Steve Ballmer : « Microsoft produces more than it sells»

Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, gave a speech on the state (bad) sales of the company, its employees, at a conference internally: he confessed "did not sell as many devices" that production volumes. He also gave a touch of optimism to motivate his team, before school starts.

  
 In a speech internally at Microsoft, Steve Ballmer confessed to employees that the company produced more than it sold. Moreover, production volumes were overvalued relative to demand, he announced referred to the Surface RT that is a failure in terms of sales. Recently, the firm has declined drastically the price of this tablet, which has led to a devaluation of inventories amounting to about 900 million.

The boss of the group also discussed the poor sales of Windows 8, indicating still need now to focus on the goals of the season as well as the fourth quarter, based on a range of products expanded further . The Windows Update 8.1 is for this purpose, highly expected. Steve Ballmer and his team also banking on its partnership with the Best Buy brand, which offers retail space dedicated to Windows 8 in stores to improve the image of the product to customers.