{"id":134,"date":"2013-08-23T21:37:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T21:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2013-08-23T21:45:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T21:45:02","slug":"microsoft-due-to-have-a-changing-of-the-guard-ballmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/microsoft-due-to-have-a-changing-of-the-guard-ballmer\/","title":{"rendered":"#Microsoft due to have a changing of the guard&#8230; #Ballmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Ballmer has stated that he is off, leaving, done, finished&#8230; Did they shed a tear? Nope. The bought Microsoft shares hard pushing the price up 9%.<\/p>\n<p>The main reason, based on my reading, is that he was just too slow and didn&#8217;t know what the consumer wanted. With him at the helm the feeling was he just didn&#8217;t know which direction to go.<\/p>\n<p>There has been quite a few large releases since he took over, Silverlight, Vista, Windows 8 RT to name but a few. All of the ones named were either canned or panned&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting if they have someone already in mind. It will be more interesting to find out if they are in house or external.<\/p>\n<p>I will watch this story with a keen eye&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Ballmer has stated that he is off, leaving, done, finished&#8230; Did they shed a tear? Nope. The bought Microsoft shares hard pushing the price up 9%. The main reason, based on my reading, is that he was just too slow and didn&#8217;t know what the consumer wanted. With him at the helm the feeling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,10,25,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-technology","category-windows-2","category-windows-8"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mjsZ-2a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}