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... with the Kinect because MS seems quite attached to it or they like attaching it to things ... Maybe they will say *uck it Let's Pwn this Gen and give it all at 399 but I dunno...
Major Nelson should take his place
They could do a lot worse. Major Nelson has a sense of humor at least and does indeed have the enthusiasm needed.
Hmm, There are 3 major options for the reason for this move.
It was planned several weeks / months ago. evidence - CEO hires typically take time.
Don is the fall guy for the back pedal, which would fit with the above post.
My personal favorite is Ballmer said drop the DRM, and Don said FU Ima outie. I could definitely see ballmer being ball-less with regard to the DRM.
All this would point to the pre-order situation being as dire as people suspected. MS must have got hold of some hard numbers that turned ballmer's dollars red. And so, the axeman cometh.
Given he walked into a CEO position, it's likely this has been planned for weeks or months. I wouldn't start assuming it's related to the PR gafs.
Given the state of Zynga, I don't think it would have been a hard sell to gently deliver someone who is basically good at their job, but needs to be removed or become a scapegoat in order to reassure investors, in quite short order. After all it's been a week since E3, that's long enough to do some fast negotiation.
I think BoardBonobo has a point. Either Microsoft knew what could happen and wanted him to leave beforehand or they let him lead the Xbox One launch and something happened when they saw the results.
Of course if he knew he was going to leave that might explain his lack of passion and his absent-minded attitude during and after the Xbox One's presentation --but then maybe Microsoft wouldn't use him as a candidate to launch the console.
His lack of PR skills when he was telling people something along the lines of "you don't need our console if..." -need is a key of marketing- might be related to his scatterbrain attitude, I don't know.
Now he is jumping into an allegedly sinking ship and I wish him good luck. Question is..., why would he do that when he was earning so much money at Microsoft and ONLY Ballmer was his superior?
Because being CEO means you only have the board of directors as your boss and it also means making significantly more money.
Anyone who thinks he was fired from MS and somehow magically was able to walk into a CEO position in under 2 weeks is sadly mistaken.
Anyone who thinks he was fired from MS and somehow magically was able to walk into a CEO position in under 2 weeks is sadly mistaken.
I think Albert Penello is a better choice now. His twitter has the Space Battleship Yamato from "Star Blazers" ( here in the States that is ). That's the kinda guy you want running Xbox now.
https://twitter.com/albertpenello
Even money says MS does bump this guy up.
Most likely scenario, Microsoft re-org has been rumored for months, Mattrick had an inkling he wasn't going to be promoted, so he shopped around for a new job under the covers and came away with the Zynga job. He did actually have a swan song which Steven Sinofsky, Scott Forstall, or Andy Rubin never got in the letter retracting Xbox One DRM though, so it seems he left things better than what it could have been
pMax
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I do not believe you can get CEO in 1 week - that's just not possible.
At the same time, you would **NEVER** leave your job few months before your beloved baby comes out.
...so he got kicked by the broken copy of Gates.
If he got CEO position, it is likely that he was disagreeing with MS's restructuring, and already looking/discussing for a different challenge...
But definitely you don't leave your dept now, it has no sense.
At the same time, you would **NEVER** leave your job few months before your beloved baby comes out.
...so he got kicked by the broken copy of Gates.
If he got CEO position, it is likely that he was disagreeing with MS's restructuring, and already looking/discussing for a different challenge...
But definitely you don't leave your dept now, it has no sense.
Outside companies were unlikely to know about the re-org, so it would only look like him judt shopping for a new job. And I would bet the Xbox One hasn't even been unveiled while he had serious discussions with Zynga, so it didn't look like he had any negative reason to leave yet.
Leaving after he would have gotten demoted would have definitely looked worse.
pMax
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Aaaah, yeah, he might know he would have been demoted and looked for better alternatives.
Yeah, that's definitely the most probable route it took.
Every time a landmark point in a company's ventures occurs and someone leaves, everyone assumes the leaving is related to the situation. Chances are if you are near the end of a big project, you'll stay with it until it's finished, and then move on, unless you are jumping ship because you feel it's a disaster and don't want to be associated with the product or deal with the post-release flak. As others say, Mattrick wouldn't just send out his CV to a few places and land a CEO job within a couple of weeks. this would have been discussed from some time back, no doubt including his departure strategy from MS (he'll be contracted in to give x months leave so MS can organise a replacement).
It may be that this a Nokia-style deal? MS allow the exec to leave/parachute him in to save the company, in order to further MS strategic aims.
Developing casual games for the XB1 app/cloud? or some form of exclusivity for Farmville/whatever?
But who would let a guy in such situation introduce their next "big" thing? Makes no sense to me either.
P.S. But then I don't think their obvious PR problems could be avoided by better spin doctoring. It's virtually impossible to sell their product and its policies to smell like roses. The core problem was that they let that even happen in the first place.
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