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2 Jun 2025 Acquired The Steve Ballmer Interview
“I was a CEO, Bill’s got to take a lot of accountability. It was the mistake of mistakes.”
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- 2 Jun 2025
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- The Steve Ballmer Interview
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…He’s working on Longhorn at this point because it’s post XP. Which was a mistake. Longhorn was a big mistake. I have to take accountability. I was a CEO, Bill’s got to take a lot of accountability. It was the mistake of mistakes. Between the company, Bill and I disagreed about whether we should do hardware. That was a big one. We did. Surface was a big disagreement. Phone, big disagreement. HoloLens, big disagreement. What about Azure? Were you aligned?…
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