{"id":59821,"date":"2013-09-27T13:13:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T17:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2021-08-17T19:49:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T23:49:05","slug":"farwell-to-steve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/farwell-to-steve\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to Steve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geeky-gadgets.com\/steve-ballmers-final-good-bye-microsoft-24-08-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"farewell steve noopener to noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Farewell to Steve\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geeky-gadgets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/steve-ballmer.jpg?resize=69%2C82&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Farewell to Steve\" width=\"69\" height=\"82\" \/><\/a>Now that\u00a0<a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft&#8217;s<\/a> (<a title=\"NASDAQ | MSFT\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/symbols\/NASDAQ-MSFT\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSFT<\/a>) CEO <a title=\"Steve Balmer\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/steven_ballmer?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steve Ballmer<\/a> is on his farewell tour. <a title=\"GigOM\" href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GigaOM<\/a> has an article &#8220;<a title=\"In Defense of Steve Ballmer\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210731081257\/https:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/09\/11\/in-defense-of-steve-ballmer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>In Defense of Steve Ballmer<\/em><\/a>&#8221; it&#8217;s an interesting read. However, I plan to commemorate <a title=\"Farmington Hills MI\" href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/dI6Tt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Farmington Hills&#8217;<\/a> own Steve&#8217;s departure from MSFT in his own way.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EtuDS0ntaJY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on <a class=\"broken_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rb48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ralph.bach.14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rbach48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Microsoft&#8217;s (MSFT) CEO Steve Balmer is on his farewell tour I will commemorate Farmington Hills own Steve&#8217;s departure from MSFT in his own way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3044,32,1920,19,82,421,556,445],"class_list":["post-59821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-3044","tag-business","tag-farmington-hills","tag-michigan","tag-microsoft","tag-msft","tag-steve-ballmer","tag-windows"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59821"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127767,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59821\/revisions\/127767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}