Balmer regrets ignoring the phone

Good ole Steve, reminding everyone what an horrible CEO he was and how he missed an entrance into a booming marketplace, the smart phone. This time, they're not going to be able to dominate the market, it's already to entrenched with IOS and Android. Ballmer, who took over from co-founder Bill Gates as CEO in 2000, did acknowledge that under his leadership the company was too focused on Windows to realize that Apple Inc.’s iPhone was revolutionizing computing. “If there’s one thing I regret, there was a period in the early 2000s when we were so focused on what we had to do around Windows that we weren’t able to redeploy talent to the new device form factor called the phone,” said Ballmer. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/tech-news/microsoft-ceo-regrets-ignoring-that-new-technology-the-phone/article14432035/ -- No, I didn't. Honest... I ran out of gas. I... I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake.......