How Steve Ballmer may have just agreed with Android co-founder for Bill Gates being responsible for Microsoft losing $400 billion-plus in smartphone war
Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft recently admitted how overconfidence in Windows prevented the software giant from capitalizing on the smartphone market. Speaking on the Acquired podcast, Ballmer said, “We were too confident,” as he reflected on Microsoft’s past strategy of pushing Windows into markets where it didn’t fit, instead of building solutions tailored to specific platforms. His remarks echoes with Android co-founder Rich Miner who – earlier this year – attributed Microsoft’s loss of smartphone wars to Android to Bill Gates’s decision.
