Re this weird Google video attacking Microsoft. Fire Ballmer.

Fire Ballmer. Fire Ballmer now. 

I know I'm still another voice in the Fire Ballmer chorus. I know the stock has been a flatline for this millennia. But, damn...he's simply not the right man for the job.

He has numerous skills. But leading Microsoft through the smartphone wars is not one of them.

Which is almost *exactly* what I wrote yesterday when discussing that odd psuedo-humorous video Microsoft put out about Google Docs.

It's a fun if not altogether funny assault by Microsoft on Google. More specifically, on Google's efforts to offer a Microsoft Office competitor. 

The problem is not that Microsoft is right about this, which they are.

Nor is the problem that the video itself is just peculiar.

The problem, of course, is that Microsoft actually has to do this. 

They still -- still! -- have no viable competitor to Android and iPhone.

A day later and how does Google respond?

With their own not-quite-so-clever video retort? With finger pointing?Legalese?

No. Something far more powerful. A video that shows an updated version of their product working on Android smartphones (and the mythical Android tablet).

There is time for Microsoft. They have the resources, products and ability. But every day they fall still further behind. Ballmer must go.