Ballmer's purchase of Skype is akin to Burke sending those colonists out to check on a report of a derelict space craft.
"It was a bad call Ripley." Let's just hope Ballmer doesn't nuke the place from orbit on the way out.
"His continued presence is the biggest overhang on Microsoft's stock," Einhorn said at an investment conference Wednesday, according to a report from Reuters, which later added that a source close to Microsoft said directors still supported Ballmer. >link<
>Ballmer< has been at Microsoft since 1980 and was the first business manager hired by co-founder Bill Gates.
It is the end of an era -- the world has moved on.
He can't leave until he snatches a pebble from your hand.