It will be interesting to see which Apple executives Microsoft tries to get to run the company. You know it’s going to happen. Apple has all the products that Microsoft wished it had.
Apple executives as Microsoft CEO
It will be interesting to see which Apple executives Microsoft tries to get to run the company. You know it’s going to happen. Apple has all the products that Microsoft wished it had.
maybe somebody from Blackberry
I think what’ll be interesting is the more stupid of the Mac media screaming “betrayal!” for years over it. 🙂
What about Forstall?
Whoever he’ll be don’t expect a short turnaround, it will take years to build a proper culture steer an elephant like MS.
That’s when I’d start feeling sorry for Microsoft.
If they are smart, they will start to copy Google now, not Apple. They have a chance to execute Google’s plan, they never had a chance to be another Apple.
Browett, anyone?
by the same token, it’ll be interesting to see who takes MS’s money and defects
Or maybe it’ll be Bill Gates, you know, the guy who saved Apple in the first place….[runs]
Scott Forstall!
Forstall! I can totally see it.
Tim Cook?
Scott Forstall! I can’t wait to see stitching around all the ‘metro’ boxes.
Indeed, Forstall would be a great for shacking things up/down.
Can you imagine…. if they manage to hire Scott Forstall? I would not be shocked if he sent his resume as soon as he heard the news.
Non-compete contracts make this unlikely, and further, an Apple exec at Microsoft may be akin to Ron Johnson’s experience at JCP. It’s hard to turn a stodgy old culture in a dynamic direction in a time from that will keep shareholders happy.
My wish (even if it is unlikely): Dual-CEOs, Jon Rubinstein and Roger McNamee. Should be enough to finish them off.
Scott Forstall, without a question.
Scott Forstall for MS CEO
Sinofsky returns.
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You mean the guy who almost buried Apple in the first place? Thats like shooting a person in the leg and calling yourself a hero for bringing that person to the hospital.
Not to mention the whole mirage of MS saving Apple was nonsense anyway. It was a patent settlement. Apple was a several billion dollar company at that point. 150 million was irrelevant. What Apple really got from the deal was the promise to keep producing Office on the Mac.
And what Microsoft got out of the deal was to keep Apple around so as to deflect the monopoly charges.
I’m guessing they’ll promote from within, or get someone from the outside from IBM, HP, etc…
on “stitched leather” stationery.
The new MS CEO needs to help Microsoft transform into this new functional structured organization. It sounds as though Forstall was starting to no longer accept the functional structure of Apple.
Sweet. I can see it now Windows 8.2 “green felt”.
It could be Scott Forstall! But is he allowed to work for MS? Do you guys think, that he ever would?
Not from Apple, but I could see the board bring back another Steven… Sinofski.
I hear Ron Johnson is looking for a new home… Match made in heaven?
Scott Forstall I can see him transforming windows in 3 years now that he in the wilderness finding him self after being kicked out of apple.
I heard the front-runners are Leo Apatheker and Gil Amelio. Microsoft “is like a ship with a hole in it” and it’s Amelio’s calling to get it “steered in the right direction”.
What about the hole though? Lol.
Microsoft’s board of directors might not realize that if he makes a good pitch.
Yes, always.
Partially.
I can’t wait to see the Svengali Eyes making presentations at CES.
For the stores?
The guy who bailed after Windows 8 and Surface launched? — Thats a horrible choice hahaha
John Sculley