Whoever decided it would be a good idea to make a guy without any engineering or computer science education and just 2 years of experience working at a soap company before joining the company the CEO of Microsoft needs to be fired too.
But, Ballmer had nearly 20 years experience running teams in a large and successful technology company before he was became CEO.
Furthermore, the dude has a mathematics degree (with honors) from Harvard. That means that he probably earned an 'A' in Math 55, the hardest undergraduate course at Harvard[1], which implies that he would have no trouble keeping up with most of the theoretical computer science stuff.
For some reason I had it in my head that Bill and Steve took Math 55 together.
> While at Harvard, he met Steve Ballmer, who later succeeded Gates as CEO of Microsoft.
In the age of the web though, the market will now continue to out step Ballmer and whatever Harvard theoretical math he could throw at his developers developers developers developers.