Posts by adam hartung

Microsoft SLASHES 7,800 bods, BURNS $7.6bn off books in Nokia adjustment

In 2013 Forbes mag printed that Steve Ballmer was the worst American CEO http://onforb.es/188irDq. Now on the heels of latest layoffs and write-offs Forbes points out this is another action on a 3 year trek toward irrelevancy for Microsoft in its former "core" markets http://onforb.es/1TnX8rl

Ballmer and Softies sacrifice sleep to catch iPad

managing partner

Microsoft is so deeply entrenched in trying to defend its desktop/laptop business that it has missed all the market shifts to other ways of getting the job done. Their market sensing is horrible, and their tablet project is another effort to try defending the Windows 7 business rather than giving customers what they really want. http://bit.ly/bRuFMA

Dismal Q2 evidence of deeper problems at Motorola?

Zander is not the problem at Motorola

Mr. Zander is not the problem at Motorola. He has made significant improvement in a cantakerous bureaucracy, while fighting off a vulture in Icahn. What's needed at Motorola is more of what Zander did in his first 12 months - and definitely not a return to the old (failing) Motorola or the draconian proposals of Icahn. Read more at www.ThePhoenixPrinciple.com