Ballmer still all about India‏

Those who don't learn from history.......

Steve Ballmer laid off thousands and thousands of Americans and replaced them all in India. That has led to a big steaming pile of horse sh*t that nobody gives a crap about.

From respected leading technology company to complete laughing stock of Silicon Valley. For 11 years the stock has gone nowhere.

As recently as yesterday high profile investors are calling for Ballmer head.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/may/26/microsoft-boss-ballmer-must-quit-says-einhorn

How does he respond....

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/software/india-market-key-to-microsoft-future-says-ceo-steve-ballmer/articleshow/8586720.cms

More India....."Steve highlighted the importance of the Indian market " (He means Indias cheap labor)

"He also spoke of the Microsoft Mindz product which is a high-scale, high-storage application being used by leading Indian businesses like Wipro, Infosys" (Outsourcing companies that steal US jobs)

In conclusion, Steve said: "The key to life in tems of technol;ogy is to look forward , before anybody else beats you to it. (Which is amusing considering everyone beats Microsoft to everything (all the time). They are first to market with NOTHING! The company is perpetually playing catch up)

Cloud Computing will enable the use of IT more productively and it is imperative that India which is a major developer of computer programmes makes use of this technology." This is the winning strategy. More of the same.

Funny that Apple (who is actually the leader) doesn't follow this strategy. Steve Jobs thought about sending jobs to India and decided nahhh that is pretty dumb.

http://asiancorrespondent.com/30932/why-india-is-not-on-steve-jobs%E2%80%99-radar/

Contrary to Microsoft’s Bill Gates, who was early to spot and exploit engineering talent, Jobs’ Apple Computers is one of the biggest technology companies that doesn’t seek it. (And they lead as a result.)

Apple considered hiring several thousand engineers for a development centre in Bangalore but eventually abandoned the plan. It briefly ran a call centre in Bangalore before Jobs pulled the plug because of complaints from users. Apple really suffers as a result........