Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak disses Microsoft and its CEO Steve Ballmer in an interview with BBC News, saying in effect Microsoft has lost its edge for innovation.

"I think that in some kind of real dollar terms, Microsoft has been falling," he said. "For quite a long time, they've been resting on markets they built a long, long time ago. That's pretty dangerous."

Wozniak also had scant praise for Ballmer in his BBC appearance. "I don't know how the world judges Steve Ballmer, but I don't think his time there was as important, as significant as Bill Gates.'"

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Wozniak said he supported Apple's current CEO Tim Cook. He said those who have criticized Apple's recent pace of new product introductions should realize that "great advances for mankind don't happen every year."

The Washington Post also weighed in — or perhaps piled on — after Ballmer announced his resignation last week.

"He does seem to have been hobbled by a limited understanding of the technological revolution that was destroying his empire," wrote Post columnist Timothy Lee about Ballmer.

Lee said that while Apple co-founder Steve Jobs thought tablets and smartphones represented a new kind of computing platform, Ballmer "saw the tablet as just another kind of PC, and so he built a single OS [operating system] designed to work both on tablets and on desktop PCs."

The result is that Apple sold 14 million iPads in its most recent quarter, while only about 2 million Windows tablets were sold, Lee noted.

AllThingsD reported Ballmer's departure might not have developed as seamlessly as believed.

"While the decision to go seems to have technically been Ballmer's, interviews with dozens of people inside and outside the company, including many close to the situation, indicate that he had not aimed to leave this soon and especially after the recent restructuring of the company that he had intensely planned," AllThingsD's Kara Swisher wrote.

Instead, she said, unnamed sources disclosed Ballmer's timeline was "moved up drastically — first by him and then the nine-member board, including his longtime partner and Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates — after all agreed that it was best if he left sooner than later."

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