He was the worst CEO in Microsoft’s long, storied history. Fortunately for Steve Ballmer, he was only the second but he acknowledges that it hasn’t been what he had expected.
When outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that he would retire after more than 30 years with the company, people wondered if he was pushed out.
After all, it has struggled against Apple and Google in the mobile marketplace so much recently that this became Ballmer’s biggest regret.