Imagine if Microsoft did install a crazy smart creative person to lead them. They can always keep business school twerps to do silly things like manage their existing lines of business. The CEO doesn't have to be a chair lunatic. They should be a CS lunatic.
Microsoft could be a thing to be feared again. Instead of innovating once every 10-15 years then milking their few products dry (and in 20 SKUs for each individual product), they can build out a 90% greenfield engineering business unit to tackle larger problems in the world. (Yes, that would require not including most current employees who have had their brains rotted and can't think in any other ways except Big Corp Big Process Patterns).
Microsoft could be a thing to be feared again. Instead of innovating once every 10-15 years then milking their few products dry (and in 20 SKUs for each individual product), they can build out a 90% greenfield engineering business unit to tackle larger problems in the world. (Yes, that would require not including most current employees who have had their brains rotted and can't think in any other ways except Big Corp Big Process Patterns).