Microsoft CEO Ballmer to be bounced in 2010? No way

I don’t make a habit of commenting on other pundits’ prediction lists. After all, a prediction is just a person’s opinion, and who knows what might happen in a year or 10….

But I am going to make an exception and call out one of Newsweek’s 10 Tech Predictions because I am 99.999 percent sure it’s out and out wrong. Newsweek claims Microsoft will oust CEO Steve Ballmer in 2010, the year of his tenth anniversary as Microsoft CEO.

Newsweek lists a number of valid criticisms about Microsoft: Its late-to-the-party arrival on search and MP3 players; its tanking Windows Mobile marketshare; the Vista “fiasco.” And yes, Ballmer was the top dog during all of these debaucles. Newsweek claims “investors must be getting restless” and will soon will “be calling for a shakeup.” (As readers aof this blog know, there already are a number of very vocal Ballmer critics, including a number of you, who’ve been agitating for a shake-up for a while now.)