MarketWatch's Herb Greenberg and Forbes analyst Adam Hartung, both selected Steve Ballmer as one of the worst CEOs of the year 2012.
Today, Hartung said in his article titled "Sell Microsoft NOW - Game over, Ballmer loses", that Microsoft’s monopoly over the personal computing industry had evaporated and the desire to upgrade products created by the Redmond-based technology titan had disappeared. The analyst expects to see Microsoft’s business declining even more in the upcoming years, so Ballmer’s retirement would be the only way to go.
"Failure is already inevitable. At this stage, not even a new CEO can save Microsoft. Steve Ballmer played ‘Bet the Company’ on the long-delayed release of Win8, losing the chance to refocus Microsoft on other growing divisions with greater chance of success," he said.
"No longer is Microsoft seen as a leader, and instead it is rapidly losing market relevancy as people look to Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, Facebook and others for leadership. The declining sales, and lack of customer interest will lead to a tailspin at Microsoft not unlike what happened to RIM," the analyst added.
Source: Adam Hartung, Forbes