is an alpha male all about power and money. games mean nothing to him.

 

[iMax]

His priorities have since changed.

Hahahaha brilliant!!

 

[ProfessorMoran]

Ignoring balmers stage performance how is he as a CEO?

MS share price has been stagnant for a long time and their core OS market is being increasingly in danger of falling prey to the likes of Apple and Google, and Ballmer hasn't been effective in dealing with those threats.

In other words, he's not especially great as a CEO, except for the fact that MS has had a a cashcow called windows and tons of cash reserve, but now their competitors have too (cash reserve that is).

 

[LiK]

Please get someone else stat.

 

[Can Crusher]

Him and Gates were against the Xbox not having an onboard full featured Windows OS.

How the hell would you check your email in such a console?!

 

[ironcreed]

LOL, never misses a beat.