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A letter from Steve Ballmer in Redmond's press release section confirms he is stepping down as a board member.
In the six months since leaving [the CEO position], I have become very busy. I see a combination of the Clippers, civic contribution, teaching and study taking a lot of time. I have confidence in our approach of mobile-first, cloud-first, and in our primary innovation emphasis on platforms and productivity and the building of capability in devices and services as core business drivers. I hold more Microsoft shares than anyone other than index funds and love the mix of profits, investments and dividends returned in our stock. I expect to continue holding that position for the foreseeable future.
Given my confidence and the multitude of new commitments I am taking on now, I think it would be impractical for me to continue to serve on the board, and it is best for me to move off.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Wednesday August 20 2014, @02:54PM
Or windows 7 ME
(Score: 2) by Daiv on Wednesday August 20 2014, @05:32PM
I just started involuntarily whimpering and crying at that thought...
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Friday August 22 2014, @08:12AM
Actually WinME was a damned good OS, it simply had a single flaw in the specs that doomed it...some asshat put down you could use both VXD and WDM drivers.../facepalm/
Ya wanna guess what happened if you took WinME and used ONLY WDM drivers? You got a nice stable OS that could be used for years without fail. I mean imagine what a mess you'd have if they had said Windows 7 could use Win98 drivers, that is exactly what happened with WinME. Luckily they learned from their mistake as one can take XP era WDM drivers and use them on Win 7 besides WDF drivers and the result? Works just fine.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by Daiv on Friday August 22 2014, @03:26PM
I had spent a good amount of money and time trying to put together the magical "perfect" Windows ME hardware box. I didn't succeed and fell back to Windows 98SE, which worked, every time.
The single flaw was enough to tarnish it's name forever as it was a HUGE, unforgivable flaw for an OS manufacturer who succeeded by allowing their OS to run on wildly different hardware from all kinds of manufacturers.
The wasted hours troubleshooting ME for people, trying to explain what drivers are, where they come from and how there was nothing I could do without them spending money on replacements for their perfectly fine hardware was an (admittedly small) reason for me to stop helping people with their PCs.
That single flaw turned into an absurd disaster. No amount of looking at the hypothetical best case scenario of what could have been will make me forget what I went through.