Editor's Pick: Steve Ballmer's Excellent Android Adventure

Steve Ballmer's Excellent Android Adventure

Rob Enderle Dec 7, 2015 5:00 AM PT
	Steve Ballmer last week presented an interesting plan to kill Android -- or at least compete with it. What's ironic is that Ballmer's tenure at Microsoft wasn't short of good ideas -- it was short on execution. In contrast, Satya Nadella has shown strength in execution but -- so far -- hasn't come up with anything that represents the kind of risks that Ballmer was willing to take. [More...]

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