Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is taking Steven Sinofsky's departure as an opportunity to trash Microsoft's attempt at an iPad-killer, the Surface.
To understand Sinofsky's departure just use a Surface---its horrible.The software is terrible.The keyboards (touch or type) don't work.
— Marc Benioff (@Benioff) November 13, 2012
Take this tweet entirely at face-value. It's just Benioff jabbing at Microsoft, which is what he loves to do.
He previously said Windows 8 was the end of Windows. To which Microsoft's head of communications said, and we're paraphrasing here, Benioff is a blow hard. (Exact quote: "the only word that comes to mind is 'bloviate''.)
For the record, we don't think the Surface had anything to do with Sinofsky getting pushed out of Microsoft. It seems to be because Sinofsky couldn't play nicely with the other top execs at the company.
He is right that the Surface isn't very good though. So, maybe dropping Sinofsky means it gets better.
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