MS, both under Gates and Ballmer, have never ever been "innovators"
They copied the Mac OS with an inferior OS, Windows, and locked in businesses like IBM did prior to them.
They got lucky when Steve Jobs was fired from Apple.
They went around his company which was being led by idiots for 12 years, until Steve Jobs' returned in 1997.
Ballmer and MS basically applied IBM's strategy, "hegemony," to kill the competition and create a hostile and retaliatory corporate environment, both internally and externally.
It became worse when Ballmer, a boorish man, was left in charge.
I'm surprised that it's taken this long to catch up to him and Microsoft.
I'm not surprised that he and Gates made a ton of money copying the Mac OS.
However, if one followed Dediu's theory about computer and device manufacturers, hp and Dell wouldn't be on the verge of evaporating into the wind, they would be besting Apple, and they are not, far from it.
Eventually, Samsung will be where Dell and hp are now.
History will remember Steve Jobs and Apple, not the boorish thugs and imitators.
Steve Ballmer and the Innovator's Curse
Horace Dediu makes more sense in this article, the Rear view mirror, than he does on Steve Ballmer and Microsoft, The innovator's curse.
The rear view mirror
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