alt Hacker NewsI wonder if this is another one of those "two sides of the same coins" situations: on the one hand I agree that Ballmer was too weirdly competitive, e.g. with Linux/etc., plus the cringey takes on the iPhone, Google, etc.
On the other hand Microsoft had a fire and passion that I don't really see anymore. I miss Developers, Developers, Developers. Now it's just ads, AI, blah.
> on the one hand I agree that Ballmer was too weirdly competitive
He was really the epitome of that, and that was the MO of Microsoft at the time. I always thought of him as the embodiment of that, the pinnacle, the ne plus ultra.