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Good. I think ~100% of Microsoft's problems stem from Steve Ballmer's culture of hatred towards all competition.

If you're a CEO/Executive and you use your competitor's products, you'll be in good shape to know their strengths and weaknesses. On the other hand, if you're like Steve Ballmer, you'll refer to your competition as "Cancer" and ban the use of all competitor's products. Then you'll never ever know that your products are 10 years behind, since you've intentionally prevented yourself from knowing that.

I think that "admits" in an odd word in the headline. I would be very, very worried if he didn't use Apple products.

Citations of Ballmer insanity:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_c...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-6055250-7.html

2001? man, you're hanging on to some old school hate. let it go, Ballmer's lack of impact has been made clear in the lost decade.

i know plenty of people that tote Apple products and work for Microsoft. many of these same people actually really love their job, and I think it shows that Microsoft is trying to get their innovation engine going again. They are close, probably make a few missteps, but I was once a Microsoft fan and root for them.

A big reason why I also buy Apple products is for the hardware design. I just ran across a new Lonovo and it still looked like a brick. Good luck to them in that regard...

>If you're a CEO/Executive and you use your competitor's products, you'll be in good shape to know their strengths and weaknesses

Didn't Cook and Schmidt recently say they haven't used the Surface at all?

No, at least for Tim Cook, he said he tested both Surface and Galaxy (second question from top of the page) http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-06/tim-cooks-fr...

Q: "Have you played with the Surface or Galaxy?"

Cook: "I have, yes. Both of those—and some others. What I see, for me, is that some of these are confusing, multiple OSs with multiple UIs [user interfaces]. They steer away from simplicity. ..."

Source: http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/85550-tim-cooks...

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